The apostle Paul wrote to the Corinthian Christians these words: “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.” Anita and I have been busy in the Lord’s work during the month of May. I started the month off with a revival meeting in the mountain town of Huariaca. Only the Lord knows if revival was accomplished in this small mission work we helped get started several years ago. There were many rededications, two asking for baptism and one young woman trusting Christ as her Savior.  We give the Lord thanks for his graciousness to those dear saints that live high up in the Andes mountains where the air is cold and crisp.

The next week-end I preached two nights for the youth group of the Calvary Baptist mission church here in Huánuco. It was not as well attended as I would have liked but I did have a good time with the kids that came. Brother Enrique Castillo is our youth minister and he does a tremendous job with these young folks. We had four trust Christ as their Savior during the month and they are now in discipleship training. We had hoped to baptize these four but their parents are not in favor of their being baptized at this time. These kids come from a rough area of Huánuco and their parents do not attend church.

Since these youths are between thirteen and seventeen we ask the parents for permission. This shows respect for the parents and helps keep the door open for continued witnessing to them.

On the fourth week-end I traveled to the high jungle town of Oxapampa where Brother Carlos Gonzales is the mission pastor.  It takes eleven hours on the bus, over terrible roads to get to this town. But the Lord blessed and we saw the church strengthened, evidenced by the decisions made. You might remember that Carlos lost his wife to cancer a few years ago and he is now in need of an operation to remove a large gall stone. Please remember to pray for him and the work in Oxapampa.

June the fourth, Anita and I were in the capital city of Lima in order to receive, Andy Norris; a young university student from the States that has come down to work and help us for a few months. He has already been a great blessing to us. Andy has designed a template in Microsoft Access for a library data base. He is in the process of cataloging and organizing my entire library and when his is finished I will be able to search all my books, pamphlets, microfiche, and electronic books just by typing any word, topic, or author. Pastors, he is good, maybe some of you in the States would like to have him come and do the same for you!

This past Sunday, the seventh of June, Anita and I celebrated thirty-five years of marriage.  We had a wonderful day rejoicing in the Lord by reminding ourselves of the many, many wonderful things HE has done for us over the years.  The Calvary Church surprised us on Sunday night with a special gift and anniversary cake.  Sunday morning I also had the joy of baptizing a young man, Alan, into the fellowship of the Calvary mission church.

Andy and I will be traveling to Lima this weekend to receive a mission group from the Berea Baptist Church of Hiddenite, North Carolina.  The group will be coming to help us build a security wall around the property of the Grace Baptist church here in Huanuco.  Anita and I are staying very busy, making the preparations for this group. They will be in Peru for two weeks and we pray the Lord will greatly bless their time here with us.

We were saddened this past month to hear of the passing of Brother Wallace York and Sister Betty Creiglow. They both were great examples of service to our Lord and they will be greatly missed by all who knew them. Write us or call, we always enjoy hearing from those we love.

In HIM by HIS grace,
Sheridan and Anita Stanton

The month of April marked twenty-six years completed in Peru for Anita and me and thirty-one years since my being ordained into the ministry. However, the month could best be described as TRAVEL for me and TEACHING for Anita. One weekend I preached a three day meeting in the jungle town of Cayumba on the theme of marriage and family. It was a real blessing with several couples asking for baptism. One of the highlights was learning that Anita’s series of Sunday School books she has written over the years are now being used as textbooks for religious education in some of the public schools in that region. You just never know how the “small things” you do will be used of the Lord one day!

The following weekend I was out in the Central Jungle town of Pucallpa where we lived for seven years. I was asked to help coordinate the organizational services for the Hebron Baptist Mission. The organization service was very well attended with many sister churches being represented. David Olortegui is the pastor/missionary there. I had the joy of pastoring him for several years (he is from Huánuco), conducting his marriage ceremony and ordaining him to the gospel ministry a few years ago. The Lord has blessed his ministry and his hard work. The new church is now officially called “La Iglesia Bautista Monte Horeb” – the Mount Hebron Baptist Church.

I finished out the last weekend in the town of Huariaca, nearly two miles high up in the Andes Mountains. It was a three day evangelistic meeting with one of our Baptist missions and the Lord blessed with two trusting Christ as their Savior and two “cold hearted” church members repenting and asking for the churches forgiveness.

Anita stays very busy teaching her literacy classes four afternoons each week. So many of the people in this region of Peru cannot read or write; have no math skills and are taken advantage of all the time by unscrupulous merchants. Teaching them is very slow, repetitive work (and sometimes aggravating when they don’t practice at home)! But she is dedicated to this ministry and loves the ones she teaches. It thrills her to see her students get excited over such simple things are learning to read and write their names.

Besides the literacy classes she also prepares the Sunday School lessons for our church and then teaches the teachers how to teach! This Sunday she has asked me to participate in a skit for the Sunday School children. I get to play the part of Jesus receiving all the little children. I guess having my beard helped me get the role! She continues to feel good physically; she claims she feels better than she has in years. We continue to give our gracious God all the thanks for His healing her of cancer.

We thank the Lord for all of you; for your thoughts and prayers; the cards and letter; your support and encouragement.
Until next month.

In HIM by HIS grace,
Sheridan and Anita Stanton

Anita and I arrived back in Peru and are staying busy getting things back in order. Anita has learned to pace herself and not over exert herself physically; she still gets fatigued easily and her doctors said she would need at least a year to recuperate her full strength. For those of you that know her, you know that she works hard and long hours and won’t rest until “the work” is done. But as I said, she is learning to pace herself and rest when necessary. Thanks again to all of you for your prayers for her during the past year. The Lord has been merciful to us! If you need to contact us please use our field address and phone number listed above.

