We hope you have had a great month since last we communicated. As Thanksgiving approaches, we want to be sure to again thank each of you for the prayers you have invested in our ministry here in Lima, Peru. They are crucial and we feel their effects daily. Really, we couldn't be here without them.

Here are some other things we are thankful to God for this past month.

*You prayed for our EE training. It was challenging but very rewarding. God has used this tool powerfully in our team to enable us to more intentionally and effectively communicate the gospel to unbelievers, and we are truly seeing the gospel's power at work in people's lives. The Son of God is just so powerful as we share his gospel in our weakness, and we just want to testify to you that he is really at work in a special way in these days. I'm starting to lose track, but I think in the last two and a half weeks, we have been privileged to witness at least 8 conversions as we have shared the gospel. God is so good!

I want to tell you about Enrique, our friend and taxi driver, who was converted a week or so ago. He was taking me to the airport as I was en route to the US for the MTW LEAD conference. We'd been praying for him for some time, and God had given us as a family a special friendship with Enrique over these months. His wife and two young daughters live in Arequipa and he works here in Lima and send them money to support them. They are separated for economic reasons, but are shortly to be reunited here in Lima in January. So on the way to the airport we were talking and I was praying as the conversation began to be led by the Lord towards the gospel. I sensed it was time to present the gospel to Enrique, and as I did, you could just see the lights going on for him. He is Catholic, and had understood that he needed to improve his life, add more good works, and somehow that would give him a better chance to get into heaven. As he learned about Christ and what Christ's life and work on the Christ did for sinners, he was simply ecstatic. In the dropoff lane at the airport, with the police blowing his whistle at us, literally, he told me--don't worry about him, I want what you're talking about (eternal life)--please show what I need to do to receive it! I helped him pray to receive Christ into his heart, and right there with the police officer whistling at us to move on, he gave me a huge hug and with a tremendous smile thanked me for showing him how to be saved. It was one of the most memorable moments of my life. Enrique was just over tonight for some followup. He is actively reading his Bible and sharing with his friends about Christ. We are praying for his wife and two daughters. He told me tonight that he is praying for his entire extended family, which is very large, that he might be the one who God uses to lead all of them to Christ.

*Please pray for Enrique and these others who have just believed, that the Lord of the harvest would protect and grow them deep in the gospel. And pray for us as we seek to provide basic followup with many of them and then hook them into local churches. Some other names: Marlene, Lourdes, Roger, Fabian, Senora Lovato.

*Please continue to pray for a church planting movement in Lima and Peru.

*Pray for the opportunities before us to minister the gospel in both a women's and men's prison, to teen prostitute girls, and to street kids, drug addicts and prostitutes near downtown Lima and in Huaycan. These are developing opportunities, still very initial, but please pray for God to lead us. Keep praying for God to raise up his people here in Lima, his church, who will have a passion for ministering to the least of these. We have a vision for God to raise up an army of Christians from all churches who will transform this society as they move as salt and light into the darkest places in this culture. Pray with us for this kind of revival. Pray that God would start in our own hearts, that his gospel would run deep in us, and that this would overflow in our Presbyterian church context and beyond.

*Pray for Mark's preaching in the Presbyterian Church in Surco this Sunday 23 November, and in the Bethel Presbyterian Church Sunday 30 November. Pray that I'd preach Christ. Pray also for his teaching on sonship at a church conference in Cuzco Dec 5-6, then again in Huaraz Dec 12-14. In Cuzco he will be with our sister MTW team and members from their church plants. In Huaraz he'll be co teaching with Keith Powlison to a group of 30 pastors and leaders from varying denominations, none Presbyterian. This will be the first of a series of training events in Huaraz, preceding an eventual church plant in this mountain region of Peru.

*Andrew Halbert, one of our two year missionaries, lost his uncle tragically last week. He leaves a wife and four children, all college age. Please pray for Andrew and his family.

*Keep praying for Sean Galton, another of our fine two year missionaries, as he considers whether God wants him to extend another year or is calling him home at the end of his time in March 04.

*Taylor, our third child (girl), age 3, is having nightmares about spiders. Please pray for God to draw near to her and protect her from these fears.

*Please keep praying for Lori's grandmother. She's improved and seems to have stabilized. Please remember her Mom Melanie as well who is her primary care giver.

*The Peru Leadership Team, of which Mark is a part, will be conducting ministry evaluations of each of the MTW ministries in Peru. These will take place over the next 2-3 months. Pray that these evaluations would help improve our communication with one another as a field and our ministries, as we seek to walk more closely together as teams and have greater accountability.

Again, thank you for your faithfulness to pray for us.

We appreciate you so much,

Love in Christ,

Mark and Lori