The Parsonage of Campanilla Church of the Nazarene

This is a blog about the parsonage in Campanilla. We have been working on the house to get it ready for after we are married, so when I got to Campanilla, it had been cleaned, as much as you can with spaces in the walls, and the framework for the walls had been put up. We decided to make two bedrooms, even though there are plans to build a new church where the house is in 2014. But if anyone wants to visit before then, we will have a room for you!!!! There is also a living room, bathroom, and kitchen. These are pictures of the house before and to the point of a week ago. Two of the young men, who happen to be cousins of Sixto, of the church came and helped Sixto put the pressed board up for the walls. Then two weeks later we painted the walls. We ran out of blue and yellow before we were done, so the kitchen has three walls painted and the living room only two. Take a look and see what you think.



This is before any of the pressed board went up for walls.

 

 

The "master bedroom" and the door to outside. This is the

back door, although we don't have a front door yet!!!

This is the kitchen. It is to the right of the back door.

This is a view of the kitchen and living room from the spare bedroom. There is a hallway between the master bedroom and the kitchen that goes to the back door.

The bathroom is behind the "master bedroom". Originally, the door was going to be outside, but then we decided it was better to have access through the house instead.

This is Josue on the table and Nixon behind the table. They helped get all the pressed board up on the framework.

Yesenia came with me to take pictures and see just what was going on with this silly guys.

 

 

Sixto helped too. I must say, I only took pictures of them working. :-)

After the Painting

 

The hallway to the backdoor, and into the kitchen. Some of the blue looks a different color, but it is all the same, just the lighting. The yellow is about the color of margarine. We painted three walls of the kitchen, but the fourth will have to wait until we have more paint. Both sides of the hallway are light blue. and the back of the door too. We also painted one wall in the living room yellow.






The spare bedroom is also light blue, and one wall of the living room. The rest of the living room is suppose to be yellow and blue as well, but we ran out of blue too, so it has to wait too. In this picture you can see the doorway to the bathroom through the master bedroom.




















The master bedroom is pear green. We got all four walls painted well with the green, but used all the green. It is a refreshing color.

The other wall in the master bedroom. The walls in the spare bedroom are a little sparse on the paint. It definitely needs some more. We only had enough paint to do the run with a roller, and no trim work.

The yellow wall of the living room and the walls of the kitchen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just wanted to give a little update of what we are doing. Hope all is going well for everyone. Just a few more days until the wedding! We have a prayer request. That is for Sixto's visa interview on May 7. Please pray that all goes well so we can come to the states in August for a visit. Thanks for all your prayers!!!

Update from Campanilla (well, Juanjui)

So, I have been in Campanilla for just about a month now. I am enjoying getting to know the people of the church and family members a little better.
 I am working with Women's Ministry in the church, so if you have any ideas, please send them my way. We have Women's Ministry meeting every Wednesday! For me, it seems like a lot, but the women are enjoying it. We are doing a series of lessons on Friendship. So the first week I was in charge completely (because the first week I was in charge, it wasn't completely because it was the last week of a Bible quiz competition between the women on the book of Esther), I made a jigsaw puzzle. On the picture side were three silohuettes (a teenage girl, an adult woman, and an elderly woman). When everyone came, they received a puzzle piece. I had them put their name on the back of their piece. There were 48 pieces and only 12 women, so I then had them try and place their piece where they thought it should go (I forgot my camera...sorry!).It made a horrible picture! So, then I gave them the rest of the pieces, and they got busy putting it together. I had to give them the hint that the scripture around the edge of the puzzle was Ecclesiastes 4:10, about two are better than one because if one falls the other can help him up...It took about 30 minutes to get it all together. Then, we talked about how a puzzle is like our group of ladies...1. We make a pretty picture, 2. We come with different and unique shapes (talents and gifts), 3. We may have missing pieces that we need to search for, 4. We need to accept the broken and damaged pieces and help them be restored, 5. We have many pieces...We looked up scriptures to go with each one of the 5 things...The following week, we looked more into the passage in Ecclesiastes (4:1-12), and some of the ladies who come regularly, but don't participate usually, participated.
This coming week, we are going to talk about enjoying our differences, and we are going to disassemble the puzzle, write the names of the ladies of the church who are not attending, and if we still have pieces, the names of friends and neighbors who are not Christians, and then the ladies are going to draw pieces from the basket to take home and pray for the ladies whose name is on the back of the pieces. I will try to remember to get a picure of the puzzle before we disassemble it this week. Like I said above, if you have any ideas, please send them my way!
 This past Thursday, Friday, and today, we (Sixto and I) went to Moyobamba to the district pastor's retreat. We were officially presented to the district pastors. Many of them didn't know Sixto because he has only been on this district since November. We have internet tonight, because when we got back to Juanjui, there were no cars to Campanilla, so we are in a hospedaje here in Juanjui. I am in a room on the fourth floor, and he on the third, enjoying a little internet time.
 God bless, and please continue to pray for us, the work in Campanilla, and the adventures yet to come!

I remembered to take a picture!!!!!!

Big Changes Coming Very Soon



Well, big changes are coming for me in the next week or so. On February 25th, I will be leaving Arequipa to head to Campanilla, San Martin. The last year, I have been working with many short term teams here in Peru, which I have enjoyed immensely. I have been able to see more of Peru than ever before (you can see details of that life on my old blog, katieandersonperu.blogspot.com, which I can't continue because I forgot the password and I can't get it recovered by any of the options offered by blogger). Anyway, now I am going to be heading into a different position, one I have been looking forward to for a long time: that of "pastor's wife". Like I said, on February 25th, I will be heading to Campanilla in San Martin. This is a very small town in the jungle of San Martin, not too far from Tarapoto (about 2 1/2 hours). On April 20th, I will be marrying Sixto Gaona Becerra, who happens to be the pastor there in Campanilla. So, I guess the blog changing is really just a precursor to the changes that are going to come in our lives very soon. There will be monthly trips to Pucallpa to help with some of the church plants there, but overall, I will be serving as pastora, simply by marriage, not by skill. I have also heard that I will be the president of Women's ministry, so I am looking forward to that too. Thank you for your prayers for us as we start this new chapter together in our lives. I will try to keep this updated, but internet is an issue in Campanilla. We are working on that. :-) Below are several pictures of us and Sixto's family. Enjoy!

Sixto and I enjoying a pop after a long walk.

Sixto and I at a natural park close to Moyabamba

Sixto and I at the castle in Lamas

Noé and Dalila, Sixto's two youngest siblings

Anibal and Liliana, Sixto's brother and sister-in-law

Orlando and Yobani, Sixto's brother and sister-in-law

 

Edwin, Nancy, and Danilo, Orlando's three oldest

Sixto's dad and his wife

The men of the family with me, Noé, Orlando, Sixto, Anibal, Hermano Emiliano