MVP is excited about our 2013 mission tours, our first tour dpearts in just a few days! We will certainly appreciate your prayers and all your support while our teams are in the field. We have serveral important updates to share about our Altiplano tour in July, a new tour in August, a reminder about supporting Casa de Esperanza, and tours this fall to Paraguay and Peru.

Ron Haynes, one of our in-country hosts from Lovely Feet Ministries is visiting the churches in our target zone for the tour this summer. Due to some community celebrations that would limit...     Continue Reading

Recently Fidel and Charita Corrales (Directors of Casa de Esperanza) have shared with us their growing concern—a very basic need—to pay all the bills associated with supporting 80+ children. Various changes require the orphanage to look to other churches and individuals to help support the children.

Our Mission at Casa de Esperanza:

With your help, we want to take care of these homeless children and young people, so they can find secure and productive place in the Bolivian societ...     Continue Reading

It is now Saturday evening and we had a Wonderful day! We walked downhill to a village called Playa, it took 1 hour to get down the hill but uphill was a bit more difficult. The return trip took about 90 minutes as the path was very muddy and slippery. We had two donkeys carry our supplies and had clinic in a small village church. People came from miles around to be treated. The nurses took extra time to pray with the patients and several of them stated they had never heard the name of Jesus! One lady asked Jessica – how do you receive Jesus? She took an apple and told her some people only see the apple (which doesn't help you), you must partake of the apple to receive its benefits. The woman's eyes lit up and she stopped and prayed with Jessica on the spot!Today we treated 100 patients (not counting glasses, fluoride and worm treatments), so our count is 940 patients + innumerable professions of faith which Pastor Trino promises to follow up on.Again, thank you for taking the time to read these letters and to pray for us!Today is Thursday and we are still in Marayhuca Incahuasi, so far we have had 6 clinics on this trip. Tomorrow we are traveling to an even more remote village (if it doesn't rain). This might be the last letter until Sunday! We have now treated close to 840 patients (not counting the vision test, the dispensing of prescription glasses, fluoride treatment in the schools, and deworming of the children in the schools). Just for fun I am going to give you a brief outline of a typical day: 615 AM – team wakes up, bathroom (4 blocks away), dress and close up our belongings. 730 AM walk to breakfast, and have a devotion. 815 brief team meeting and prayer for the day. 900-1230 Clinic, 1230 – 200 lunch, 200-600 clinic, 630-830 movie/church service. 900 supper and 1000, set up for bed and collapse in our sleeping bags. Wearing three layers, because the temp is 58 degrees. 615AM we will pack up, eat and head to the next village.

Man makes plans – God changes them! Last night it rained all night which means we could not travel up any higher, so we packed up the van, and tried to make it to another village which was ...     Continue Reading

Dear Family and Friends,

From September 20-28, 2012, we served with a team of 10 (7 from North Carolina, 1 from Chicago, Tom and I from the St. Louis region). We went to San Luis, Cuba at the request of Cuban Western...     Continue Reading

Our clinic tour through the department of Pando with a focus on the city and villages around Cobija has concluded and it was a great success! The plan was to go by river and take this grand adventure... God changed our plans a few weeks ago, and because of the flexibility and positive attitudes of this team, we ended up with a bigger better plan than we could have ever dreamt.

Pando is an incredible place, with incredible people... Our team often times was at the mercy of others, we went on faith after we lost our first coordinator to some political problems. But G...     Continue Reading

Nine months ago when we arrived in Sayhuani we found not a single Christian and a baby dying of starvation. The village felt that the family had “enough” children and pressured the mother into letting him die by not feeding him. The February team Bolivian doctors consulted with Maria (the mom) and she agreed to let us take the 8 day old baby with no name to the city of La Paz to see if he could be saved. Maria agreed and as an afterthought gave the baby the name Pedro.

Today, Pedro is living in Sayhuani healthy and happy with his family. About two weeks later Maria came to her senses and began to fight for her baby to live. Today, Sayhuani has a small ...     Continue Reading