Calvary Chapel Iquitos

September, 2006 - Update

Hi Everyone,

In September we had two sisters from Pastor John Bonner's church, CC San Isidro (Lima) visit us. They helped the woman's ministry, the youth group & with the children's ministries.

The church also got together and we had a "minga", which is when one house provides breakfast and lunch, and the people of the community come together to help in whatever project there is. Our project was putting on a new roof; In our case it was mainly Saul and the guys from our youth group that put the roof on.

We put the roof onto our newest property (the house next to the church). We had purchased this house earlier this year, but were not able to do anything with it until now. A nice donation came in from some members of CC Rocky Mountain, which is in Calgary Canada, for this project.

I didn't get many pictures of the two sisters from Lima, but here is one where they are helping with the street kids, at the Portales corner.


Iliana with the kids

Here is in a small idea of what we did. In reality the project of putting on the new roof was an all day project with about 6 guys on the roof, 2 below about 8 of the children hauling away the old leaves and helping where they could. Also about 5 of the ladies from our church cooked a nice breakfast and lunch for everyone.


The existing church on the left and the new house on the right	From the inside, this is why we needed a new roof
Stripped and ready to start putting on the new leaves	Saul putting on the finishing touches

To see more pictures of the roof project, please click here Roof # 2

Team News:

Jose Luis left on October 20th to join the team going to Cajamarca, that is where the newest Calvary Chapel in Peru is starting.

Ongoing Ministry:

I stopped the Portales at the end of September, for a while, since I am more busy with the Escuelita and the other ministries now that I'm alone. Also most of the kids are older and they really need something more than Bible stories and coloring now.

It is time to start praying and thinking about the Ministry House, more seriously now. It will be downtown and will be a place for kids, teens, adults, Bible Studies, and hopefully a satellite Bible College.

Street kids ministry:

Olivia finally got the operation for the growth on her arm, and she is doing good. Thank you for you prayers

Praise Reports:

We got the roof put onto our property next to the church.
Olivia got her surgery and she is doing good.

Financial Status:

I received 100% of the amount for my support for the month of July, thank you Lord.

Prayer Requests:

Two of our girls for the youth group fainted this past week, I don't know what is going on, but it may be spritual, we have been very busy and things are going very well. One was the day before we had our very first communion service, and the other was only an hour before that same service. I think the enemy is really trying to disrupt all the good things the Lord is doing in El Terminal.
That the Lord would guide & provide for the "Ministry House" next year.
That the Lord would provide for Jose Garate and his family to move to Iquitos.
That the Lord would provide a Pastor for El Terminal.
That the Lord would bless the church in El Terminal with a worship team.
That the Lord would guide us in all decisions for the ministry.

Thank you all for your prayers and financial support.

         and God Bless   

                Albert Smith

For more information on the ministry take a look around this web page.
To help support Albert financially, please send your checks to:

Calvary Chapel Murrieta 24225 Monroe Avenue Murrieta, CA 92562 Memo = Peru, Albert Smith

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Calvary Chapel Iquitos

September, 2006 - Update

Thank you all for your prayers and financial support. and God Bless Albert Smith

For more information on the ministry take a look around this web page. To help support Albert financially, please send your checks to:

For more information on the ministry take a look around this web page.
To help support Albert financially, please send your checks to: