Jorge Huanca Joins Ministry Staff

We are pleased to announce another addition to our ministry team. Jorge Huanca and his wife Dalila will be coming to Lima to serve our Lord with us!

After much prayer and consultation, we extended an invitation to Jorge Huanca to join our ministry here in Lima. After seeking counsel and praying with his wife, they have accepted our invitation.

Jorge Huanca and his wife, Dalila

(Their Addition Is a Great Answer to Prayer)

Jorge's job description is a long one. He knows what he is walking into and it is going to be a challenge. But he will also face many challenges before he even gets here. Jorge and Dalila have been serving the Lord for over 16 years in Trujillo. They will say good-bye to a lot of friends knowing that distance will keep them from enjoying the precious fellowship and closeness they have experienced with the best of God's servants. The move to a big city like Lima presents its challenges.

Dalila, Damaris, Jonathan and Josué

As they uproot they will change friends, churches, pastors, houses, ministries, streets, school and teachers. The move also calls for a sacrifice on Dalila and their 3 children. Change is never easy. Moving turns your world upside down, so please pray for them as they prepare for the move.

We are absolutely thrilled to have them join us. They bring not only a heart dedicated totally to our Savior, but special gifts that our radio and church ministry need. God willing, they will be with in the first months of the next year; sometime between January and March.

Mountain Shadows Baptist Church Serves the Lord in Peru

Pastor Jim Mitchell and 6 members of Mountain Shadows Baptist in Pueblo West, Colorado came to Peru to serve our wonderful Lord. They served 5 days in the south and 3 days here in Lima.

Left to Right: Cody, Liz, Jamin, Dave, Me, Megan, John and Pastor Jim.

They worked at the radio station helping with the updating of our tower.

Here they are digging to extend radial cables.

They also sanded and painted to protect containers from the ocean breeze.

Liz scrapping off the rust and preping for paint.

They worked hard and did so with a cheerful spirit making friends as they went along.

Wilfredo and Dave became good friends and just enjoyed serving Christ.

They also ministered spiritually. Pastor Mitchell taught and preached several times.

Pastor Jim preaching in the Spanish church in Lima.

Megan helps a little girl in Sunday School.

Liz helps children on the other side of the classroom.

Groups are such a help in the work and an encouragement to us personally. We love having visitors! Their support on the field has a powerful effect on the missionary!

In all these pictures, Ruth never appears. That is because she took them! My Sweetheart worked hard in the kitchen, out at the plant and doing a lot behind the scenes. On the next to the last day, I wanted to thank her in a special way and get someone in the group to take a picture of us.

I thank the Lord for my lovely wife who does so much that no one ever sees.

If you would like to bring a group to Peru, come on down. It will be a life changing experience.

New Baby Granddaughter

God recently blessed us with a new baby granddaughter. My daughter, Jessica Cheke gave birth to little Chloe Jade on September 29 at 10:10 p.m. Our tiny sweetheart weighed 7 lbs. 14 oz. and was 21" long. Both Jessica and Chloe are doing well.

Mother and Daughter

From Left to Right: Deric, Jessica, Chloe and Jill Cheke (Deric's mother).

Jill is always there to help.

We praise the Lord for Deric, who is a godly husband and father. Deric and Jessica have two children: Bayne and now Chloe.

Deric, Jessica and Chloe

Ruth and I want to thank our wonderful Lord for our grandchildren. We are praying for the salvation of each one.

Ruth Templeton and Pam Kuhlewind - Special Friends

Pam Kuhlewind came down with the Valley Forge Baptist Temple team and worked in the kitchen with Ruth preparing food and ministering in the VBS.

She also was one of the diggers as this picture testifies.

God used her as she showed Christ's love to little children.

Pam and Betsaí.

But Pam stayed a few days longer to be with Ruth. The two have been friends for years. But not just friends. And not just good friends. It is a special relationship. Not many every reach this level of intimacy with another person.

It was a special pleasure to just sit back and admire how they interacted and encouraged each other. I want Ruth to have good friends in life and you just can't get any better than Pam. It is a Jonathan/David relationship. It is hard to tell who loves the other more!

They ate together, walked together, and prayed together.

Inseparable friends at Friendship Park in Lima

Pam and Ruth squeezed all the juice they could get out of every valuable minute they had together. And I couldn't be happier.

Valley Forge Baptist Temple Thrusts Forward Radio Ministry and Church Plant

A group of 24 friends from Valley Forge Baptist Temple came to Lima this past week. They made a two-pronged attack against the enemy that has produced amazing results for the furtherance of the gospel.

One objective was to hold a Vacation Bible School program each afternoon in the rustic tabernacle with a dirt floor at the radio station. Even though school was still going and the older

children were in classes, the VBS was an astounding success in reaching the community for Christ. I think I am correct in saying that the attendance for the final days went beyond 100 children and around 15 - 20 adults. (All the benches that Bill Hulshizer, Cort Hill and Andy Stitzinger made were packed every day.

