Peru Day Six
on Feb 8, 2010 in Peru church missions Nazarene mission work religion God Iquitos Amazon River paiche Building Chruches January 15, 2010 Well we are up at daylight again. Today we pack everything including all the tools, live chickens, eggs and bananas so we can head for another village. This is a workday for the men of the village and as we are leaving we see them o...

Peru Day Five
on Feb 4, 2010 in Peru Building Chruches church missions Nazarene helping others Iquitos mission Up at daylight, I slept well, when there is no electric or TV you go to bed at dark and wake up at daylight. Breakfast was one egg, yucca root and fried bananas. We went to work and everything went well. The church was finished by early afternoon alo...

Peru Day Four
on Jan 30, 2010 in Peru January 13, 2010 The village is made-up of mostly raised houses with roof’s made of palm leaves. In the center of the village is a soccer field. The grass is cut using machetes.        We are staying in a school house built some years ago...

Peru Day Three
on Jan 28, 2010 in Peru church missions Nazarene God Iquitos Amazon River Nauta Market January 12, 2010 Up in the morning with breakfast at 7:00 AM. We load all of our luggage on top of a bus and head out for the town of Nauta, one hundred kilometers south of Iquitos. It is the only road out-of-town and only goes to Nauta. We get 30 K...

Peru Day 1 & 2
on Jan 23, 2010 in Peru Church Iquitos Market nazarene January 10, 2010 Our goal for this trip was to build two churches, with the girls conducting bible school and crafts with the local children at small villages on the Tigre and Maranon Rivers just above the Amazon River in Peru. All packed, I purchase...

Off to Peru
on Jan 6, 2010 in Uncategorized Church God Iquitos mission Peru Well it’s off to Peru on Sunday, January 10, 2010. Here is what I know about the trip. I will meet a group of Nazarenes from Ohio, in Miami, on Sunday. We all fly from there to Lima in the afternoon. We arrive in Lima in the evening. There we catch...

On to Christmas and the New Year
on Dec 14, 2009 in Uncategorized Christmas Church friends New Year Well I am now nestled in my winter quarters in Arizona. It’s been a little cool here, highs in the high 50’s to the high 60’s. We even had some rain here in the desert. It’s supposed to get into the 70’s next week, hurray! I am now attendi...

Off to Wyoming and then to Arizona
on Nov 17, 2009 in General Buckeye AZ Buffalo WY Michigan Peru Thanksgiving I am off to Buffalo, WY for thanksgiving with my daughter and her family. After that it’s Buckeye, AZ until Jan when I leave for Peru for 10 days. I hope I can avoid the snow all winter. I expect to return to Michigan in the spring. Keep me in...

2003 Mission Trip to Tegucigalpa, Honduras
on Nov 16, 2009 in General Church helping others Honduras mission work nazarene religion trip This was a Mission trip in 2003, where several of us from the Coldwater, Michigan, Church of the Nazarene met a group of Nazarenes from Ohio and went to Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Tegucigalpa is the capital city of Honduras, located in the mountains,...

A Little History
on Nov 3, 2009 in General History Peru Honduras Church mission Just a little history. I am 65 and single after my wife passed on to God’s house in June of 2009. Her and I discussed what out futures might bring if one of us passed away. One of my many pleasures was to serve the Lord through helping our church (...