Now, Stacy, this is what a compass looks like...
One of our favoritests...
The whole team!!!
HOLA FROM PERU........................
We could not be more excited to be in this beautiful country! The Lord has done so much already, and we have only had one day of ministry! We spent all day thursday, friday, and most of saturday traveling. It was a good thing to arrive in Chiclayo on Saturday night and know that we had a home for a week.
Today we worshipped with a local church here.. my dearest partner, and musical genius, lead the church and some of our students in a special music adventure. it was marvelous. they did wonderfully!
We spent the afternoon doing three dramas in this community. The Lord moved. He allowed His presence to hover and gave our students great courage and boldness on their first day in a serious language barrier. These are good things.
To Hughey (original): hughey (jordan) has helped me with my bag multiple times. you raised a good son - he just had a major lapse that day.
To my beloved sister: the picture is coming soon. uploading will be an adventure.
To all of our friends... we love you. continue to pray. we have a rockstar team. be jealous.
Funny stories from scorching hot dallas...
Hughey says: Dallas today, Peru tomorrow!
KristIn: Our team set a record today - we did drama training all day in the HOT Dallas sun, and they did not complain one time.
Amazing today, asombroso manana.
We have survived 2 half days of drama training, 1 full day, and countless hours of teaching. The Lord has moved - His presence has hovered here this week.
And, thank you Jesus training is finally over! My rear was sore last week, and now thanks to wonderful drama training, my all is sore. (However, a bad daddy song is coming out of all that practice, so just brace yourselves...)
Tomorrow evening we fly to Lima, Peru over night. And then midday Friday we will head further north to Trujillo, Peru on a 9 hour bus ride. We will spend the night there, and then spend 5 more glorious hours to our first final destination - Chiclayo. So. You can be praying for travel in the next few days.
So, the other day KristIn and her sister went to Walmart, main purpose to find me a watch. They get there, spend a while looking and then call me to tell me there aren't any good ones, so I proceed to tell her that I'd prefer a velcro one, and it has to have a built in compass!
Needless to say, my sister and i searched for a good ten minutes for said watch. We couldn't find one with a compass. There were several dials and such in all the faces - but we didn't really know which ones were compasses... So. We returned to Hughey (Jordan) with his money and without a watch.
I couldn't really understand how you would be unable to tell whether or not it had a compass on it. It's a fat knob on the side that spins!
(Hughey never said that it would be on the side!)
So, last night, leaders make a Walmart run, KristIn and I proceed to the watches section, I walk up the kiosk and immediately grab a watch EXACTLY like I had described.
Moral of the story: Hughey is a jerk. Just kidding. But really, we looked long and hard for a compass. We got an A for effort.
And an F for:
eyesight
sense of direction
and very basic knowledge of a compass.
The End. We hope you enjoy this post written by the both of us. We love each of you! Thanks for your support. Pray for our students and their immediate fears, pray for the health of our contact in country, and pray for the Lord to already be at work among the people of Peru.
Thanks for the laughter!
Moral of the story: Hughey is a jerk.
It's OV!...
...until tomorrow.
Well, we've just finished our upper echlon leader training, my stomach is full, and my backside is sore. What can I say, good teaching is exhausting! The teaching truly has been incredible, but sitting and listening all day long fully evinces the well known fact that I can't sit still for more than 2.5 seconds. And that's no fun if you have to sit next to me. Tomorrow's a big day! Not only do we get to get up nice and early to travel to Dallas, we get to meet our MOMs and POPs, the student leadership underneath Dutter and I. Very exciting to see who God has brought to help lead our teams.
Is it legal to write a Response to Comments in a post? :
- Mr. Rod and Mrs. Kathy: I thank you for your prayers. Only you know exactly what I'm dealing with here. And can I say I'm glad to be dealing with it? She keeps it interesting. (And Kitkat[is it ok if I call you that?], we knOw she's jealous...)
-Mom, you're crazy.
-Marti, you're already one of my favorite people. Seriously.
So now I think I'll discourse on the title of this blog as I realize that hasn't been done yet and I'm going to have to be the one to explain it...
The reason we went with "Peruvian" is kind of difficult to understand unless you really look into the deeper, abstract ideas that this trip represents - we're going to Peru.
