Archive for August, 2008

Stanton Peru Mission Report

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Dear Friends,

Greetings from Peru once again by the mercies of our Lord! I’ve been in Peru for two weeks now taking care of Mission business and getting our bills paid up. Anita was not able to make this short trip with me because she needed to recuperate a few weeks after her last chemo therapy treatment. I am returning to the States on the 12th of August in order to be there for her operation on the 18th of August. After her operation they will let her recover for about a month and then begin radiation therapy five days a week for six weeks. God continues to be very gracious to her during this “cancer experience.” We thank each of you for your constant prayers and support. We believe the worst part (chemo therapy) is behind us, but she still has a long way to go, so please continue to remember her in your prayers. You can still reach us at the numbers listed above.

It has been a real blessing to be back in Peru after six months in the States. I have been able to help two churches get their new building programs started. Jordan Baptist in Lima will soon be tearing down the old structure they’ve been in for the past twelve years. They outgrew the building years ago and have been putting up extension tents in the street for a few years now. At last they have enough to get the new building started which will quadruple their seating capacity. Praise the Lord with us for this. Also the Grace Baptist Church here in Huánuco has received sufficient funds from the Statesville Bible Institute to build their new meeting house on the property we purchased for them last year. Some pictures are attached.

I also had the joy of purchasing the new motorcycle for Peruvian missionary Miguel Gargate this past week. Motorcycles are cheaper in the mountain town of Huánuco than in the jungle town of Tingo Maria where he lives. He came to Huánuco, we purchased the motorcycle and then he headed back home on the new bike with his brother-in-law as a passenger. The trip normally takes about three hours but it took him six! It rained hard and the fog was thick. But praise the Lord they arrived home safely! This motorcycle will help Miguel enormously in his mission travels. He has three major works he attends too and also a few occasional preaching points in the jungle. Thanks to our dear “anonymous” friend who donated the money for this motorcycle.

Pastors, a few weeks after Anita’s operation I hope to begin rescheduling appointments to come and share with your church the Lord’s work here in Peru. Anita will not be able to travel with me on the long trips but she hopes to be able to accompany me on some of the shorter trips. Please feel free to contact me and I will be contacting those of you with whom I had to cancel earlier in the year. Looking forward to seeing all of you. May our heavenly Father continue to bless you all for your prayers and support!

In Him and by His grace,
Sheridan and Anita Stanton

Stanton Peru Mission Report

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

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July 8, 2008

Dear friends,

Greetings to all of you in the precious name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior! It seems that I have felt HIS presence this past month closer to me than perhaps ever before in my life. It is hard watching someone you love so dearly suffer so much with the awful side effects of chemotherapy treatment for cancer. It leaves Anita so weak and sick for about two weeks of the three weeks between treatments. She has only about one week of feeling somewhat strong enough to leave the house. But through all of this her faith in the Lord has remained strong and her passion to return to the Lords work in Peru has not weakened.

Her love and concern for others has not diminished either; she still finds time to call other cancer patients she has meet to encourage them. Her next and last chemo treatment will be the 15th of July. After about four to six weeks of recuperation, the doctors have a mastectomy planned and then possibly six weeks of radiation treatments to follow the operation. We don’t have dates yet for the operation so we will keep everyone posted when we have that information. Thank you all so much for your prayers, cards, e-mails, phone calls and love gifts. It is an awesome experience knowing that you are loved by so many people; every day at least one card comes in the mail with expressions of concern and encouragement. Truly we serve a great and loving God!

We would also like to thank each one that responded to last months letter concerning help for my travel expenses. The need was more than met and the surplus will be used to help some of our national missionaries in Peru and also to cover some extra medical expenses that our insurance will not cover. Thanks again for each of you that helped us with this need. The travel expenses are for my upcoming three week trip back to Peru. I will leave one week after Anita has her last chemo treatment and be back before her surgery.

When we left Peru in January for a six month furlough, we had planned to return the 9th of July. We made financial arrangements for our utility bills and national workers up until the end of June. So I need to go back and make new arrangements and also to get two new building projects started. Enough funds have been received to help the Grace Baptist church in Huánuco start their new building and also the Jordan Baptist church in Lima is now ready to begin construction on their new meeting house. God has been so good to help us be able to help these works. The work in Peru is growing and maturing for which we are thankful.

Speaking of new works; we still have the need of helping the Faith Baptist mission in Oxapampa with the need to purchase property. The total cost of the property is still $10,000.00. To date I have received $1500.00 designated for this project. Would anyone like to take this on as a mission project? Pastor Carlos Gonzales is the faithful national missionary that started this work and keeps it going. He lost his wife, Maria, last year to stomach cancer, but he and his grown children continue on in the work.

Oxapampa is in an area of Peru where we have never had a work before. It is the middle city of three small cities located in a large semi-tropical valley. Just recently the government built a decent highway allowing travel to Oxapampa possible. The small city has no airport or waterways; travel is only by land.

In HIM and for HIS glory,
Sheridan and Anita Stanton

Sheridan and Anita Stanton
1012 Balsam Drive
Lexington, Kentucky 40504
859 -277-3716 (mission house)
859 514-0929 (vonage)
859 684-8805 (cell)
sestantonperu@hotmail.com (Sheridan)
arstantonperu@hotmail.com (Anita)