As I (Mark) wrote on our last update we are in a season of new beginnings. We now have a very healthy mums and tots group which had 15 mums last week with far too many kids in the back garden, a great problem to have. More team is certainly needed!! Anna is continuing to teach the mums about loving their kids on purpose, and at the moment is helping design things for Peruvian Mother's Day, and I have started to teach the Alpha course with the mums, and we will finish by having a retreat, which I believe for all of them will be a first in their life.
We have also started a church service on a Sunday which is very exciting. 
The mums at our first Sunday morning service
Watch this space for further details. This is slowly growing but will be a great support to the other work we are doing.
The most exciting thing at the moment is the deepening or relationships here. We are starting to do a lot of one to one discipleship and are already seeing the difference in the lives of the some of the mums, and the others we are discipling. Last week we took on 5 adults from a church where we are mentoring the pastor and they will be doing something like a secondment (internship for our American readers) with us till December, and then we will re-evaluate. They will be a support to us, but more than that they will be learning practically about mission and helping their church to be more outwards focused.
We are also starting to visit some of the mums at home as well as seeing them outside of the Tuesday meeting.
Melissa (a 19 year old single mum) and Tiago. Melissa is being discipled by Anna.
It is wonderful to live in a welcoming community, and feel that our house will be a centre, like a modern day abbey, or vicarage. 
No I'm cooler than you!
Our house is such a blessing and work is well underway for the various visitors we will be having this year. We are getting to know our neighbours, and unlike in our last house (where we lived for 2 years) we know the names of several of them. Anna has even visited one of our neighbours 2 doors down and we have a couple of visitors from the neighbourhood here as well.
Daniel and Joel on retreat where I was speaking.
In summary things are healthy and fun, and exciting at the moment.
Daniel in a post church service activity. This activity has now been banned. No idea where he gets it from!
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