February 28, 2002

Dear Friends,

Wow, has the month of February flown by. Anita and I have been in seven different States this past month! Several conferences and usually speaking in two churches each Sunday and some Wednesday night services has been our busy way of life recently. We have put close to five thousand miles on the car since the middle of January until the end of February.Although the pace is very tiring it is certainly a blessing to renew old acquaintances and make some new ones. All of the churches we have visited have been most gracious and extended true Christian love and hospitality to my wife and me. We now have every Sunday booked up until our return in May but we do have a few Wednesday night services open for any other churches desiring for us to come and share about the work in Peru. Our pace will continue to be very hectic until our return to Peru, so please remember to pray for us that the Lord would continue to give us good health and traveling mercies. Thanks. The love offerings that the churches are giving us personally will go to purchase some much needed equipment for the work.

Reports from Peru are good. We had about thirty of our young people from Huanuco attend the annual youth camp. The total attendance was around two hundred and fifty and this year it was held on the Pacific coast. I haven't heard anything from the work in Huaral this month yet so I assume all is going well there. We have been trying to raise some additional funds for construction in Huaral upon our return to Peru. If you would like to have a part in this project then you can designate your offering to the "Stanton Building Fund." The reports from Chasqui and the other works are good. Anita and I really miss the saints there. Many folks have expressed interest in visiting us in Peru sometime in the within the next two years. We hope you all will really come down. Anita and I always love to have our friends come and see first hand what the Lord is doing in Peru. They always go away encouraged and on fire for missions.

Our son, Joshua, should graduate from Officer Candidate School April 5. He will be a II Lieutenant in the Air Force upon graduation. Please continue to remember him in your prayers. Our daughter, Leah, lives in Covington, KY and is working in Cincinnati, Ohio. We have enjoyed the late evening phone conversations with her. We miss our kids a lot when we are in Peru. But we also love our work and would not want to trade places with anyone in the world. The Lord has been so good to us during our nineteen years in Peru and we are anticipating even more blessings for the future. Until next month.

On furlough in the States,

Sheridan and Anita Stanton

Faith Baptist Mission in Huaral, Peru