Summary of our work during the first months of the year
Greetings and gratitude, your prayer sustains us!
Dear brothers and friends, we feel very grateful to you for your constant prayerful support for Pepe, Kari and me, especially in these months!
It has been a time of moves, changes and much new learning! In the midst of it all, the Lord sustains us, he hears your prayers for us and answers them! His accompaniment is a real impetus to move forward.
In these days we were reflecting together with the team of the Antioch Missionary Base, where we serve, on 1 John. One of the verses that captured my attention was 1 John 3.1:
"See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him." (NLT)
The Lord loves us with a love that we do not even understand, and He does it to show us who He is. God is love and He wants the nomatsiguenga to call Him Father too. Join us in prayer for your salvation.
February: “Writers’ Workshop”
Getting to know the language and opening doors in schools!
We would also like to tell you how the Lord has been working in these parts. Just before arriving in Chuquibambilla, Karina and I stayed in a nearby village to participate in a workshop for elementary school teachers who speak Nomatsiguenga, the language we are now learning.
It was very inspiring to see their real interest in helping their students to continue speaking their language and also to read it. We pray that these contacts made with some of the teachers will be the beginning of programs that will really transform lives in their schools! The Lord’s great desire is that the Nomatsiguenga will also be able to fully understand His Word and give Him all the glory!
Arrival at “Chuqui”: Making a home and looking to the future!
We arrived in Chuquibambilla, or Chuqui as it is called here, in the last days of February.
Pepe was able to come a few days early to set up the place where we now live. The missionaries of the Base were an invaluable help so that this place now looks like a home.
While the construction of a more adequate place for us to live begins, we are occupying a space dedicated to the reception of short-term groups. So we also want our house to be started so that we don’t take up this space for so long.
Just yesterday we expected to start delimiting the perimeter where the house will be, but they discovered that the inclination is greater than expected, this adds some more waiting and necessary resources. We are grateful to God because we have enough to live, and He still gives us more! We trust in that provision for the construction project of this house.
March: SILTEC and Language Technology
After getting our things settled, Pepe was back in Lima for 3 weeks. The first two weeks he was supporting a workshop for the consultants, experts who review Bible translations when a book has been completed. How nice for the experts to learn more effective ways to translate the Bible with technology! The third week he was able to meet with other colleagues from the Americas to receive updates on the technology programs and get feedback on their experiences.
Adaptation to the nomatsiguenga culture
These 2 months living among the Nomatsiguenga has been good. We have started to get familiar with some words of their language like “Tosorintsi” which is God or “janequi” which is child. But, we still have a lot to learn! Please help us by praying for this area, that the Lord will give us the ability to learn it!
Another nice thing has been the welcome from our neighbors. Even before we learned their names, one of their sons came to bring us a plate of food, duck stew. We have received bananas in bulk and even ate anona, all from our back neighbors! Please pray especially for this family to know Jesus! God gives us the opportunity to serve them from time to time by feeding his middle child and sharing interesting conversations with him.
Plans with teachers and children
I have been blessed to meet some of the teachers from the schools here. I wish I could start some project with them in the near future. In the meantime, we continue to seek God’s guidance and the opportunities He will show us in the schools. Soon I will start supporting classes for the Nomatsiguenga children who come to church on Sundays.
Thank you for walking with us!
We hope this news will encourage you and give you a clear picture of how God is at work here. Once again, thank you for being a part of our ministry through your prayers!
Love in Christ,
Rosas Maya Family
Prayer requests
We appreciate your prayers for the following reasons:
- May God guide us to understand the best way to serve the nomatsiguenga and show them the true God.
- For grace to be able to relate with the nomatsiguenga.
- For resources for the construction of our house in Chuquibambilla.
- In gratitude to God because the Base was able to advance in the arrangements for the local medical post for the community.
- We thank God that Kari is adapting well to this new home, she has a little friend from the Base and other neighbors come to play with her.
Thanks (gracias) to each one of you who are being part of the Lord’s ministry with your prayers, offerings and messages of encouragement.
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Rosas Maya Family
Iglesia Bautista Getsemaní from Cuautla, Morelos, México.
Iglesia Evangélica Unión Peruana El Sembrador from Iquitos, Perú.
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