Scott Shaw preached to the adults through Edwin.

Edwin is a young man in our new church plant in Lima.

Many of the children received more love in 5 days at our VBS than they will get in a year at home.

Antoinette Rapp serving Christ by loving children.

I do not have any idea how many made decisions for salvation. We did our best not to push the children toward a "decision", wanting to make sure each understood what they were doing. I think a conservative figure would be 10. But one is enough to make it worth it all.

Jackie Wendel was one of the main Bible teachers.

The team worked through interpreters here in Lima. These men and women who served as translators did a great job as well for our Lord.

Leo is the translator on the left. He was excellent.

Nany Buckman was the principal leader of the VBS. God has gifted her with some amazing organizational skills. She can take a VBS program a success anywhere around the world even under primitive circumstances.

Nancy in action.

The team also ministered the Word in preaching and song at our new church plant in Lima.

The teens singing a special in song.

Tim Keeley preached at prayer meeting.

The other objective was to concentrate on the radio plant itself. There were 3 projects going on at once. Some worked on the closets in our caretaker's house.

Kevin Nickerle is an excellent carpenter. Wished we had him full time!

Some built a gate that closed off our workshop area. Nice job, men.

But most of the construction crew labored hard on the upgrades for the radio antenna. They can testify to the "labored hard" part. Most of it was digging.

And digging and digging.

They also poured some cement to set in place our tuning pole.

Only eternity will reveal the great results from this extremely hard work

The best part of every mission trip for Ruth and me is the testimony time. We love it when all of us gather around and listen to the testimonies of how others came to know Christ. It is a little taste of heaven.

Thanks, Valley Forge team, for coming to Peru. We want to thank all those who gave, prayed and sacrificed by letting their family members come to help us.

Granddaughter Added to the Templeton Family

The Lord recently added another granddaughter to our family when Amy gave birth to a sweet little girl on August 26.

Her name is Emily.

Emily weighed 7 pounds and was 20 3/4 inches long.

Emily is so precious and we thank the Lord that both she and Amy are doing well.

Isn't she a darling?

Ben, Amy and Emily serve the Lord in Quebec, Canada. Ben is a great husband/father and is thrilled to have his little girl.

And we are thrilled to have Ben and Emily in our family.

Calvary Sends Second Group

Doug Will and John Hagey came to Lima with the Calvary group from our sending church.

John with a friend, Edwin.

Doug with a new family at our church.

When they left, the caretaker house was not far enough along for Bro. Jorge (our caretaker) and his family to be able to move in to their new home. Doug and John were so burdened about this, that they wanted to come back to Peru. They not only came back, they brought two other men from Calvary to join them: Ray Chiang and Al Barnabei.

Al and Ray examining the wood.

Just before they came, a hurricane hit the east coast of the States and delayed their departure. Then we lost our electricity at the radio plant. The loss of the electricity was just one of the many attacks from Satan on the ministry. It took us off the air for two weeks and left us without power just when a work team was arriving. It also left us vulnerable to theft at night.

We had purchased a new table saw and planer and the men had brought down power tools to finish out the woodwork in the house. With no electricity, the tools were useless. So we rented a generator. But when we connected the generator, our new planer burned out.

Doug, Stan, Al and Jorge looking at the generator.

These four men worked hard, never complained, and did all they could to help and encourage us in the ministry. Even their flight back home was delayed one day. In spite of all the obstacles, they did enough so that shortly after they left, our caretaker and his family were able to move into their house.

One very big accomplishment was to dig and extend the electrical lines for our power once the electric company got us connected. This was a major victory.

The men were able to do a little shopping to buy gifts to take back home.

Ray at the market buying gifts to take back home.

Doug, Al, John and Ray were such an encouragement during this time.

We were not able to accomplish all we hoped, but the encouragement at this time from our sending church was the exact blessing the Lord knew we needed. Maybe the Lord had them come just for such as time as this.

Calvary Baptist Church from Lansdale, PA Labors for Christ In Peru

A team from our sending church and some other churches in the nearby Lansdale, PA area came to Lima 10 days.

The Work Crew From Calvary

During that time they worked at our radio station plant South of Lima. They put in grueling hours of hard work to help us upgrade our tower. We are working on a system that concentrates the radio signal straight toward Lima. This required a lot of digging. They also did a lot of work on the caretaker house. Their work got us closer to the goal of moving in the caretaker's family to live on site.

Pastor Troy Gahman came with the team and taught the Word while he was here.

A special treat was to have a delegation from our sending church present at the opening service of our new church plant in Lima.

There was also come time for fun.

And sight-seeing.

The group got to go out on the Pacific Ocean and see some of the local wildlife and marine animals.

What a blessing they were! A special thanks to all those who sacrificed for them to come and serve the Lord by serving us.