Gonzalez – July 2010

We can’t believe the first half of the year is already gone! We have been very busy in the Amazon with seven different teams from churches around United States. We have done construction, installed Water Purification systems, Medical clinics, Native Youth Purity Conferences, Woman’s Conferences and feeding the children.

The most significant of all our activities has been to touch the people, to minister to their deepest need, preaching salvation and divine healing. In every meeting we have seen men and women, young and old, receiving Jesus in their hearts.

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Gonzalez – April 2010

We just returned from another trip to the Amazon with a church team from Alabama and another one from Montana. We ministered in several of the Children Feeding Stations, mostly in Brazil and Peru. We built eight tables for the children at the feeding station in Islandia, Peru where 150 children receive ministry and food each school day.

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Gonzalez – June 09

The Amazon river is huge, is beautiful, but it is not clean. Its waters are very contaminated, not suitable for drinking by any means. Many children have died from dysentery. The solution is neither simple or cheap. It’s not only the large financial price per unit but the cost on labor, time and effort to overcome overwhelming difficulties unheard of and not understood by any body who doesn’t live or minister in the Amazon jungle.

Hours of sweaty work under the Amazon’s sun, digging ditches, cutting and connecting pipes, water pumps and solar panels, carrying several 2,000 litter water tanks on a dugout canoe across the Amazon river, building wood platforms and installing water purification systems. It all seems like another extravagant and expensive construction worksite. But it is not. It is a deeply spiritual mission’s project. In a village where two or three children die each month from drinking putrid, contaminated water, offering a cup of clean, pure drinking water, saving a life, it is a very spiritual and evangelistic project!

BARRIO NUEVO, COLOMBIA
Just outside of Leticia, the people were having to collect their drinking water from the surrounding jungle swamp where they also had to do their laundry and take their baths. Most children were suffering intestinal and skin diseases caused by water contamination. To see the putrid water turning into crystal clear drinking water was a real answer to their prayers!

To have a new water purification system installed in their community was a serious reason for celebration. We all got together in prayer and thanked God for it and for the Living Water that has been flowing among them ministered by Lucy, from the children’s home. This community is in real need of a strong church to continue feeding them spiritually.

ISLANDIA, PERU
Edgardo, a former drug traffic leader in Peru, who had 15 bodyguards around him at all times, is now the pastor of the most remote church from his denominational headquarters in Lima. As we arrive on our boat to the port at Islandia, we can see a number of children swimming and playing on the water. In spite of the building being on stills 25 ft. high from the ground, as we walk into the church we find ourselves performing a great miracle! We were actually walking on water!

The flood established a new record this year. Many houses have been taken away by the high waters. The water has reached up and flooded the church. The Bible school students ministered to the local children with songs, Bible lessons and games.
The food program and the purified water are great tools helping Pastor Edgardo to share God’s love to this community!

FILADELFIA, BRAZIL
Clauber and Deonora minister to over 300 children coming each day for tutoring classes, Bible lessons, games and a nutritious lunch. The need for water is always a great challenge. After the WPS and more reservoir tanks have been installed, the children at Clauber’s school are enjoying over 23,000 liters of healthy, purified water.
Three Water Purification Systems installed. One on each country. Over three thousand dollars spent per unit to supply pure water at each Indian community.

What price tag could we place on the smiling faces of a young mother and her two year old daughter drinking pure water FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THEIR LIVES?

The value of the results of your mission monthly support to Amazon Xpeditions: PRICELESS!

We have three more Water Purification Systems to be installed in other needy communities. Your contribution will make it possible.