Back Home - Fan the Flame

Well we made it home. This is a photo of the Lima group eating in Atlanta. I have not heard anything from those who traveled back to California, but I am trusting they too slept in their own beds last night. It was an amazing journey, and I will most likely continue to post some thoughts as well as pictures of the trip over the next couple of weeks. Please continue to ask any questions that you may have, either in the comments or stop any of us you see at church. I look forward to worshiping with many of you this weekend. I can not thank you enough for your support over the past two weeks. Here are a few quick stats. We saw over 900 people through the clinic, ministered to hundreds of kids, put on 4 Jesus films, and collected many names of those interested in having a church family in their communities. Hopefully our work will aid the 40/40 long term missionaries as they seek to plant churches in those communities we visited.
You will notice from the picture that many of us on the outside still look very much the same, but as you talk to us you will quickly realize we are very different. The mission of Extreme Nazarene was to carry the Light into Peru. The fire has started and will continue to burn as work moves forth in Peru. My prayer is that this fire becomes an inferno. My prayer continues to include those of us who returned. You see some of that fire burns inside each of us. My prayer is that as time passes and memories start to fade that this fire continues, even more, that it would grow. It too becoming an inferno, igniting our communities' hearts toward those in Peru. But even more than that, igniting our hearts for the living God, who pursues and seeks us with a passion that we can not imagine. The fire is started, let's fan the flame. be blessed