Love Extreme

After working 2 months non-stop, almost 300 short term volunteers to flood into Peru in June to build God's kingdom. Needless to say, Denise's and my days were full trying to coordinate all the details and action. They worked in 6 cities, performed 16,741 hours of community service, hosted 24,083 local Peruvians at our events, and treated 1,695 patients at the medical clinics. Best of all, 1,793 adults and 566 children accepted Chirst at our events. That is 2,359 new believers!! Gloria a Dios....

Losing my hair at teh office

The trusses are up

Trusses being constructed

First truss installed

Trusses going up

Sun goes down and the purlins are up

Family Zone

We had a great week with over 30 people from Washington and Illinois. They helped on the construction site with completeing the 3rd level columns, walls, bond bond beam, stairs, and wiring for first and second levels. They also held many outreach events, concerts, magic shows, Jesus Films, and kids festivals.

Third level floor getting formed and ready for concrete.

Placing concrete on the third floor.

40/40's having fun!!

Columns on the third level

Concreting the stairs for the 3rd level

Front wall all complete.


The youngest construction worker (8 months)

The workers waving good bye from the 3rd level.

Cusco Construction

We broke ground just 6 weeks ago for the Cusco 40/40 Center. It went from from this:














To this today:

We enjoyed a team mostly from Alaska and Idaho that came down February 26-March 10. It was a hard working group of people and lots of work was accomplished by the team. Here are some photos in no paticular order.

Besides work on the 40/40 Center, the team did 4 Jesus Film showings, did a children’s festival at 2 sites, did a prison visit, ministered at an unwed mothers shelter, and prayed over many of the church plant sites. Over 200 made a decision to accept Christ during these impact events. The light and hope of the Gospel was plainly seen.

We truly enjoyed getting to see our Alaskan friends Mike and Linda Couch, Gary and Laura Lagstrom, Dennis and Ariel Strait, Trevor and Hilary Strait, and my business partner, Scott and Penny Hattenburg. What a great couple of weeks.

Sweat'n for Jesus in the Jungle

I arrived in Pucallpa on February 9th. Denise had to stay in Arequipa and work in the office and didn’t get to go this project. Pucallpa is a jungle city of about 300,000 on the banks of the Ucayali River, a major tributary of the Amazon River. Lots of fruit, lumber, and river transportation.

The first thing I noticed upon getting out of the plane was the heat and humidity. The temperature ranged between 80-100 degrees the whole week. Luckily we had swimming pool where we were staying for a nice cool dip in the evenings. We even had a monkey come to visit us and beg for food. He trained those americonos pretty fast!

I worked with 4 others to do some remodel to the dormitories that the 40/40 missionaries will be living in when they arrive in May. We framed in and installed a plywood ceiling in both the boys and girls dorm, painted the walls and installed tile on the floor of the boys room, and tiled a couple of showers. The Peruvians will finish the paint and tile in the girls room.

Besides the construction, we had 2 doctors, a dentist, 3 nurses, and about 12 other people there in Pucallpa to hold 8 medical clinics in 4 different locations. The doctors saw hundreds of patients and got to use their skills to care for their physical needs while pastors and missionaries got an opportunity to talk with each one and pray for their spiritual needs. Children who came got to hear bible stories, see puppet shows, get their face painted, and play lots of soccer.

We also got to show the Jesus Film in the evening at each of the clinic locations. The night I went, there were about 75 people that showed up to watch. After the film, the pastor would give an invitation to know Christ, and about 15 people gathered around the pastor. Several commented that they were glad that the Church had come to their neighborhood and they were excited to have a church being planted there.