Mitchell Family in U.S. until June 2010

Our last few Saturday nights with the Nikkei SAN(Business Association) where we teach English went very well. We met many new people and had several great conversations. A few highlights were a student told me how much he was enjoying studying the Bible and another student asked me to pray for her family. Plus we went to another association that I did not even know existed.

Our family came home in shifts throughout the summer. The first of the kids in July. Joy and Caleb in August and Tim in September. The kids have settled into school and are finishing football season. We are adjusting to the climate and the rain. (It doesn't rain in Lima.) We have had the opportunity to meet and bump into many friends and family. It is wonderful to see everyone. We hope to see lots of folks between now and June 2010.

We are here so that are kids can connect with their home culture and we can all see family and friends. (There just isn't enough time.) (Gray is a sophmore in college, Caleb is a senior in high school, Jacob is in the 10th grade and Luke is in the 7th grade.)

We are also here so that we can encourage people to pray for the needs in Peru. It is important for us to be praying for the Japanese, the Nikkei and all the Peruvians. Tim is speaking at several churches and mission events to help facilitate people understanding our mission and how they can pray.

If you need a speaker for a missions event please call or e-mail.

Please pray for the mission church in Miraflores. They are reaching out into the community in many ways.

God's Blessings and Peace,

The Mitchell's

Cell in the U.S. 678.910.3179

July Mission trips in Peru

Pictures from CALEB's trip.....

In July Caleb and Tim have been to the jungle on mission trips. They both traveled over very difficult roads and in boats. The Gospel was shared and many people accepted Jesus.

We saw God move in a great way. Please continue to pray. Caleb is now in the states with his brothers and our families.

Please pray for the new believers. Please pray for those who heard and the Lord is dealing with their hearts.

Today is July 28th, Independence Day in Peru. Pray for the Holy Spirit to convict men of their sins and repent.

Thank you for your prayers. We just found out that we will be able to live in the same home when we return. This is a great blessing for our family. It will be much easier on the moves and transition back and forth for our 10 months in the states. Please pray for us as we are in a time of transition.

The Mitchell's

July 19, 2009 Mission Trips

Stephens Baptism servic July 18th at the beach in Lima. The water is a tad cold.

Pleaase pray for our family as we transition back to the states for the coming school year. We will be living in Athens and the kids will be going to Prince Ave Christian School. This will be Caleb's Senior year, therefore, next June when we return to Peru we will have a little less luggage.

Jacob and Luke are in Atlanta visiting with family and friends.


Please continue to pray for the Nikkei and our relationships with the members of the SAN association as we teach English classes.

We have several praises at the Prince Mission in Miraflores. Stephen was baptized this weekend. Last Sunday Stephens brother and aunt accepted Christ. An employee at another restaurant has confirmed a decision he made recently and also desires to be baptized.

Caleb is on a mission trip this week into the jungle at a place called Anapate. Please pray for this group as their travel and share the gospel.

Also a mission team from Prince Ave will be arriving Sunday night the 19th for a week of teaching and evangelism in the Tarapoto area of Lima.

Please pray for the Holy Spirit to work in the lives and hearts of the people we will meeting and be sharing with.

thanks for your prayers.

Also, for the final logistics, Caleb returns to Lima the 26th and leaves that same day for Atlanta. Joy will arrive in Atlanta Aug 4th and Tim Sep 2nd. We very much appreciate your prayers.

We will live in the same house when we return. We are packing things up and hoping to prevent mold and mildew while we are gone. Lima is very humid and damp certain months of the year.

Tim Mitchell

Lima Peru

May Update: June 3, 2010

Prayer needs in Lima:

We have recently moved into the time of nieblina in Lima. This is the beginning of winter and the days where we experience a thick fog and humidity. The fog and the difficulty seeing represents the spiritual state of the city. Many people are lost in a spiritual fog.

One great prayer need is for the families of Lima. Most people have not had an experience of growing up in a christian God based loving home. Thus when a person becomes a christian they are in the midst of a very different culture. We need to pray for new believers to be able to demonstrate the love of God through their words and actions to their family members.

We received a phone call from another missionary family about a friend they had made in Lima. We called the number they gave us and we now have also met a new Nikkei lady Rosa, who accepted Christ as a young girl and married a man who became a baptist pastor. Her father encountered a baptist missionary when she was a little girl and all of her family became christians, but most of her extended family: cousins, aunts, uncles etc have not made this decision. Rosa called today and asked us to pray for Nicolas her husband who is having problems with a hernia.

Please pray for the Nikkei. Pray for Lucho, Chio, Diana, and Roberto. Please pray also for ways for us to help Rosa with building relationships and friendships with her family to help share the Gospel with them.

Please pray for the mission in Mira Flores. Tim recently took the bus to Trujillo to meet with one of the members family. In the afternoon we visited family members to share with them about the upcoming bible study that night. Some of the family members were not open to talking about salvation. But many are open. We met Evert's brother in law in this process Thursday afternoon and after hearing the Gospel he made a decision to receive Christ as his personal saviour. That night at the Bible study we had a good group and the family ended the study talking about how they could begin having a study on a regular basis. Please pray for this family.

