Nikkei Decision

Dear Family, Friends (Prayer Supporters),

Saturday night we had our first Nikkei to make a decision for Christ. Please pray for M as she begins her walk with the Lord...

Thanks for your prayers for the Nikkei. God opened M's heart. After our opening devotional at a ESL class she had questions about scripture and the conversation naturally went to presenting the plan of salvation. (Please continue to pray!!!

We have had visitors at church every service since the beginning of April... Please continue to pray for all of these visitors and people seeking to know God.

We had Alan Crosby of Living Word Baptist Church, Bogart, GA, in town in April. We had some great meetings with a couple of the Nikkei schools. There is a great potential for ESL or VBS in English in these schools. Many doors were opened during this week. Pray for Bible studies to start, decisions for Christ and for a new church in this area of Lima.

Please pray for the Nikkei and please pray about being involved in local or international missions with your church.

Blessings and Peace,
Tim & Joy Mitchell

Opportunities

Around every corner is the possibility of a new opportunity. As some of the doors close as we share with the Nikkei God is always opening new doors. We will be having an 11th grade Japanese girl live with us until she graduates from the local American style school. Please pray for her and her family as they will be moving to another country this weekend. We have known this family almost since we arrived in Peru.

Over the next few weeks we will be praying with Living Word Baptist Church over the city of Lima and ministry opportunities.

We are still making contacts from the Baseball Clinic or bumping into people we met at the clinic. SEE videos from the clinic: includes baseball instruction, testimonies, bible stories, etc. We had a great week of ministy in January. People clearly heard the gospel and the team clearly shared with kind hearts and spirits.
Jacob has made a few short videos of the camps.

Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/user/PeruBaseballMission?feature=mhum

Youtube email: perubaseballmission@gmail.com

Youtube password: perubaseball

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Recently I just bumped into a couple of the coaches and shared this site. We are also in the process of sending this out to all of the players via e-mail... with invitations to study the bible in english.

We will be meeting with the Directors of some of the Nikkei schools to talk about English Camps or possible needs that they might have.

Lets all pray that God would speak to our heart about how to reach the people of the world.

One prayer requests I have is that families in the states would feel called to host a Nikkei student for a month in their home to help them improve their English and see how a Christian family lives. (What a great ministry opportunity to expose a young person to God's love.) Isn't it interesting how God answers prayer sometime, We have been given the opportunity to receive a Japanese 11th grader in our home in Peru.

Especially pray for Japan and the Japanese people at this time....
This site below will have lots of updates about Japan.

Please also point your supporters to our EAP website http://eastasianpeoples.imb.org/ where we will launch a Japan in Crisis page before April 1 featuring the calendar, an interactive map, and other pertinent materials. Many related prayer requests and stories are already posted on the site’s home page.

God's Blessings and Peace,
Tim

The Sacred Valley: Two months/Two Mission Teams

We were blessed to have another mission team from Prince Ave visit Peru. For those of you considering going, please pray through the possibilities. I can't remember ever going on a bad mission trip. Our experiences have all been good.

Our English classes and friends we have built through those is going well. Please pray for these students and that they would come to know God. This post contains pictures from the Sacred Valley area near Cusco. This is the region of Machu Pichu. This is the first time that Jesus and Tim were both able to go with the mission team from Prince together. Recently a Retired Baptist Pastor has been attending our church. He preached in Lima the Sunday we were both gone. The team was divided into tow groups that were focused on lay leader and pastor training during the day and evangelism events in the evening. These events were either in the town square or in the churches or a soccer court. Many people rededicated there lives, came for prayers for medical issues, came for council or made decisions for Christ. It was a great week.

Joy will be returning to the states for about two - three weeks in March to have an outpatient skin cancer appointment. Please pray that this goes well and the Doctor is able to remove all of this cancer. This procedure is not available in Lima and it is recommended that it be done as soon as possible.

Please prayerfully consider being a member of an international mission trip. There are many children in the private schools and public schools that would welcome a mission team that came from the states. The mission trip could be focused on something as simple as a basic youth VBS week in English. Many of the same materials or stories,events, activities that you would plan to do for your summer VBS would work in Lima. Also, please remember,The Peruvian school year starts in March and ends in Dec. Therefore our summer is typically in the middle of the school year.

As always we thank you for your prayers. We saw God at work in many different ways a few weeks ago in the mountains of Peru. Many people had the opportunity to hear the Gospel. That is one of the keys to the Great Commandment: Go and Share...

As you pray for Joy and her surgery. Please pray that Tim, Jacob and Luke survive without her for a few weeks.

