In The Amazon

Yes, Jesus is in the Amazon and doing great things there. We took 10 people from the U.S. on a mission trip way up the Amazon. We flew into Iquitos, Peru. Iquitos is considered the most isolated city in the world. There are no roads there. You can only get there by plane or boat; unless of coarse your bobble head Jesus, then you can ride in my backpack. From Iquitos we traveled 180 miles in a small boat to reach Santa Rita.

The mission center there was built by my mission organization, JungleMaster Ministries. We stayed in the mission building and were able to help with the painting and some finishing touches on the center. While there we decided we needed to prepare a community dinner in Santa Rita for all that wished to come. We purchased lots of food in Iquitos. Cases of rice, beans hotdogs and 10 live chickens. We had so much stuff to take up river we ended up sending two of our Peruvian team ahead of us on the ferry with a truck load of food and water. But we hadn't been in Santa Rita very long before Grant realized that there was no way we could prepare and cook that much stuff. We just didn't know how! Grant solved the problem by finding the village cook and hiring her to cater the affair. It wasn't long before she had dug two trenches in the ground and built a fire in the depressions. She then set the pots over the fire pit and soon she had two HUGE pots of rice, one pot of beans and one full of a jungle sauce and 7 of the chickens that we brought along. The team became the servers and the word spread that the gringos are making dinner. We had over 150 people at our dinner. We know because we opened three packages of 50 paper plates plus a few out of the fourth. Keep in Mind, everyone had a plate with rice, beans, hot dogs and a piece of chicken. Go back now and count the number of chickens we slaughtered. Seven, thats right....God fed 150 people with 7 chickens. The whole team knew what God was doing but no one said anything till it was over. Every person on the team kept looking at the chicken on the plates then going back to the pot and seeing if there was chicken left. When we were finished there was chicken for the cooks to take home! Finally someone had the courage to say, "did you see what happen here? The pot never went down while we were feeding the people. The chicken kept coming and coming!" It was true! When we had fed everyone, it was like the pot sighed and settled down to just enough for the helper to get chicken too! ........... telling this story again makes my skin tingle and my eyes water.....what a loving, merciful God we serve!

The people of the town were talking later how the Catholic Church has dinners but only feed themselves. Never do they invite everyone like the Evangelical Church!