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Our mission team will now be tracked on www.missionperu.ca if you want to have the latest up to date writeups, and see the pictures of what God is doing in Peru. Thanks for your continual prayers.

this is it!

it's TODAY!
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keep praying for us, thanks for all the blessings!
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two days!

TWO DAYS!

five days!

5!

nine days!

Hey everyone!

WOW, the Peru trip is only NINE days away. =o Can you believe it?
Nine days to pack... to get ready... and we're currently in the middle of exams right now too!
Nine days until we hit the city of Trujillo! :D

Last Friday, our team had a meeting, in which we discussed airport stuff, etc. (Terminal 3, 12:00PM, LAN airlines, luggage...) We're flying to New York, spending 6 hours in the airport, flying to Lima, Peru, and then taking a 10 hour bus ride up to Trujillo. It sounds tiring already! But at the same time, very cool. ;)

What are we going to be doing during all that time? Playing cards? LOL. Nah, PJohn gave us each a book! After all, part of the preparation is reading Godly books. The books were ...

- Choose Love, Not Power
- The End of Religion
- The Irresistible Revolution
- Crazy Love
- Forgotten God
- Adventures in Missing the Point
- The Twenty Piece Shuffle

These books are for us to read to learn more, and "gain insight" so we can do more in Peru, etc. We're supposed to read them, journal about them, reflect on them, and then switch halfway through the trip. :)

Also, during the meeting, we discussed our fundraising for the trip!! It's all thanks to everyone that WE HAVE REACHED OUR GOAL OF $4200! ... and more, in fact! God is good. :D Awesome. haha, with this, our team is finally ready to go to PERU! As well, with the surplus money, we plan to use it for gifts to the Peruvians. What sort of gifts, we're not sure yet. School supplies, soccer balls, care packages... there are lots of possibilities! If you have any ideas, feel free to comment below. :)

That's all for now, there's lots to do... start packing, brush up on the few Spanish words we know... keep following our blog, we'll be sure to update daily in Peru! Keep praying for us too! Thank you everyone for your love and support!

-Jessie

Working Out the Muscles God Gave Us

Last week Hugo and I set out on the epic journey to use all of our muscles to help the Duncans move out! On this journey we encountered boxes upon boxes of books and knick knacks as well as mattresses, bikes, bed frames, and a bunch of clothing. We brought all of this from the 8th and 9th floor down to the ground floor where the U-Haul™ was parked.


So here is Hugo next to the U-Haul™ after we had finished unloading everything:


And here is the result of our efforts:

After we made our first trip to the new house, we went back to finish packing and moving everything into the U-Haul™. Hugo was clearly stronger than I was because I had to rely on him to hold up all the boxes:



With our final load done and all loaded into the elevator, we took a final picture of all of the boxes:



With all that was said and done, both Hugo and I had a great time helping the Duncans move out. We definately look forward to our next set of chores! Thank you for supporting us :D

- Ant

Weekend of Painting and Sanding

The Duncans recently moved into a new house and needed painting to be done at their house so they hired us as painters.

This was Jeff's first time painting. He had the task of taping up the corners and painting near the corners. I got to paint the walls using the rollers. Poor Jeff. He saw me making huge progress because the roller covers large surface area while he had the small handheld paintbrush and he had to "paint within the lines".

Here's the after picture with Jen holding our snacks. She also bought us Cherry Blasters.

Sunday night, Joey, P. John, and myself headed over to Ginger and Dan's place. A true fixer upper.

We were greeted by a bird in the house and it was pretty scary because it kept on darting between two windows and the skylight. As P. John said, "I don't do birds". Dan chased it into the closet and caught it in his hands and freed it oustide. Yay!

This is not a large Jackson Pollock painting. This is a wall in which Dan asked me to scrape off the brown paint. Needless to say, it was taking too long so I was moved to wall-sanding work.

Joey was made for sanding. She was sanding down bumps that I had given up on as impossible to reach. The masks were suffocating though. Good news, Ginger and Dan are hiring us again!

Elaine

FUN STUFF + Personal Servants

Icebreaker: having a team member try to move a Mars bar from the forehead to the mouth usingly only the facial muscles.


That's Adrienne being a good sport. Apparently she had chocolate running down her face.

