yes, they do have papa johns pizza in peru. and it was awesome. peru 6.

just wanted to give you all a quick update. right now, i find myself in comas, peru. before i tell you why, let me catch you up on some sweet stuff God did this past weekend.

saturday. i had the opportunity to preach again at the young adults service. the whole night was on prayer and intamacy with God. it was an incredible time to share with them what God has revealed to me over the past month as to what prayer is and some aspects as to why it exists. i shared with them that prayer must center around Gods glory and exists to proclaim the glory due his name. secondly when pray, we are asking for Gods will to be revealed in our life, not a christmas list of earthly comforts. we ask that our hearts would continually align with His. thirdly i told them the goal of prayer is communion with God. we need continous conversation that is not constricted by a ¨dear god¨ or ¨amen.¨ this produces trust and trust; relationship and relationship; intamacy. we were not made to be aquaintances with God, but to experience true and continuous fellowship. afterwards, the response God produced was incredible! God was moving in a way words could not do justice. for a solid 30 minutes some these young adults were on their face crying out to God. some in very deep thought and reflection. and some asleep. praise God for the maturation he did in all of our lives that night.

sunday. i had the opportunity to preach 4 times. again, i stress the fact that before coming here, i had no idea that they would ask me to preach so much. it has been unsettling, exciting, nerve racking, but above all, it has moved me to become dependent upon God in ways i had not experienced before. just another way, of the many, God has taken me out of my comfort zone and spured me to depend solely upon him. i taught out of romans 3:21-26. i would encourage you to read that scripture as it thoroughly walks a person through the heart of Christian faith. it is the presentation of the biblical gospel. on sunday, i attempted to walk through the biblical gospel and what a biblical response to the gospel looks like. i say with full assurance that i was in no way confident in myself after those messages. yet, i know with everything that is within me God moved in all of the services. i was reminded that his word never returns void and that the gospel is incredibly good news to a hopelessly sinful humanity. i am so stoked to tell you that 8 people (that i know of) came to faith in Christ on sunday. we have some new family members brothers and sisters. wishing we could all kill the fattened calf together right now and start partying together. however, i´m sure God was having a good time for all of us. praise God for the fact that every person he saves is another story of blessed defeat.

anyways, back to the story about comas and what the heck i am doing here. i arrived here on monday, with honestly no idea what to expect. i showed up greeted by my friend marco (he is the pastor to the young adults at another church that Fellowship is partnered with) and also by Angel (who is the pastor of the church in comas, peru). immediately, like most peruvians do, they made me feel right at home with their contagious joy and continous encouragement. i found out when i arrived that i would be staying here till wednesday. i preached for a short time tonight and got to spend most of the day with the pastors of the churches in comas during a meeting they had. it was a wonderful to just be apart of meeting where i witnessed a bunch of men strive together to pursue unity as they move forward in Godly and biblical leadership of the church. thankful for the fact that God was able to put some faces to all the names i had heard about for so long here in comas. my time in comas has been incredibly blessed (included getting to have papa johns and starbucks, which, when all i have had is nescafe for a month, was actually pretty good…sorry jamie) and i wish i could stay longer, however, tomorrow, i am leaving for south peru with the president of the christian missionary alliance here in peru. i am so excited for the new experiences God will provide and yet another day of not having any idea of what i am doing, but being moved to ruthless trust in a sovereign God and constant dependence on a faithful savior. the same exact place i pray all of us would be in in every moment of our lives.

 in Christ and for his glory, bubba

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