Tonight we are anticipating the beginning of another adventure in our journey. As I write, we are waiting for Edgar to arrive for the trip to the airport to pick up a small TEAM from Alpharetta, GA. It will be close to 2:00 a.m. by the time we get back home and hit the sack. Although tired, there is an excitement in the air, and sleep will be hard to come by. Kind of feel like a kid again, anxious for the trip to the beach, camp, Christmas vacation, or the birthday party!

You see, when the Americans come to visit, we are thrilled to have some English conversation, work together serving the Peruvians and the Lord, see Peru and the areas of need through their eyes, and be refreshed in a way that we cannot explain. So, having a TEAM come on a short-term mission trip, provides us with the shot in the arm we need to carry us on until the next TEAM arrives.

This group will only be here 5 days, but they are packed with opportunities -- to grow, to learn, to worship, to minister, to serve, to see and to shop!

The TEAM will conduct a one-day medical clinic in one of the poorest areas along the coast near Callao.

They will purchase groceries and deliver them and tour an orphanage, Good Shepherd.

The kick off of a new program by Face to Face Missions of providing Fruit & Milk to about 70 kids in Pachacutec, and 25 others in Jicamarca are on their list of things to do.

Delivering a mattress to a single mother with 4 children, all sleeping on a cot, will be a little challenge, but well worth the effort. What a blessing to provide this family with linens and towels as well.

Soles for Souls -- a grassroots effort to provide flip flops and tennis shoes to the girls at Hope House twice a year, will make it's first delivery this week.

Bridgeway has provided some clothing for distribution in one neighborhood.

A construction project will be evaluated, and hopefully plans will come together for improving ventilation at a little church. The actual construction will have to be at another time.

Visiting Shama Boys Orphanage to learn more about the rescue of boys living under the bridges in the city of Lima, sniffling glue to ease their hunger pains and how life at the orphanage has given them hope, an education and God's love.

WOW -- gotta run, gotta get to the airport, gotta get started -- so much to do, so little time!