Our Family with the Phillips
The past few weeks have overwhelmed us as we experienced the generosity of God’s people. It began as we received a call that someone was waiting to meet us at the church ministry center. We arrived to find Pat & Ernie Phillips in the main room. They were standing in the middle of many tables that were full of the Betty Luken’s Flannel Graph Set. If you are not familiar with this, it is over 700 individual pieces and backgrounds of flannel graph. In tears, Mrs. Philips explained that this was their gift for us to use in Peru. She stated that if even one child was saved as a result it would be worth the time and money. She spent over 48 hours just cutting the pieces out! We cannot wait to get to Peru and use this in our children’s ministry.
We left the next day for a Mission Conference in Mineral, VA. We presented our ministry on Tuesday evening. On Wednesday, Pastor Huffman (Emmanuel Baptist) got up and explained what God had burdened him about the night before. He recounted how he had saved his change for the past few years to put a duel exhaust set on his truck. God had burdened him that the need for the children’s home in Lima was greater than the need for the mufflers. In tears, he presented us a shoe box full of rolled coins for the “Changing The Lives of Children” project. What a blessing!!!
We have now eclipsed 95% of our support as we have only ten meetings left on our schedule before we leave for Peru.
