Robin and Tracy Shelley: Terre Haute

The team is visiting from Terre Haute, Indiana. They are being a great blessing to us and to the people here.

Pastor Dave Hole hanging out, reading to the kids.

Fixing the fixings in the bathroom...

Even the kids were helping out folding some tracts with the church's address on it.

Eating over at Lucha's. Christin looks pretty excited for the food!!
Josh and Jorge

Tammy and Jodi at the church. This was our first meeting in the church.

Everybody's pretty excited!!

Yay!

It was a full house. Have we grown out of our space already? Hahhahahhahaaa!!

Carlos leading the way.

This was Friday night. The kids we have (plus 2 babies). Friday we showed Fireproof in the evening. On Saturday we had a couple's Bible study. There were even more kids then!! Woo hoo!

The group has done a lot of fixing things around our apartment and in the church. This morning they all went out to the basketball court by our house and played with the neighborhood kids. This evening we got a random knock on the door. It was some of the kids they'd played with this morning coming by just to see if we were going to play again tomorrow.

Tomorrow we are going to meet at La Huacachina to have some worship, a little devotion and some fellowship together with the group and the church. It's been really great getting together with everyone almost everyday. The Lord is moving.

Robin & Tracy Shelley: Terre Haute

Shelley Missionary Page

It's not too late to bless a missionary

My friend Jeff emailed this blog post he read over on Piper's blog:

13 Ways to Bless Missionaries Without Paying for Postage
December 19, 2007  |  By: Tia
Category: International Outreach

Were you unable to send a Christmas present or care package to some missionaries you love this season? It’s okay. You can still bless a missionary this Christmas.

Here are 13 post-office-free ideas to get you started, most of which you could do right now from your desk:

• Pray specific Scripture for them and their ministry, and then email it to them.


• Call or email their parents—Christmas might be just as lonely for the ones at home as the ones away.


• Purchase phone minutes for an international calling card through an online service like OneSuite and email them the account number.


• Donate frequent flier miles to them.


• Purchase an iTunes gift card for them. Have it sent to you and email them the account number.


• Commit to pray for them on a specific day of the week for a year.


• Write a song or poem or story for them. Email them the text and a recording of you reading or singing it.


• Get friends and family together to create a holiday video greeting for them using Google Video or YouTube. Include lots of people you know they miss.


• Make a year-end gift through their missions board or agency.


• Western Union—the fastest way to send money.


• Call their local florist (not everyone is in the jungle these days) and have flowers delivered, or their local Pizza Hut and have pizza delivered—with corn and shrimp as toppings!


• Donate to a charity that means a lot to them.


• Make a monthly commitment to support them financially.

If you have your own ideas, respond to this post and let us know what they are. Maybe next year we can offer 50 suggestions, or 100.

(Remember to use d iscernment in written or video communication if your missionaries work in security-sensitive locations.)

HT: Desiring God