This past month we also have had another young man start attending our midweek training groups and attending church. His name is Percy. We also had a young man named, Esteban receive Christ at the Saturday university group study. His mother is a member at Carlos Baca's church in Athens.

FAMILY:

Please pray for our health as the weather changes and we adapt to the colder and damp weather. Please pray for the kids as they finish the school year. Please pray for us as we prepare to return to the U.S. for the next school year. We will be returning for Caleb's senior year of high school. There are several mission events upcoming. There are many details to process in storing our things (clothes, furniture,appliances,books, etc.). Lima has a lot of problems with mold and mildew in the winter months.

Please pray for the new believers in Mira Flores as they are growing in a lost city.

Thank you for your prayers.

God's Blessings and Peace,

Tim Mitchell

timandjoy@pobox.com

Lima, Peru

March and April Update

April 19, 2009

The Highlights of March:
1) We had a mission team in Lima from Lake Country Christian School. They are from the Dallas Ft Worth area of TX. We did many different activities during the week they were in Lima. The main focus of the trip was using English teaching opportunities as a ministry. We worked in several different schools. One of these was an introduction to a Nikkei school in the northern section of Lima. We also spent a day in a poor area of the city where children had brain damage from inhaling toxic fumes where the factories are working with lead. This is a very sad and difficult situation. There does not appear to be an easy solution to this problem. I am grateful to the flexibility of the team from TX and the love and concern they shared to all the students we encountered in this week.
2) We also had a visitor in from Japan April 1-5. Gary Fujino, who is a missionary in Japan came to South America to help with the research of how best to place the Nikkei people in the new IMB structure. We spent several days interviewing Nikkei people and visiting different parts of the city to meet many of them. The week ended with a trip to Sao Paolo, Brazil to have a preliminary presentation of the results of the research Gary did while in Peru and Brazil. We need to determine the best place to incorporate the Nikkei people into our new organizational structure.

Please continue to pray for our health, our church in MiraFlores, and the Nikkei people and opportunities to reach them.

Tim Mitchell

Back in Lima

Today is March 1st. Carlos Baca and Tim returned from our Trujillo trip Friday morning. We started Thursday with a sharing and prayer time with Marlene. Marlene is Everts cousin, she is the only other christian member of his family.

We had lunch with Everts father, wife, oldest daugher and his sister and her husband. Thursday evening we shared the Gospel with about 30 members of Evert's family. Eight of his family members including his father accepted Christ.

Carlos preached today in our church's new location. We were able to rent the fifth floor of an office building at the intersection of Benavides and Republica de Panama. We had 23 people in the service. For the last two months we have been meeting in the park or at Jesus' house.

Please pray for the new believers in Trujillo and all of the Nikkei and Japanese ESL students in Lima. Please pray for our mission in Mira Flores. We have seen God move in these last few weeks. Many prayers have been answered. Please continue to pray.....

Blessings and Peace,
The Mitchell Family

Cuzco Trip

Today is Feb 20. Jerry, Joe, Carlos and I are in The Sacred Valley of the Incas. We are doing pastor training and evangelism events. We have visited many churches and encouraged many believers in the churches. The Lord has worked and many people have prayed to receive Christ. Yesterday we were able to find the parents of two of the members of our church. This was a great opportunity to visit family members from our mission church in Mira Flores.

In most of the various events we used translators from English to Quechua or Spanish to Quechua. A young man named Josue or Joshua that was serving as one of the translators accepted Christ today as well. God moved in many peoples lives.

Please pray for the training sessions, church services, the new believers and those that rededicated their lives to the Lord.

Tim

FEB 12, 2008 THE MITCHELL MOMENT

The Kawasaki Family at our house in San Isidro. They are Baptist Missionaries from Japan also working in Peru with the Nikkei and Japanese.
All of the other pictures are Nikkei friends from the Nikkei Business Association where we teach ESL. This is the Matsuri celebration. (Japanese Festival)

PEOPLE and Ministries to pray for:

After our baptism service we were asked to discontinue meeting at the restaurant. The church is currently meeting at the park.

Joy has a Japanese ladies ESL class that meets in our home on Thursday mornings.

Tim and Joy both teach ESL at a Nikkei business association on Saturday night. We are making many friends there. The President of the organization told us this past weekend that he wanted to discuss with us about teaching more classes. (The names of our most regular students are: Lucho, Chio, Diana, Roberto, Rut, & Ricardo)

Tim teaches ESL on Monday afternoons at a Collegio America. (Guillermo Yoshikawa is the principle)

Nikkei prayer meeting is Tuesday afternoons.

Tim and Joy have Nikkei students we are now tutoring: Hiro, Daisuke, and Roberto. (More of the Nikkei speak Japanese than we first thought. Also, the Buddhist tradition really comes through in their world view as you talk and have more indepth discussions.)

Tim is teaching a Discipleship class Friday mornings for the Prince Mission members.

Our kids started back to school this week.

B&P,
The Mitchells in Peru