Trip to Peru April 2008

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JOURNAL FROM PERU

APRIL 15 - APRIL 29, 2008

Hello from Trujillo Peru!

Apr 18, 2008

Greetings all,
Janet Klark and I are in Trujillo Peru! WOW!

DAY ONE - Tuesday April 15th
The flight from Boston to Lima was SO EASY compared to flying to India! The plane wasn't full so we got to spread out and that always helps. The crew was the most delightful American crew that I've had in years! We landed in Lima and Mario was there to pick us up. Barbara Lanzdorf and our friend Marlys Schmidt who was our Israel tour director left in the early morning on the 15th and we arrived late that same night. I was absolutely amazed at how clean and nice and modern the Lima airport is. Wow!

Mario was here waiting for us with a van that is a surfer taxi! Todd told me if I came back from Peru with tan lines from my bathing suit he was going to be very suspicious and I was already in a surfers' taxi! So I just landed and I was already thinking, "help me Jesus!" We went to a very nice international hotel for the night. Beautiful mahogany wood everywhere.

DAY TWO - Wednesday April 16th
We got up the next morning and rushed back to the airport to our flight to Trujillo. We ran into long lines and the timing was way too close for comfort, but we made the flight. We had another nice short flight and landed in Trujillo. They took us to our motel, the San Andres and what a wonderful surprise! It is a beautiful old building with mahogany parquet floors and clean rooms - and even a pool on the roof! The weather is warm and sunny but not too hot for us and it is cool at night.

There are two young men here from Washington State who are helping Mario and Sara. They are wonderful. Their names are Luke and David. They have helped to set up sound equipment, drive us around and take care of details. They are wonderful servants.

The first afternoon we went to the city outside of Trujillo called Miracle and went to the building called Miracle I. We worshipped out on the street with mostly children and their mothers. Sarah and I danced with the children. We had a wonderful time!

I preached on the love of God and on "sozo". I shared about some of the healings in India to build their faith and then I started to minister. I prayed for a young girl with back problems and she was the one who had the most miraculous healing, but also her elderly father had the pain in his shoulder go. A lady with a migraine had her pain lessen. I prayed for an older woman with a sore knee and I could feel it pop and move as I prayed for her. I prayed for a woman with a heart issue and she was in pain and she reported the pain left. There were others who were not in pain so that was in faith, but God was SO faithful! Everyone I prayed for out on the street who was in pain reported that they their pain went away totally or lessened a lot. There was lots of love all around.

They served up purple pudding to the children and there was lots of joy! Praise God! Praise God! It was wonderful.

DAY THREE - Thursday April 17th
We had a nice breakfast here at the motel. We went to the city outside of Trujillo called Hope and went way up to the preschool called Hope I. Again, we were among the very poor, but the children are so wonderful! We shared a little and I talked to the children about praying for healing for others and releasing the kingdom of heaven through their little hands. One little girl immediately wanted to lay hands and pray for me and then for Sarah! She was so precious! She was already packing the Holy Ghost! I was getting walloped!

We went for a short ride to the Pacific ocean had lunch at Mario and Sarah's.

Then we went back to our hotel to rest and prepare for the night. In the evening I spoke at their Bible college that meets on the roof on their house. It reminds me a bit of our garage days! They say that the Thursday night group is smaller than the Friday night group. It was perhaps 25- 30 people. I spoke about the new song, praise and worship and the glory. I shared about songs of the Spirit. Some of them didn't know that the new song was a brand new song of the Spirit. Even though I picked up the guitar and started to lead in the new song, they thought it was a song that I knew. The glory came with a very thick heaviness. Janet said that she was receiving even though she had heard most of the preaching before. The anointing was strong and everyone then worshiped again after the preaching. The joy of the Lord broke out some.

The love of the people is so wonderful. It seems you can't go 30 minutes without someone giving you a kiss on the cheek or a hug!

I find (much to my surprise) I absolutely love preaching on dirt streets among the poor with houses of mud brick and no water and no electric. In India or here in Peru, there is so much freedom! They just pull up a car and block the dirt road and put up a sound system and have a gathering. We think we have freedom in America and we can barely blink even on our own property.

Today we have an easy day and I preach at a "conference" which means a meeting at a hotel, but they have printed posters and tickets to give out to people. Mario picked the theme of the meeting as Deut 28:12! The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.

I was shocked, thrilled and excited! More later!

Love to all!

Dee

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