If you'd like to read more about the strikes you can click here. I've heard they are going to be bigger this week and possibly affect international travel. So it looks like it is going to be another week of mostly staying in the office. But there still have been people coming to class, so that's a good thing. And we have a couple of translators out on trips right now because their teachers are on strike and they therefore do not have classes right now.

This morning we went to church with the Austins to a place called las Torres. I loved the place. It is one of the really poor areas in Lima. We had to walk up a lot of steps to get to the building where they have church and as we were walking up we passed by a lot of people standing on the stairs while passing buckets full of rocks up. I found out that there had often been rocks falling from higher up on the hill and they would hit the homes. So the IMB has given some money to the area so that they can build a wall to help protect their homes. The people still have to build it, but the IMB is paying for the materials.

The people worked up until the point that it was time to come to church. At that time Victor, a guy working in the area, announced that church was going to start. So a lot of the people stopped working to come to the service. The message itself was only about 10 minutes long. They do this so that the people can repeat it and also so that they will not feel that they cannot share the Word. The people here are so used to the priest doing everything in the church. It is going to take a lot of work in this area to get the people involved. Next week Claudia and I are going to do a Bible story with the children and then we're going to ask one of the local people to do it the next week. This way they will not rely on the gringos and other missionaries to do the work. You can tell that God is really working in this area and I think He has big plans for them in the future!