Sunday Night Life 9/12

Sunday Night Life was a huge success! What a blessing for all involved. We had a terrific turn-out with lots of folks, young and old, newcomers and old-timers, married and single. The food was delicious, the fellowship was fantastic, and the classes were friendly and informative. A huge thanks to all of you who helped out!

Please feel free to join us for our remaining 5 weeks (every Sunday night until 10/17). We would love to see you enjoy this great time of community. Space for our dinner together is limited and our seats fill-up quickly, so in order to eat with us you must make sure to save your spot by going to http://mysignup.com/pbcc or contact Linda Marten (lindamarten@gmail.com). We have lots of room for our classes, so even if you don’t make the dinner at 5:30pm please come to the classes that start at 6:15pm.

If you need child-care you must make a reservation with Lisa Harmon at lisaharmon2220@sbcglobal.net

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at andy@pbcc.org.

See you Sunday!

Andy Drake

And take at look some SNL photos!

Peru Medical Mission Report and Pictures

The Peru Medical Team is back home safely, and reports that the Lord gave them many opportunities to share God's love and to see about 250 come to faith in Christ! Please go to the MPPC website for day-by-day reports as well as dozens of photos.

Peru Medical Mission Update Tuesday 9/7

Our ministry was super slow this morning due to a Catholic church fiesta being held today, so we prayed and sang and walked around town talking with different groups about the clinics and the church we were working with. By 11 am we had quite a crowd of interested and hurting people. One man in particular comes to mind. His daughter had heard of our presence, so came to the clinic to ask about her father who was bedridden at home due to a paralyzing injury twenty years earlier. We sent a few people with her to the home and checked him out, prayed with him and presented the gospel to him via the Evangicube. In the end, with tears in his eyes, he accepted Christ. In the afternoon we sent the pastor with another delegation to him, this time with medicines for a few medical problems but also with a device called the Proclaimer that has the New Testament on cassette. It is solar powered and requires no batteries or other power for operation. He cannot read due to the accident´s effect on his vision, so this aural Bible will be a real blessing. The pastor will continue visiting him to help him grow in his faith.

By the end of the day we had seen many patients with the usual variety of physical complaints, all of whom also received the touch of the Gospel message in the counseling and prayer. The day has been an emotional roller coaster with the spiritual warfare of the morning.

We are all functioning well together as a team. The relations with the non-Bay Area people has been a tremendous blessing as we have been mutually encouraging to one another. (Steve Belton)

Peru Medical Mission Update Monday 9/6

The Lord is evident in the events of our trip to date. We made it through customs without problems - the meds were not a problem at all and the paperwork delay turned out to not create any difficulty at all. There were two public health officials there to meet us and check our drugs for expiration dates - and we then passed through.

Madeleine and team were present at the airport to greet us and we made our way to the hotel in Lima without problem, arriving there at about 2am. Sunday we travelled to Cocachacra, a small pueblo deep in the valleys northeast of Lima. (Beautiful setting, by the way, with great weather and very comfortable accommodations.) The people from the church host are wonderful and we spent some holy moments with them in worship on Sunday night after having set up the clinic supplies and pharmacy that afternoon. One man shared that he had fasted for the past few days in anticipation of the clinic outreach and that he would fast for the clinic days. Others shared that they have been in prayer for one year for their neighbors to come to Christ through the work of the clinic.

Today´s clinic was slow enough to allow us to work the "bugs" out of our systems and processes but was busy enough that it was a fulfilling day for all. The dental work is strong, the medical team is well balanced and working well, the pharmacy is busy and efficient, the public health teaching has started, and the evangelism team is doing a superb job of praying and speaking with each and every patient seen. Today 41 persons prayed to receive Christ and 11 of those people specifically asked that the pastor would visit them in their home in the next week or so. What a blessing to see the Lord´s hand in all of this!

Please continue to pray that God would have His hand in and on all that transpires here, both with each of us individually and with each of the nationals. What a glorious time of fellowship and service this is. ¡It just does not get any better than this!

Blessings to all!
Your Brother in Christ, Steve Belton

Habitat for Humanity Work Day

"It was the perfect weather for working outdoors - warm and sunny with a cooling breeze - an unusual but welcomed gift in the typical summer heat of Morgan Hill. Eleven volunteers from PBCC joined the Habitat for Humanity work crew Saturday, Aug. 28, for a day of framing, roof joint work and preparation for insulating on the 6 home project at various stages of construction. As we donned our hard hats, customized with name tags, we set to work alongside other volunteers from the community and future home owners, Lupita and Jesus, excited to be there and putting in their "sweat equity" hours. Over lunch, Lupita shared a bit about her family and we got to see a small window into her very full life with their young adult, Downs son, high school boys, and grandkids. Brent, the project leader took the time to patiently explain construction terminology and the reason behind the method for the tasks that day. Though most of us had swung a hammer before, our experience was wildly varied, and yet each person felt like an important contributor. We all came away with technical skills, a new awareness of muscles we never knew existed, and a deeper sense of our bigger community. "Let's do that again!", was the refrain as we made our way home." Julie VanLoan

Click on PBCC volunteers for some photos of our crew.

Click on Habitat for Humanity's Cory Project for photos of the project