AXIS Student Ministry

After a long trip, we made it to Peru!! Our first stop is for breakfast, and then we will head to the dock where we will load up the boat and travel down the Amazon River to our lodge. We are so excited to finally be here, and we cannot wait to see what the Lord will do this week!

We've traveled in buses and planes, and now we get to travel by boat! We are on our way down the Amazon River to get to our lodging for the week. 

Our team is splitting up between two different villages this week: Irlanda and Huanana. This morning, both groups started off with a worship service alongside the local church.

This group in Irlanda led a lot of the church service, and we can already see how God is at work here in the Amazon. The local church has made us feel welcomed, and the fellowship with other believers is so sweet! 

This evening we packed up some basic groceries into these blue bags. Each bag represents a home or family that we will visit later this week. We don't know their names or stories yet, but God does! We are looking forward to meeting families in the community, and we pray that these bags of food will be reminders of God's love for them. In remote areas of the Amazon, He sees each person and cares for them, just like each of us! Please join us in praying for these families and conversations that we will have this week.

This morning, we started out with home visits in both villages! We not only are delivering the bag of food, but we are spending time asking questions and sharing about the hope we have in Christ. Pastor Jose is visiting families with us, so we pray that these visits create open doors for him to continue ministry after we leave. 

For our last day of VBS in Irlanda Village, we shared the story of when Jesus fed the 5,000. What a mighty God we serve! 

These were some hard goodbyes today as we said goodbye to our new friends. We pray that they heard God's truth and felt His love these last few days. 

This morning we had a visit from some sloths! Needless to say, we absolutely LOVED them and it was a great way to start our day before we head back to Iquitos!  

We are back in Iquitos! After a busy and hot week, we are enjoying a nice dinner at a restaurant with a pool and a great view of the Amazon River. It is a great way to relax and reflect after a full week before we start our long travels home tomorrow!