Peruvian Way

Grace Church

Just before heading back to Lima were our baby will be born, we had a great time with a team from my home church in Amarillo, Texas. Not only were they blessed but Sandra and I as well were blessed and encouraged. It was cool to see a bunch of youth come to a foreign country not knowing the language yet stepping out  in faith and allowing the Lord to use them.

It was a busy week for us but all worth it. The two main events that we did were a youth camp and a marriage conference. They both were a blessing for all… For the youth camp we had 60 kids all together and 2 days of fun; teachings (taught by James Grizzle youth pastor at Grace), worship, fellowship, lots and lots of prizes, games, FOOD and etc… The youth were from 4 different churches; one from El Terminal, the other from Pastor Javier’s Baptist church, our ministry in Ucayali, and Albert’s ministry in Belen.  We all left w/ great memories and new friends…

The marriage conference we believe was life changing for lots. We had about 15 couples and some singles as well, it was a great turn out. Paul and Laura Grizzle held the conf. and taught from Ephesians 5, for many of them it was their first time seeing how to treat their husbands and wives as Christians. How to respect and love each other, how to wash your wife w/ the Word of God, how to submit, how to pray with each other, and etc. For them to hear all this was so cool, marriages were touched and changed FOREVER…!!!

We also did children ministry in Belen and Panguana, as well we had time for dramas on the blvd. And the cool thing with that was for most of them, it was their first time to evangelize. And even though they didn’t know the language the Lord still used them…. w/ faith all things are possible!

Even though it was busy for us through out the whole week, we truly were blessed by all and had such a great time of fellowship. Thank you all…..!!!!

Baby

After the team left we got to work and packed things away and stored it all in a storage and headed to lima. When getting to Limaafter a few days we had a surprise… What we thought was going to be a normal check up for Sandra and the baby ended up us staying in the hospital for 6 days due to early contractions.

We are home now, praise the Lord!!!! Sandra is good and so is the baby… but it was a bit shock for us!!! Now being home Sandra has to be on bed rest. Please pray for Sandra and Eliya (?) Nona Swan (this is the name we are thinking of), that she stays in until her due date, Sept. 18th.

We are so excited and can’t wait for this lil’ blessing, see how she looks and all the great memories we will have…

Thank you all for your prayers and support and for our soon to be baby girl…!!!

“And as for you, be fruitful and multiply….!”

Well it looks like we are applying the Word to our lives…

It’s been ages since I have written but before giving an official update on things, we would just like to share the great news with all of you that we are having a baby. Sandra is 12 weeks and 4 days, she is due September 22. This is our second time to get an ultrasound and the picture you see here is the one we just recently got.

The doctor said that the baby is good and healthy. We don’t know yet what the sex is but we are hoping for a boy. Sandra has been pretty good so far, not to much nausea but just here and there, which we thank the Lord for.

We would like to thank you all for your unending prayers and support for us. And as well that you would pray for the new addition that we are about to have to our family.

We are still in Iquitos but before the baby is born we are heading to Lima where we will have he/she.

Just a quick update on ministry as well, we have started a new bible study in the central area near Belen. It has been going on almost 2 months now. It has been going good… I am teaching through the book of John w/ them.

There will be more to come in the next update on details and more news on how things are.

Thank you all again for the prayers, support, and rejoicing with us as we celebrate a new life being born!!!

Jeremy, Sandra, and Baby

“I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken from it. God does it, that men should fear before Him.” Ecclesiastes 3:14

We just wanted to let everyone know that my time in Lima went great… we couldn’t of asked for more in how the wedding went!!!! It was priceless, and we would like to thank all of you for all that you have done, the prayers, the gifts, the support and for being a part of our lives in this dream coming true of us coming together.As well, thanks to mine and Sandra’s family for all that you guys have done for us… we love you so much!!!! Our prayer is that the Lord would bless all of you beyond words…

Soon we will have a more detailed update on how things went but i would like to let you know that we have lots of pictures out on the website and a slideshow on the video page of what we showed at our wedding.

Also we will try and get our wedding video put on the website but will take some time to edit and put it all together but we will let you know when we get it out.

To look at the photos go to the page Photos and click on the ones that say:

• Our Wedding
• Dominican Honeymoon
• Pre-wedding
• Wedding pics. of friends & us

To see the video go to the page Videos and click on the third video or just watch all three.

And with that we would like to ask for your prayers; today as our first step of faith as being married we are heading back to Iquitos and will continue to serve there as the Lord leads us.

As well please pray for:

• A house for us and some things for it; such as bed, microwave, furniture, refrigerator, but for the most part we have a lot, thanks to all of you…!!!
• Our new transition as newly weds
• The ministry
• What the Lord would have for us there
• Time for each other and w/ the Lord
• Much love to all,
• Jeremy and Sandra Swan