Upon arrival back in Peru, we had a great reception at the airport in Huánuco by about twenty dear friends that came out to greet us. It was quite a surprise. Then when we got to the church (we live in an apartment the church building) there was another great group to greet us. It was a wonderful “welcome home” for us.

Four days after unpacking and getting a lot of things put away we left for Lima again; this time to meet a small group from Tri-Cities Baptist Church of Johnson City, Tennessee. We took them to Cusco and then on to the Mission Hospital “Diospi Suyana” in Curahuasi. We are supporting, Silvia Rojas, a young lady from our church there as a medical missionary. We had a great visit and then we traveled back to Cusco in order to spend time with missionaries, Jason and Rebecca Reinhardt and the twins, Neomi and Natali. (These are the twins we took care of for seven months a few years ago). They sure love to see their “Nene and Papaw” come to visit!!

My Monday night Bible classes have resumed and I am enjoying them very much. Anita will soon start teaching her literacy classes again. She is very anxious to get back into that area of her ministry.

We are back working with the Calvary Baptist Mission here in Huánuco once again. Our first service back they also surprised us with a welcome back party. The Minix family, Jayson and Andrea, have done a wonderful job working in this new mission.  They are now back in the States on furlough and presenting their children, Austin and Lauren to their supporting churches.  Both children were born here in Peru during their first term.  The work is doing well, we had one young man accept Christ as his Savior on our second Sunday back in Huánuco. Our great God continues to bless and bless!

Thanks to the Mount Calvary Baptist Church of Charleston, West Virginia we were able to purchase a new motorcycle for Pastor Carlos Gonzales for use in his work in Oxapampa, Peru. He was overjoyed with the new motorcycle. Thank you pastor Mitchell and saints of Mount Calvary Baptist!!!

Until next month.

In HIM by HIS grace,
Sheridan and Anita Stanton

Anita and I are busy packing and getting ready to return to Peru in two days! Time has slipped away quickly the past couple of weeks and it seems no matter how prepared you think you are there are always last minute details to take care of. We are so anxious to get home and back into the work the Lord has called us to do. We will be out of communication for a week or two until we get our internet service up and running again. Words cannot express the depth of our gratitude to our great God for His manifest mercy in healing Anita of cancer this past year.  We thank each of you for your love and concern that you showed to us by your prayers, cards, phone calls and gifts.

Besides getting back into the normal ministry activities that we do, we are also planning on expanding our Bible Institute to include online classes. It will probably take a few years to get a complete curriculum available online but we are looking forward to the challenge. Anita is anxious to get back to teaching the women in Huanuco and also to start helping so many of the ladies learn to read and write. We also have four (maybe five) mission groups coming down this year and we are praying that each group will be encouraged in their walk with the Lord and will receive a long lasting burden and passion for missions. As the apostle John said in his 3rd epistle, “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth”, this is our prayer for each of you. Our next letter will be from Peru!

In HIM by HIS grace,
Sheridan and Anita Stanton

Happy New Year! Anita and I trust that this past year was a year of blessings for you and we pray that this year will be even more! This letter is being written from Florida where I am speaking at the annual Bible Conference of the Jordan Baptist Church, Pastor George Sledd. It is 80 degrees outside and we have the air conditioning going, what a blessing!

Anita is traveling with me and we just came from Elliot, Mississippi. From here we head up to speak at churches in North and South Carolina. We take our time and make sure she gets her rest, but she really does enjoy visiting with all of you.  December was a very busy month for me; I had the opportunity to travel in Ohio, West Virginia, Illinois, Indiana, and two churches in Kentucky and give a report of the mission work in Peru. All of the churches have been very gracious in their hospitality and love offerings for which we are very thankful.

One of the high-lights of the month of December was having both our son and daughter and their families with us for a few days. It was the first time we had all been together since the grand kids were born. Anita and I enjoyed so much our time with them. The added bonus was finding out that our daughter-in-law is expecting our third grand-child in June.

But the best news of all was when Anita went to the doctor for her final visit the last week of December and he told her that her tumor marker count was down (even below the accepted normal level). For this great news we are still rejoicing! She does not come back to see him again until September. Sooooo, we are heading back to Peru the 12th of February. Even thought 2008 was a difficult year because of Anita’s cancer treatments we count it a year of blessings for the many life lessons learned and for having our faith strengthened. We thank all of you for your never ceasing prayers and for your generous support during the year. Anita and I are both anxious to return home and get back to the work God has called us to do. May God bless you for your love and concern for the lost souls of Peru. Until next month.

In HIM by HIS grace,
Sheridan and Anita Stanton

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Anita had her last radiation treatment on Tuesday, 5 of December! She is now healing from the blistering and recuperating from the constant fatigue. We see the doctors at the end of this month for some final blood work and hopefully dismissal. We have purchased our tickets to return to Peru for the middle of February.  We are both very anxious to return home. Please continue to pray for Anita as it will take months in order for her to recuperate her full strength. Some weekends she is able to travel with me but they usually leave her exhausted and needing to recuperate the following week. We take things day by day and moment by moment. Your prayers are still very much appreciated and needed.

During the month of November I had the opportunity to visit churches in Kentucky, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio. A few of these trips Anita was able to travel with me. Each church gave us a warm reception and showed great hospitality. It is always good to see old friends and enjoy the fellowship of our supporting churches. The Thanksgiving Conference hosted by New Hope Baptist Church of Dearborn Heights, Michigan was a tremendous blessing. Being able to sit and hear good preaching is such a blessing. On the mission field I usually preach wherever I go and when in the States I am usually traveling and giving a report each Sunday of the work in Peru. Conferences are a great opportunity for missionaries to recharge their batteries.  Anita and I are looking forward to two more conferences in Florida during the month of January.  May God bless you for your love and concern for the lost souls of Peru. Until next month.

In HIM by HIS grace,
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)

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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)