October 30, 2004

Dear Friends,

Do you remember going to summer camp when you were a kid? Some of my best memories as a child are from Boones Creek Baptist Camp! Summer Christian Youth Camp in Peru is always in the month of February and always a time of fellowship, spiritual growth, and boys and girls trusting in Christ as their Savior. While you folks in the United States are freezing to death in February, we are in our summer time here in Peru. We are doing something different this coming year for camp; instead of renting out a school building we have decided to rent a recreational area that has great facilities except not enough sleeping quarters. We need help in purchasing sixty tents at twenty seven dollars each. That is a total of one thousand six hundred and twenty dollars, $1620.00. Having tents gives us more options as to where and how we have camp each year. We plan to purchase more tents in the next few years until we have enough. But we envision the day when we can have permanent camp facilities. Anita and I ask you to pray with us that the Lord will not only supply this need but also that we will have the most spiritually rewarding camp ever! Thanks.

All of the mission works are reporting good services and attendance. I stay busy teaching, preaching and overseeing the construction project we have going on here in Huanuco. Anita and I both are active in discipling new converts each week. I baptized four two weeks ago and we have several more to be baptized next week. God is good!

We are anxiously waiting for three more groups from the States that will be visiting us this next year. Anita and I want to encourage all of you to get involved in a mission trip sometime. It is usually a positive life changing experience. So, go visit and help one of your missionaries, it will probably change your perspective on life. Check with Randy and Barbara Jones of the Baptist Faith Missions, Mission Adventure Teams. They can orientate you as to what trips are available. But remember, you can always come to Peru!

I would also like to encourage each church to consider an increase in your giving to the General Fund of Baptist Faith Missions. The fund has not quite been breaking even in the past several months. This is called the "work horse fund" of BFM because out of it each missionary receives his standard monthly offering plus some for expenses, medical insurance, car fund, educational expenses for the missionaries' children on the field and all the "unforeseen expenses." God has not called everyone to work on the foreign field but HE has called us to be co-laborers together with HIM. Let's all do our part in helping to spread the Gospel of Jesus to this lost and dying world! God bless you all.

Until next month,

Serving Jesus in Peru,

Sheridan and Anita Stanton