Pray for 2 VRBC mission teams

This week, commit to pray for two mission teams going out from VRBC:

VRBC Christmas Store leaders Donna Blankenship, Teresa Brundige, Kathy Lonborg, Janis Townsend and Amy Wilkins, along with Amy's mom Betsy Dwight, leave Tuesday for a week in Peru to help with the Christmas Store in Lima. On Wednesday they will visit VRBC-sponsored missionaries Javier and Patricia Ibanez, who pastor a church plant in more affluent area of Lima, where evangelical Christianity is rare. On Thursday, the group will visit VRBC-sponsored missionaries Juvenal and Katty Bejar in a destitute area of Lima, where they will teach dental hygiene to school children, feed lunch to children from the community, and work with children and parents at the Bejars' church. Friday through Sunday will be spent helping our sister church El Buen Pastor, where they will serve 300 children and their families through the Christmas Store. Just like at VRBC, we will wrap gifts, serve as GPS, distribute stockings, and assist in whatever way we can. On Monday we will visit the children we sponsor through Compassion International, and then we fly home in the early morning hours on Tuesday.

A men's trip leaves Wednesday for Guatemala City to minister to orphans with Buckner. Pray for trip participants Kevin Ashby, Jeff Jones, John Lookabaugh, Steve Massey Jim Mustain, Jason Spoor and Bill Steadman. On Thursday they will do Bible study and sports camp at Hogar Solidario with the boys in the San Gabriel home. On Saturday they will do discipleship activities and relationiship building with boys in both of Buckner's transitional homes, and then on Sunday they return home.

Please pray for both of these teams, not only for safe travel but also that they would be filled with the Spirit, that God would work both in and through them, that they would be blessed with relationships and would be able to serve and extend God's kingdom through their mission work in Peru and Guatemala.