Siembra S.O.W. ~ Street Ministry in Peru

Siembra S.O.W. is still going strong. In Peru, the ministry continues under the leadership of Carmen, while in the Dominican Republic, it grows under the leadership of Luis and Adeline, the foun...

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Carmen, who took over the reigns of Siembra S.O.W. in Lima, Peru has been giving me so many amazing testimonies of what's been happening with the women on the streets of Lima and she has finally...

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So I lied. I had said in my previous blog post that it would be the last until we move to the DR.  But.  I can't just leave it hanging. So, here's another post.  Siembra S.O.W. is now i...

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I need a break. I've been feeling it in my body and knowing that I need a break from doing ministry, from counseling, from helping people in general. This might sound really bad but I need this ...

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 Throughout the course of our living here in this area of Lima, I've spoken to, counseled and shared Jesus with 2 girls at the park where we take our dogs. You read about one of them in my last...

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Today was a hard day for Luis and I. We got a call a few days ago from a mom whose daughter I had met in a park close to our home last April/May. The girl was sitting on a park bench and as I wa...

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We are in transition. The ministry and us. We have known for a while that the Lord was sending us out of Peru. We just didn't know exactly when. Or where. So we left it to the Lord to reveal it ...

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As 2012 comes to a close, I reflect on all that has happened this year and give thanks to the Lord of Harvest. For this ministry, it has been a year of harvest, of seeing God's hand in everythin...

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We received a call from JP's mom today after a long while. She had moved along with her husband and three younger children to a piece of  property that they had bought which is a testimony all ...

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Sometimes we have to be hard to be kind. Sometimes we have to stop mollycoddling so that people can grow and start taking responsibility for themselves. Oftentimes we don't do that. We think we ...

http://siembra-sow.blogspot.com/2012/11/talking-nice.html

It was only a matter of time. Darkness always needs to feed off itself to grow. And it was no exception here. In the world of vice, there are no friends. There are companions who will play at be...

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Kinda freaking out a little. Ok, maybe more than a little. I found out today that the foreign women at the jail that I counsel and teach got transferred to a new facility north of Lima. The oppo...

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We were recently privileged to be able to help out with an organization away from here that works with exploited peoples; one of them being women who work the streets. It was so much  worse tha...

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I'm physically tired. Been needing a night guard (bruxism guard) for a while as I grind my teeth while sleeping and I haven't changed my night guard for about 6 years and half of the acrylic has...

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A few things are on my mind today. First, I should follow through with what I had mentioned in my FB post about the testimony of the women in prison. They're literally taking the Lord at His Wor...

http://siembra-sow.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-way-of-god.html

When God called me to do this ministry and I said yes, I didn't know how much of my heart I had to give away. I didn't know how much it would hurt. How a huge chunk of me grieves because one tee...

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I had been praying for a long time to at least know what's happened to so many of the guys we hadn't seen for so long. Luis Enrique, Jose Luis, Luis Gustavo, Henry and his girlfriend Jessica, to...

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It says in the bible that God's arm is not too short to save. I used to gloss over that verse wondering why in the world would the Lord use the allegory of an arm. I knew it meant that God is ab...

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One soul is worth it all. And if we hit the streets just so one life can be transformed by the Lord Jesus Christ, then it's worth it. However, I know I want more than one. I want them all to be ...

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I am thankful that God is in control and loves us more than we could love each other. Honestly, if I didn't have that knowledge, I would be constantly in a state every time I didn't hear from on...

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The 5 traits of highly successful people, paraphrased from the Washington Post: 1. Stray away from the norm. It takes a major cognitive shift to understand that the way things are, and have be...

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The deeper we get into this ministry, the more we realize one thing; that people desperately need to be loved, especially by their parents. Over and over again, those whom we are counseling tell...

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I love my job. It's not a high powered executive job with the benefits of a picture window overlooking miles and miles of skyscrapers nor will it make me a millionaire; it doesn't make me a pers...

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I don't know how to begin. Where to begin. I guess I can start with tonight. There was a huge police presence in Ciudad tonight. Not just the regular police but what looked like SWAT teams as we...

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EM has been regularly showing up for her discipling session and we talked about her leaving the streets and trusting God to provide for her as she takes this step of obedience. She told me that ...

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