Family and Friends,
This month we had several meetings with the Baseball Association of Peru. BellShoals church in Florida is coming in January 2010 to lead a baseball clinic. There should be between 150 - 175 young boys and teenagers attending this event. The President of the Baseball Association asked the team leaders of the clinic to include moral/values from the Bible at the clinic to help build the character of the young men.
The Prince Mission Church in Miraflores is continuing to grow. God is allowing this small church to be involved in a lot of various outreach activities.
The end of Oct and Nov are busy months in the Nikkei community in Lima. There are many Matsuri celebration events. Matsuri means festival or holiday in Japanese. Many of these events have their origin in a Shinto or Budhist reason. The November 15th event in Japan was began because of the belief that children of certain ages have bad luck and that they needed to go to the Shrines to pray for protection.
The Festivals today in Lima have a mixture of food, music, vendors, etc and I am sure for some there is a time to pray against bad health. There is also a lot of Saki. Different music groups perform anything from pop or rock to traditional Japanese music.
Please pray for the Nikkei that they would come to understand that there is a Creator God that loves them.
The Mitchell's
