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July 15 Around the WorldGreetings from Peru, South America! (It is currently Thursday, July 12th. I will probably be sending this next week after I get home, as I want to upload some pictures to show you first.) It is winter here. Although, winter in Peru means temperatures in the 50's and 60's. I'm here outside of Lima, Peru with Tammy on a missions trip with Focus on the Family. Their Teen Girls Magazine, Brio, does a missions trip each summer. There are almost 600 teen boys and girls and adults here with us. Brio brought Tammy down to do a concert one night for the people on the missions trip. But we've been able to go out with the teams to some of the communities to experience the missions work. One of the things that I got to do, which truly touched my life, is being able to wash the hair of some of the young boys and girls. Many of them have never had their hair washed. Water is scarce. As I touched their head and washed their hair, I prayed for each one, that God would bless their lives abundantly. Peru is a very poor country. Minimum wage is around $180/month. It hardly rains. And when it does, it's just a mist. It never actually rains. So, there is hardly any green, unless it's watered. The hotel/resort that we are staying in, has green trees and grass because they are out watering it every day. But when you go outside of the resort, everything is just dirt. The trees are even layered with dirt...because there's no rain to wash them off. But the people are very beautiful. "Muy Bonita!". Peru is a Catholic country. But the perfect place for missions trips...as they are a people in need...both physically and spiritually. Many Catholics are amazing Christian people. Yet there are many Catholics who rely so much on the "religion" that they overlook the "RELATIONSHIP". It's that personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and only that, which guarantees your salvation eternally. Life has been busy the last few months. We've actually had a couple of weeks in a row...in May and June...where we had those weekends off and were actually home in Nashville...which was nice. But I still work during the week in Tammy's office and on my web design work...so it feels like Heaven when we're actually home on the weekends...which doesn't happen too often. Usually I work every day...if not in the office...then out on the road with Tammy at her concerts. But I wouldn't trade it for the world. I work a lot...but I also am greatly blessed. I get to travel around the world for FREE :-) Even when I go on vacations with Tammy...they are usually paid for by her. I am greatly blessed for sure. In March, I had the opportunity to travel, with Tammy and Food for the Hungry, to Uganda, an African country suffering from the worst this world has to offer. A horrific war, in which innocent children are routinely stolen from their parents and forced into combat, has lasted 20 years and has all but destroyed a generation of human lives. On top of this, HIV/AIDS has killed thousands of Ugandan parents, leaving more than 1 million orphans in its wake. I realized that the most heartbreaking reality of the turmoil in Uganda is that the ones who suffer the most are the ones who have no choice: the children. While in Uganda, we visited two districts called Kitgum and Lira. In these broken places, God is bringing healing through Food for the Hungry projects! In Kitgum, we saw the New Life Center, a safe place for women who had been abducted as girls by rebel forces. These precious women can't get back their childhoods, but they really are given new chances at life through counseling, skills training, literacy classes and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. In Lira, we saw Food for the Hungry's child-development program, serving more than 700 children. Among other things, sponsored children receive school scholarships, medical exams, HIV/AIDS education, and regular visits from Food for the Hungry staff who talk and pray with the children and their families. These children are learning that the God of the universe values them and cares about their futures. I have pictures from both Peru and Uganda online to show you. You can view them by going to: http://anitarundell.spaces.live.com. Also, there is a great video of our trip to Uganda. It's a video that Food for the Hungry made from footage of our trip and put it to the music of one of Tammy's songs called "Is Anybody Willing". You can view the video by going to this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA7BKmYtre8. If you are interested in learning more about Food for the Hungry and/or would like to get more information on sponsoring a child through Food for the Hungry, you can do so by going to http://www.fh.org/tammytrent. You can change a life for as little as $28/month. Until next time... By His Grace, Anita Rundell Comments (3)
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