Calling, Calling, Calling...
"God bless the missionaries and all that they do."
Well, here is one thing that missionaries on deputation must do without fail or they will never reach the mission field-call!  Hours and hours of calling individuals, churches, pastors.  Hours and hours of looking for new contacts from friends, family, acquaintances, the internet.  You name it....we've searched it!  Or if we haven't yet, please let us know so we can. :)

Pray for Eric as he calls today and throughout the week.  Pray that the person on the other end of the phone will be helpful and considerate.  Pray that Eric will be concise and clear in his message.  Pray that doors would be opened for us to present the work in Peru.  Pray that people will be up front about whether or not they can join our support team.  Pray for sanity as two little children run around in the background and sometimes interrupt the calm flow of the day. (Ha, ha!  Haven't seen a calm one yet.)

Most importantly, pray for Eric to stay encouraged as it may take 20 or 30 calls to reach someone who would like to receive our information packet.  Then it might take 10 of those packets being sent out to schedule one meeting.  And then it might take 20 meetings for our support to increase by 1%.  So you can only imagine the amount of stress and discouragement this could cause. Yet through it all we know that God is in control of EVERYTHING!  And if this is the small task that He asks of us on our way to Peru, then we will do it gladly.  Pray that we will not be weary in well doing!