Dear friends and family,
Greetings from Pucallpa, Peru where the weather has been sunny but not blazing hot for the past few weeks. We have had a few "frios" where a cold front has moved through the area and we run for our long-sleeved clothes because it's in the low 70s.
Last letter we asked for prayer for William as he was setting up an internship and needed housing. In answer to these prayers, William was able to find housing that met his needs. He is learning about commutes and has two new roommates. Fellow missionaries in North Carolina are gifting William a car that was used by their daughter while she was in college. As a family they want to bless another missionary kid with a college car! Cullen is hard at work filming and producing videos at Lake Geneva Youth Camp. His latest production can be viewed here.
Joy's scans in May came back clean, and she continues to be able to take the medications without severe side effects. We praise God for his continued blessing on Joy and her health. Continue praying for healing of her neuropathy and for the consistent muscle cramps she experiences. Her next set of scans will be in the first week of August.
To that effect, we are traveling as a family to Chicago for those scans. Most importantly, we will finally celebrate our 25TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY! We are setting aside ten days to travel while Camilla attends teen camp before Joy's scans. When we return, the boys will be done working, and we can have a few days of everyone together again.
Since the beginning of June, Joy has once again added the interim program manager of SAMAIR to her list of responsibilities. This includes a supervisory role of the team, managing team dynamics, extra zoom meetings with both SAM Peru leaders and JAARS aviation program managers from around the world, as well as making decisions regarding operations and spending. She also continues scheduling the flights, billing and receiving of flight income and maintains her position as safety manager for the team. After her next scans in August, she will once again look into submitting paperwork to the FAA to regain her flight medical. Pray for this process as it will involve extra costs and the willingness of her doctors and the FAA to efficiently process this information.
Bill is working this summer on class prep as well as light maintenance at the school. If anyone knows how to replace floorboards they can give him a call. Lots of painting, replacing mosquito screens, and moving around whiteboards and bulletin boards are in his future. Praise God, the school looks to be set for teachers in the fall and we should have about the same number of students. The school recently had a promotional video produced. It is available for viewing here.
Please be in prayer with us for these things:
(1) Safety and God's protection for both of our sons as they work this summer.
(2) That we are able to arrange to pick up the car and figure out all the paperwork involved.
(3) Clean scans for Joy at the beginning of August.
Last but not least, we wanted to highlight some of the ministry opportunities our daughter Camilla has been involved with in the past months. In May, her high school went by river to a small Shipibo community where they painted the school building and ran a day program for the kids. A few weeks later, she participated in an evangelistic event in a local neighborhood where 74 kids made decisions for Christ. She also helped out at a local Peruvian school during "English" week leading worship and interacting with students while they practiced their English with a native speaker. Take a look at some of the photos below.
As always, thank you for your prayers and support for our ministry as we bring God's truth of love and redemption to the people groups here in the jungles of Peru.
In Christ,
Joy
Here are a few photos showing what Camilla has been doing the past few months.