"Eisegesis": the introduction by an interpreter of his own ideas into a text under explication. It is the opposite of exegesis. So that's what our goal is - to take what we see and do in Peru and feed it back to you along with our ideas of how this changes lives. And maybe, just maybe, God will use our thoughts and words for His glory, because that is the ultimate goal - to be broken to the point that we allow God to interpret everything we see, infusing His own thoughts, not our natural, imperfect ones, so that we may grow closer to the heart of God and give continually more glory to the Father.
Much love to you all. And thank you for your prayers.
Training dearest training...
Its Kristin.
We have completed day 2 of leadership training here in Tulsa and lived to tell about it!
Yesterday after we arrived, we transported to the church where our training would be held and Hughey would reside. We trained all afternoon and ate ungodly amounts of food provided by the lovely people at the blessed Ridgeway Baptist Church. We slept hard last night after we both got up before 5 yesterday morning to get to training!
Today we conquered CPR training. We are prepared to save your lives! And our students. But hopefully not, Lord willing. Morning training and logistics this afternoon and then we spent the evening with the youth group here - 5 of which are travelling with Awe Star this summer! Good news. Its been wonderful so far.
Not a ton of funny stories to recount. Full days of training on Thursday and Friday... and then off to Dallas on Saturday. Early.. my favorite time of the day.
Pray for focus and stamina in the next couple days. I'm learning that sitting and taking notes all day long can be completely exhausting. Continue to pray for our students! 5 of them will arrive on Saturday - these are our student leaders. They will lead up smaller family groups within the team. And then all of them on Sunday!
A special thanks to our moms who have chosen to love the other more than their own child. We appreciate it.
Hughey...
For those of you who read this blog that I do not have the pleasure of knowing, I just want to make sure you understand: My name is Jordan Hughey, not Hughey (Jordan). No, I am not part of witness protection and KristIn is not giving away my true identity by putting Jordan in parentheses. But I do go by Hughey, because of the massive amount of Jordan's that attend the great Union University. I'm a freshman there and have had the horror, wait wait, honor of getting to know KDutt from there. I originate from Little Rock, in the beautiful natural state. A great southern place to grow up, unlike that heathen Yankee place KristIn calls home.
Now for the few of you reading this that I do know, don't tell the rest of the people I know, but you are my favorite child. If I had a coat of many colors, I would give it too you. While I don't, I can offer you coca leaves which are the remedy for any kind of ailment.
Oh, and if you comment of my posts, bonus points.
I do need to thank my partner in crime, KDutt, she is responsible for connecting me with Awestar, and for that I am eternally grateful. Also, being that most of my humor will come from making fun of her, I'm going to go ahead and thank her for that too.
God has already begun doing a work in the people of Peru, and we are so grateful that He is allowing us to have a part in His mighty plan. The more we pray over this trip and the closer we move to God the more exciting it gets because we see more and more clearly how awesome and powerful he is and how willing he is to "open the floodgates of Heaven" if we give all of ourselves.
We hope you will be a part of this with us. The greatest thing you can give are your prayers because we know the more we bathe this trip in prayer the more God's glory will be shown.
And there is nothing greater than that.
Thanks to everyone for your support.
"Now show [us] your glory."
Exodus 33:18
Kristin.....
Welcome to our blog! Hughey (Jordan) and i are going to attempt to keep people all over the world updated with this little guy for the next 40 days. Let me warn you from the beginning though - Hughey is a funnier writer than i am. Fight the urge to be disappointed when you see that i have posted.
If you're a friend on Hughey's (Jordan), you dont know me. I'm from Kansas City but i go to school with him in Tennessee. He's a great friend and i'm blessed to serve beside him this summer!
If you're a friend of mine - thanks so much for your love and prayers! I couldn't do this without you! I think you're wonderful. And i'm looking forward to sharing this experience with you. Especially on our super cool blog.
Training starts on Tuesday! I am spending the last few days at home with friends and family, trying to avoid my packing crisis, and resting up before the craziness begins!
On Tuesday we head to Tulsa. The leadership for our trip, a trip to Chile and a trip to South Asia will be there. It will be a grand reunion! Then on Saturday morning we head to Dallas. On Saturday, our student leaders arrive and on Sunday the students come! We will train them on the drama and numerous other things until Thursday when we go to Peru! A long training, but beneficial and helpful.
Anyway. We'll try to update as much as we can. Ask questions. Leave messages telling us of your overwhelming love.