Saturday, February 25, 2012

BMM retreat 2012

The first week of February was our annual BMM ministry team meetings. In the mornings we have a lesson then several hours of business meetings. While the adults are in their meetings, the kids are enjoying VBS. Their theme this year was cars and racing. The FMCA teachers did an exceptional job with our children. The kids LOVED it!

During the week, our coworker Beth Rojas went into premature labor. She was 6 1/2 months along. In order to save her life, the doctor had to do an immediate c-section. Samuel Jr. did not survive long. Many tears were shed this week. We had a small funeral servcie and burial. We continue to pray for the Rojas family as they recover, grieve and minister in the Urubamba region.

In our afternoons we played family games, swam and just relaxed together. We love our annual field conference. It looks like next year ALL of our BMM team members will be on the field. That will be totally awesome!

Stan and Ruth Templeton

Bruce Burkeholder our speaker. God laid on his heart to speak from us from the book of Psalms this week. God knew we would need the comfort from His word.

Rebekah Bursell our newest team member. She is a full time FMCA teacher.

Gary and Penny Whipple

Jim and Alethia Lossing

David and Kandie and clan

The single gals

FMCA teachers

Lydia - a short-termer in Urubamba

Jon and Julie and clan

Samuel (and Beth) Rojas and family. Beth was in the hospital still.

Lois Hutchinson

Tim and Barb Whatley and crew

Ken and Sharon Loveall and clan

The girlies

The boys

The gangs all here. Except for Evelyn Stilwell and Diane Frey, they were at the hospital keeping Beth company



Honoring Stephen and Evelyn for their 40 years on ministry in Peru



Such a tiny little casket.

The funeral service
One very happy girl seeing her mommy after a fews days. I think that mommy is pretty happy too!

Friday, January 20, 2012

Family Camp Pictures

Here are only a few of the 300+ pictures we took at family camp. It was a blessing to have a full to capacity camp this year. The theme was "End Times". David's dad was the guest speaker. We had 117 campers and staff present.
All of the campers 117 of them!

Hot potato, hot potato

When the stove acts up (catches on fire) we cook over the firewood.

Abigail and Liliana teach the 4-5 year olds

Pierina and Martha taught the 6-8 year olds

Rebekah and Anna taught the 9-11 year olds

Ana and Jacob taught the 2-3 year olds

Sarah looked after our littlest campers

Aren't they just too cute!

No running water today? Just pull it up out of the well.

Counting out the trays for all 117.

Great families and a great view of the mountain behind them.

Everyone likes carpetball

Apple anyone?

Sarah plays with her little ones

Family devotion time

Woohoo! Snack shop time

Awesome the way the sun reflects off of the mountain

Rebekah teaching

Her students are really tuned in

Jacob is too

There were always dishes to wash

I just like this picture

We even let the workers eat.

The workers taught classes, served food and washed the dishes

Still serving

too cute!

More serving

Yep, they are loving camp food.

Anna (standing on the side in the orange shirt) is our fearless life guard this summer

Lots of campers in the medium sized pool

Some dads having fun in the big pool

Our oldest camper. She is precious

Anna is making sure they don't take more than their share of the bread

Washing again

Our wonderful cook, Rosa

We did let them play some too