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