God's Blessings and Peace, The Mitchells

The Sacred Valley

We are in the middle of summer. The High is 82 and the Low is around 70. We have had only a few hours a day of warm weather. This year we have actually had mist many days of the summer. Thus it has not been very warm. Tommorrow we have a mission team coming in from Prince Ave Baptist Church. We will be spending a week in the Urabamba Area near Cusco. This is the center of the Inca civilazation. We will be at roughly 10,000 - 15,000 feet depending on the village. Please pray for the mission team next week as we will be doing pastor and layleader training during the day and evangelism events in the evening. The weather in Cusco is very different than Lima. It is winter there and this is the rainy season. Please pray for all of the people that we meet. For the pastors and the lay leaders pray that we are able to help them with a conference on Stewardship. And for all the lost people we encounter during the day and especially at the evangelism events pray that the Holy Spirit will work in their hearts and lives. Gray and Caleb are well into their school semesters and Jacob and Luke started Wednesday. Please pray for the follow up of the Baseball Clinic. We are trying to work with people via pictures and videos of the training. Jacob has been editing the film and putting together the training topics. We plan to post them on YouTube. We are able to include some of the Bible Stories and Testimonies. Thus using baseball as a bridge to share the Gospel. We have encountered people with various needs through the clinic. Please pray for all of these people.

If anyone feels called to come to Peru and work with us to engage the Nikkei you would be very welcome. Please call or email and we can discuss the possibilities.

Blessings and Peace,

Baseball Clinic Pitctures

Baseball Clinic 2011

The year ended with Joy and Tim attending the Nikkei Christmas Party. We had an interesting conversation about Budhism and Shinto worship. We have been meeting with individual members of SAN and doing Bible Storying and English Classes since we have been back. But we will probably start a new class in January. This is good becuase it will be additional students.

This week we habe four members of our church in Cusco along with two members from Prince Ave teaching a seminar on how to share the Gospel with Children. We were also suppose to have 5 members from the team come from Venezuela, but for various reasons they were not able to come. Please pray for this team this week.

Also,We want you to see some of the pictures from the baseball clinic. Please note the team from FBC Brandon and Bell Shoals were in Lima for the first week of January.

We did three clinics a day. Each clinic started with a testimony and a prayer. Then each clinic ended with a Bible Story and a Testimony. At the last clinic with each group the question was posed to each person, "Who do you think Jesus is?"

Many seeds were planted. The people not only heard scripture and testimonies. Many of the coaches and parents commented that they were so surprised that people with such a high level of baseball experience were so kind and so easy to talk to. The coaches were described all week as kind, friendly and gracious teachers. The baseball community saw a group of believers living out their faith.

For our family we have had showers of blessings the past few weeks: from being with our children, Christmas gifts from family and friends, the Baseball team and getting to know and interact with them, a visit from our nephew as he passed through Lima on a REAP trip, and now the Sunday School team in Cusco. Plus this past week another Chifa worker (Freddie) accepted Christ through the ministry of Gomez, Evert and Santos three of our original church members.

If you think God is speaking to you about a VBS activity in English or some type of Business presentation: Medical, General Business, Architecture or Engingeering. Please call or e-mail. These events help us all to have a bridge to enter a community and share our faith and testimony of Christ. Then we may have an opening to go further in these relationships to share more fully about who God is. He is the creator of the world and he loves us all.

To all of the people that are praying for us we would like to continue to say thank you.

B & P,

The Mitchells
Tim, Joy and the Boys

Regarding the Pictures: These are two different clinic groups and the coaches as well as some of the leaders of the baseball association. (We will put up some more pictures soon.)

Merry Christmas (Be Joyful in the Lord)

Merry Christmas from Lima, Peru

As we end the year we would just like to say thank you for your prayer support this past year. We are seeing more interaction with Nikkei people. Our existing relationships are becoming deeper. The church in Miraflores is growing. We have a core group at the church that is very faithful. We are looking forward to mission teams working with the church in the month of January and February. These are great opportunities to share the Gospel. Please be praying for these teams that will be traveling to Cusco and Trujillo. Pray for the Holy Spirit to be working in the lives of these people even now.

We recently held our first Nikkei Peruvian prayer meeting with Nikkei believers of different churches.

We would also ask you to pray for a mission team that is coming to Peru the first week of January. They are coming to give a Baseball Clinic. We will be able to meet roughly 200 plus young men from the ages of 11 to around 25. This is a tremendous opportunity to meet and get to know many Nikkei families. Already in the preparation process we have developed a relationship with the leaders of the Baseball Association. Please pray for the Nikkei people that they will understand that there is a creator God.

We are thankful to have Gray and Caleb with us in Peru this Christmas.

There are many problems and difficulties in the world at the moment, but God is in heaven and watching. One day He will return and until that day we have the great advantage of having a personal relationship with Him. This Sunday we will be studying the fourth chapter of Philippians. A great encouraging passage in chapter 4 is verses 4 - 9:
4Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! Let your gentle spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
8Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things. 9The things you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

We pray for Blessings and Peace to All,
( Have a joyful and merry Christ centered day every day of the year.)
Tim and Joy Mitchell
PS We are always eager to hear news from family and friends in the states. If you have a Christmas letter or a note about how things are going in your life please share with us. This is a great way to stay connected. www.teachingothers.blogspot.com


Note: We are beginning ESL classes with more students. We are praying with more people. We are involved in discipleschip and Bible studies with more people. Pray that God's word will work in the hearts and lives of the people in the world and they will know and understand Jesus as their personal Lord and Saviour. Amen