Pictures from our 2011 Peru trip

A third team will join us in Peru - The Davis'

Matt and Evie Davis have made their announcement that they will leave all behind and move to Peru as missionaries with the Killillay's and us.  Matt describes what lead him to this decision in his blog:

"Here I am today with an immense burden for the people of Peru, and a desire to go share the gospel.  After taking a trip there in march, and spending a month on my knees, seeking God will for my life, my wife and I have decided to leave all that we have and go proclaim the glory of God in Peru.  I count it as a huge privilege that God would give me this honor and allow a wretch like me to even utter His Holy name, let alone go and proclaim the good news of His Son Jesus Christ to the nations.  What a gracious and merciful God I serve, He has purchased me, redeemed me, and bought me, His own creation from a life of sin and death to the light of His mercy and grace.  Praise be to His name.  This honor that He has given me leaves me trembling, and in total awe of His love."

Matt and Evie will spend the next year doing what we have been doing; getting rid of all their stuff and getting an enumerable amount of things done in preparation to move to Peru with a few suitcases.  They will fly to Lima, Peru next May or June and attend language school as well as a Bible institute at the Iglesia Bautista Del Salvador, which is a church that was started by Paul Washer in Lima, Peru and is now supported by HeartCry Missionary society.  The Killillay's and our family will arrive in Lima to get visas in September of next year and also meet up with Matt.  It will take us 2 months to get visas and then all three families will move to Cusco, where we will live and work. 

We are so excited about Matt and Evie joining us and we look forward to the work that God has planned for us.  To find out more about Matt and Evie you can go to Matt's blog:  I Am Not Ashamed.  They will be updated their blog to give more information about their mission.  If you have questions or and interest to hold the rope for Matt you can call him at:  406-202-2967.

George Muller

Ever since we stepped out on faith to give our lives on the foreign mission field I have found so much encouragement in reading George Muller's autobiography.  It is a monster of a book, 731 pages of answered prayer.  The book is sub-titled a million and a half in answer to prayer.  Muller depended on God alone for his provision on a daily basis.  He never solicited funds or told his needs but just published a report after the fact to glorify the name of God for how He provided.  When understand God's providence and His decrees, you see that God provided for all of George Muller's needs by raising up people as the means to do it.  We have seen much of the same thing because we have the same God and He still answers prayers.  Here is a snippet of His biography:

If He only might be glorified, and His Church and the world be benefited.  Often and often this last point has of late passed through my mind, and I have placed myself in the position of having no means at all left, and 2,100 persons, not only daily at the table, but with everything else, to be provided for, and all funds gone; 189 Missionaries to be assisted, and nothing whatever left; about 100 schools, with about 9000 scholars in them, to be entirely supported, and no means in hand; about 4 million tracts and 10,000 Bibles yearly to be sent out, and all the money expended.  Invariably, however, with this probability before me, I have said to myself: God, who has raised up this work through me, God who has led me generally year after year to enlarge it, God who has supported this work now for more than forty years, will still help, and will not suffer me to be confounded, because I rely upon Him.  I commit the whole work to Him, and He will provide me with what I need, in future also.

Indeed God did provide for George Muller, all his needs, by faith alone, through prayer and supplication, without soliciting money or presenting the thousands of needs he had.  We serve the same God and He still answers prayers.  Although we shouldn't try and model Muller as far as starting orphanages, schools, and missions society's and expect God to automatically do the same thing, the principles that Muller lived by absolutely apply to us and God will provide in the same way.