Pointettia

Ever wonder if there is a place in the world where poinsettia grow more than a week or two around Christmas...that is outside of Santa's Workshop, of course.

Well stop your wondering...it's here in Peru. Here is what happens when a poinsettia is given freedom to run a muck down here:

I Smell a Rat

While I've never actually seen a rat near our home. This is the sign that was placed in the park outside of our home im Lima. It says they are "we are de-ratifying" the area.

Normally we are quicker to turn a noun into a verb in English, but I have to give it to the Peruvians. I like this verb. I don't however like the fact that the park outside our house is in need of deratification.

Gomez Update

We want to thank all of you for your prayers for the Gomez family in the death of Greg here in Peru on Saturday as a result of a bus accident. Please continue to pray for them and for the REAPSouth Team and the other summer missionaries who are dealing with Greg’s tragic death. Claudia and Lydia arrived back in Lima yesterday and are being checked out by doctors here.

Several Baptist agencies have released information about the accident. Below is a link for the news story posted by the Illinois Baptist State Association. At the bottom of the story, there is a mailing address for the Gomez family if you would like to send a card.

http://www.ibsa.org/

We will send information about the funeral arrangements as soon as they are made.

Prayer Request

Please pray with us for the family of one of our summer missionaries, Greg Gomez. Greg arrived here in Lima the end of May with 60 other summer missionaries to serve on the REAP South Team. Since then he has traveled around southern Peru with a team researching unreached micro people groups. Yesterday afternoon Greg was traveling on a public transportation van near the town of Abancay with another summer missionary and a Peruvian national who also serve on the REAP South team. The van was in an accident and Greg died of head injuries.



Greg is from Illinois and recently graduated from Old Miss University with an engineering degree. Greg’s family was on a trip and weren’t notified until late last night. Please pray for peace for his family and friends. Also, please pray for the two young ladies who were in the accident.


Please pray for the other summer interns. Many of them are in hard to reach places and don’t even know about the accident yet. Pray for the REAP South team and our mission leaders who are ministering to the family in the U.S. and working with Peruvian officials here.

Arnold is about to turn the BIG 4-0!

Hey Friends,

On Tuesday, July 8th, Arnold will be turning 40. I, Susie, will have just left for the states, Alisha will be in the states and Ben will still be on a mission trip translating so it will be just him and Patrick here to celebrate. Please be a part of making his 40th birthday great by contacting him in some way to wish him a happy birthday.

Love you all and I hope to get to see many of you in a few days. I will arrive on the 8th of July at 3:00 in Baton Rouge.

See you soon!
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Susie