Greetings Family and Friends of Pure Joy...

It is 1:56 a.m. the team has arrived in Lima, Peru.  We had good flights and all our luggage arrived.  What more could a girl ask for on the first day in.  Thank all of you so much that have been praying for safety getting here and getting here with all out luggage.

I want to encourage you to go the web site www.purejoyinternational.org and click on the retreats section and then click on Peru Team.  As the week goes on and I mention names along the way it will help you have a face to go with the name.

We are so very thankful for Sharon Smith that speaks Spanish fluently and thus we were able to come through customs and get all our stuff loaded on the bus to get to the hotel.  Spreading butter on a  good ole hot slice of homemade bread could not have been smoother.

The team, while exhausted from the day of travel and airports is doing well and is healthy.  Ruth McWhite came into the trip with a pretty good cold but the antibiotics have her on the road to recovery.

In the morning we are traveling to a local church where Spanish and English are spoken.  Then we will travel to the ocean front for lunch along the Pacific Ocean with a couple of missionaries that actually will not be attending the retreat because they are headed by to the states for a while.

Tomorrow afternoon we will all probably crash for a few hours before take a brief tour of Lima, Peru.

Please continue to pray for the team.  If you have followed us before you realize that the next couple of days are very important to the team building process as we prepare to minister to the women.

We have met a couple of medical missions teams that are going into the mountains of Peru to minister.  One bunch was out of Memphis, TN, a church called, High Point, great group of brothers and sisters in the LORD.

I’m headed to bed to grab about 4-5 hours of sleep. We'll report back to you tomorrow evening.  Please remember chances are you will get these blogs right at a day later than it happens.  So as I write this blog consider it Saturday the 22^nd our travel day.

Pray without Ceasing,

Love you all,

His,

Vickie

P.S.  WooooooHooooooo   All the missionary women were paid for as of yesterday afternoon!!!!!  God is so very Faithful!