I love my mummy!
Week 2 began with the Sunday services, Spanish, as usual, in the morning and English in the evening for the visit of the team.
Monday started with last preparations for our jungle trip. We arrived in Pucallpa with our team of 14, including Daniel and Joel, and we spent our first day in the jungle relaxing, the boys enjoying it in the pool, and we all got an early night ready for the boat trip on Tuesday.
Jude and Elizabeth at our impromptu toilet stop in the 'back garden' of an unsuspecting landowner
Tuesday was a dawn start, getting to the boat and travelling down a tributary of the Amazon, the river Ucayali (the name of the province as well) and we arrived in a small river port about three and half hours later. 
Hey what's happening?
We arrived to a bustling port filled with moto-taxis waiting to take us the ‘twenty Shipibo minutes’ to the church awaiting us. 
After a forty-five minute journey we arrived to the amazing Shipibo welcome, this again blew me away.
Nuevo (New) Ceylan was a place that will stay with me for many years as we were received as family and treated as that. 
Huts in Nuevo Ceylan
These people had had no white visitors in 36 years and felt very honoured for us to be there. This gave a real openness to a message of covenant and kingdom that Dan and I shared, which was illustrated by using two triangles of the Father and the King, using branches from the Amazon jungle, when in Rome!!
The beautiful Shipibo children.
Following ministry we donated the suitcase of clothes that we had gathered from various people, and this was received with the most grateful tears I have ever seen. To me it was a old battered suitcase full of used donated clothes. To them it was love from foreigners, and clothes that are so desperately needed.
Preaching in the Amazon Jungle
Following prayers of thanksgiving, they gave us lots of gifts to say how much they appreciated us being here.
They have so little but they give from their hearts. Do we do this in the West?
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