The Cool Winters of Lima

We are in the North America summer months, but in Lima it is time for the cool if not slightly cold winters. We were in Ica for a mission meeting in June and next week we will be in the jungle on a mission trip.

We have had a second Nikkei young man accept Christ. Please pray for him..

Our ESL groups are going well. We are now offering our students various Bible study options on the weekends. We are hoping to have several of our students come to these Bible study classes and that these classes will become cell groups within our church...

Our work with a few of the Nikkei schools is progressing we are hoping to get the opportunity to work with the students in the English programs. Thus building relationships to the families.

Please continue to pray.

We will be in Tarapoto doing an Evangelism/ Lay Leader Training/ VBS training and a VBS for about a 100 kids.. Please pray for those going on this trip from our church in Lima and from Athens.

Blessings and Peace,
The Mitchells

Doors

Please continue to pray for open doors and receptive hearts.

Doors are opening within some of the Nikkei schools. We are now beginning to work with the schools in teaching English and values and moral truth from the Bible. One of the schools has created a program for all the Nikkei that have been living in Japan and just returned because of the world economic crisis. Many of these kids have been in Japan all or the majority of their life. ( avg 8 - 12 yrs) They are 6 - 16 years old.

Pray for D. He had family members that attended the Baseball Clinic in January. We met for coffee 3 weeks ago and his question for me was, " What do Baptist Believe?" He made a decision to follow God that day and has been studying the Bible with us every week since. (Pray for him and his family and for other people to be open and burdened to discover the truth of God's love.)

We have been able to share the gospel and teach the Bible and witness to many of our ESL students at a Japanese business that has offices in Peru. They hire a large percentage of Nikkei people. Many of the Nikkei work for the Japanese managers because they are fluent in Japanese, Spanish and speak a level of English. We are building some good relationships and people are getting interested in studying and learning about God from the Bible.

The work at Prince Mission in Mira Flores is ongoing. We have a few Nikkei visiting the church and one coming regularly.

Thank you for your prayers and support for the IMB. We could not be here without your prayers. Our world is a lost and dying place. Please pray that we as believers are open to God's word and our always looking for ways to meet with people and share about God's love for all of us. From what we read on the internet and see of the US culture we all need to be sharing the Gospel ...

Again thanks for your prayers!!!

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