Team pic below! We are a good looking group. Unfortunately we forgot to take an unsmiling Chinese family portrait picture.

Other news: We need people to sign up as "personal servants". We won't send you alone to a house. You will be sent as pairs and we will have an adult supervisor with you. "Personal Servants" will do stuff like lawnmowing, cleaning a house, painting decks, hair cutting, fixing computers...etc whatever comes to your mind.

For Example: my house needs the following stuff done:

-sanding the picnic table in our backyard

-cleaning the guest washroom

-painting a small house in our backyard that we built for the animals (the size of a dog house)

-vacuuming, sweeping, dusting

-deweeding, lawnmowing, maybe gardening, planting grass seeds

-cleaning the animal cage and laying new bedding

-washing stuff that got submerged in flood water

If anyone wants to sign up to be a "personal servant" please contact Crystal.

Elaine

Peru Missions Training Day - WLAChurch

Hola!~ Me llamo Hugo :) Haha, that's a little bit of the Spanish I learned today in Spanish 101. Hopefully in the coming weeks I will be able to add onto that and possibly have a half decent conversation instead of a brief broken Spanish introduction and a shameful walk in the other direction... LMAO

This is actually my first time blogging so please hang in there with me.

So I woke up at about 6:35am and was sitting impatiently inside John's red Honda Civic by 7:30am. I was half asleep, cold, slightly confused and not much better than a zombie in a vegetative state. o__o; LOL. Joey was already in the back and in a few minutes we were joined by the fourth member of our travel group, Jessie! The rest of the team, comprising of the A's (Ant, Adrienne, Amanda) along with Elaine were going to West London Alliance Church in their own seperate car.

After 2hrs of small talk, staticy radio stations, awkward silences, rolling hills, neatly done fields, a brief talk on the latest trucker trends and a brief stop at McDonalds we were finally at WLAC! This church was not as big as ours, but the youth worship area blew my mind and was complimented on by most members of our team. Some of the items they had included black leather sofa's, large screen tv's, a pool table, a foosball table and an Apple Desktop that Ant kept on eyeing. No doubt he wanted to leave with that.. along with their beautiful AV set up! kekeke. LOL. No worries though, we've all been taking visual notes on what we thought would be neat additions to Xara in the future. Just maybe. ;D

There were a total 8 youth groups that have come from our CMA district. The rest of the training day was spent on games to build up some relationships with the other teams, worship, prayer, a brief overview of the guidelines we had to follow, and finally a *gasp* a Skype convo with Rich Brown (one of the missionaries in charge of IncaLink!) ... who was in Canada atm ... LOL. So that's a relatively brief summary of what I did today. Come talk to me or anyone from the team if you want to know in detail what we did today! XD

Please continue to pray for us as we continue to work together in preparing ourselves physically and spiritually for the trip in the coming months! Buenas Noches!~

- Hugo Wu

Welcome!

Welcome to our blog!

This is the blog of the Mission Peru Team, and will be documenting all of the preparation prior to the mission trip (including fundraising, trainings, etc) as well as all that happens on the actual trip! :)

Background/Information

Mission Peru 2010 takes place on June 30th-July 10th. Their vision statement is: "Partnering globally with Alliance churches to give high school students a missional experience" -- to experience short term for the long term. Mission Peru is partnered with CCD Youth, Rich and Lisa Brown (missionaries) through Inca Link (www.incalink.net), and the network of Peruvian Alliance Churches in Trujillo, Peru.
While down in Peru, students are encouraged to be "unplugged", meaning no technology allowed, excepting blogging about their experiences. They will be staying at a group guest house that is run by American missionaries. Ministry opportunities in Peru include the Garbage Dump Ministry, Children Ministries at an orphanage, the building of homes, and more.

Mission Team

Pastor John Mah
Adrienne Chan
Amanda Chan
Anthony Lau
Joey Li
Jessie Ho
Hugo Wu

And backing up the Mission Team, is the entire youth service FLUID-- the combined fellowships of XARA and WWJD. Everyone will be contributing towards the trip in fundraising and other background work. :D Many thanks go to them! :D

As for the fundraising itself, more information will be given out later.

Meanwhile, your support and prayers for us are greatly appreciated!

In Christ,
-Jessie.

PS. MISSION TEAM TRAINING THIS SATURDAY; 10-4 in LONDON.