Peru Day 6...

Well, Thursday was our first full day with our ladies.  Everyone is so excited to be here and so excited to be meeting other women from the surrounding areas.  We have several women that flew in from Panama to attend the retreat; others have traveled 18 hours on a bus to get here.  God is so good to bring in the ladies He would have at each retreat.

Praise and Worship was so sweet throughout the day.  I’m thinking we might have touched on the portal of Heaven during the night session.  But also during the morning worship as I was walking by a young missionary I could have swore I was hearing an angel sing.  This encouraged me to request and impromptu choir for the any of the women that had a voice to sing. Meaning I really asked for those who knew they had a voice to come up not those of us who knew better! Ha,ha,ha,ha

I then asked Nikki our worship leader to lead the ladies in singing the song over us the song we had just finished singing (the song was Still)   It was AWESOME!   Later one of the dear sweet ladies among those of us that didn’t choose to sing in the choir song wondered if we could have a choir song for those that can’t sing.  Hmmmmmmmm, NO.   Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha

Ruth brought a message to us regarding leaving things behind and used such a sweet story woven into the fabric of her journey on and off the mission field. 

After Ruth we had a time of pairing the ladies up through a little activity to allow them to visit and get to know others in the group that they have not know and then in return they shared with the large group what they learned.  Sweet time!

At lunch we had a local dish of some kind of fish called Ceviche.  The dish was the appetizer.  It is a raw fish thinly sliced with a sauce of lime juice and something else.  I personally loved it.  However, the end result is we had one team member and two missionaries that became very ill after lunch.  They are all doing a little bitter tonight! Praise God there is a pharmacy on every corner here and the other missionary women just jump in and say, “I’ll go to the pharmacy and get them exactly what they need.”  In the U.S. you would need an appt. and an hour in the waiting room before you saw the doctor and then you would get the same medicine.

Praise and Worship and another message by Kathy followed our free time. The message was really focused on what it means to “Take the Mask Off” and how difficult that can be for us.  We then had an awesome time of conversational prayer with the women before going to dinner.  After dinner Praise and Worship was incredible and Ruth stepped in for Sharon to give her more time to recover from her above mentioned illness.  Ruth spoke excellent words over us from God that evening.

All and all it was a Great day!  We have laughed our heads off with the missionary women and their stories!  I must say I am the closest to heaven on earth when I’m with these ladies.  God is so good to let us be here.  I do love Him so much!

Thank you all for your continual praying.  Keep it up! We have Friday and Saturday and God has only just begun!  Love you all…

His,

Vickie