Countries
Sierra Leone	Papua New Guinea	Guyana	Costa Rica	Panama	Jibacam
1985-1994	1995-1999	2000-2003	2007-2008	2008	2001-2007

Wesleyan Church of Sierra Leone requests from World Missions a couple to go to Gbendembu to direct the bible school and restructure the curriculum.

At this time we received a letter from Wesleyan World Missions asking us to consider serving in theological education. We were given three places to choose from Brazil, Papua New Guinea and Sierra Leone. The content of the letter indicated that they felt the largest need was in Sierra Leone. As we prayed we felt that this was the right place to go.

We informed the Oskaloosa Wesleyan Church of our decision to resign as senior pastor and move to Sierra Leone in June of 1986.
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June – Resigned from work as pastor and moved belongings to Perry’s parents house after selling house and many household goods. Perry sold his Pinto which was his first car.

September – Pack up our suitcases and moved to Sierra Leone. Sell our Ford Fairmount just days before we leave.First activity was a 10 day language school meeting held in Freetown. During this time Jeffrey had his first birthday. The meeting was held at the Catholic Retreat Center on top of a mountain overlooking Freetown. It had a great view of the city and a great location to get to know our co-workers.

October – Arrived in Gbendembu to begin a year of language and culture learning and study the needs of the school and the country in order to prepare the new curriculum. There were six students still at the school. When they completed their next year the school was to be closed to allow for renovation and preparations for starting the new program.

November – Nancy attends the pastors wives retreat. She has to learn to drive a four wheel drive truck in order to help provide transportation for pastors wives from our district. While she is away Perry has his first bout with malaria.

December – We travel to the northern district. Nancy and the boys stay at the missionary kids school in Kabala and Perry visits Bafodia. He has been asked to go and baptize a group of people because there is no permanent pastor in the village. Over 130 are baptized that day including the grandson of the paramount chief.
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January – Perry goes with a medical team and ministry team to visit an isolated region in the northeast. The hope is that we may be able to establish a new area of work. While there his foot is infected and he has to make an emergency run to the hospital in Kamakwie. It takes three days to get there. We are thankful that the doctors have the medicine needed to treat the infection. Perry ends up on crutches for over a month.

March – Perry is asked to make a presentation concerning the new training program to several other mission groups as well as the leaders of the Wesleyan Church. That same day Jeffrey falls and breaks his leg.

May - The decision is made to close the school early to allow for renovation of the facilities. We cannot wait another whole year. The students are give special assignments in order to complete their training. Work begins on renovation. We have also purchased 30 acres adjacent to the mission compound for the construction of a new campus.

August – A Pace team of six teens come from the states to help with the work on the renovation of the school. Around this time plans are put in place to invite a work team and another couple to come and help build the first building of the new campus. It will be a staff house for the vice principal of the school.

December – Nancy’s parents come and spend two weeks with us. There is concern about whether we should cancel the work team because of Perry’s illness but we decide to go ahead. In May we planted rice and Nancy’s dad help to bring in the rice harvest. He has a great time being a farmer in Sierra Leone.
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January – A team of 8 from the Iowa/Minnesota district arrive and help with the work on the staff house. They will spend three weeks with us. Also Bob and Betty Rosas come for three months. Their help is critical in finishing the staff house and helping getting many things ready for the opening of school.

March – The first class of the new program arrives. Nineteen students, wives and children come and we begin the new program. Nancy organizes a training program for the wives to help them assist their husbands in the ministry.

April – In cooperation with the district the students are assigned to a number of preaching points to help develop them into full churches.

September – We received word that due to a financial shortage at World Missions we were to be laid off. This would affect us and the Lehr family. At this time Perry’s parents came to spend three months with us. Perry’s dad would teach a couple of courses at the bible school and his mother would start John in kindergarten.

October – We received word that if we could raise the money for the construction of the new student dorm we could stay until March to complete that project. We would need to raise $6000 to do this.

November – During mission council we discussed the situation and realized that only if we gave could the needed money be raised. Over the lunch hour each person present considered what they would do. The group of about 30 gathered back and passed in our response. Between the missionaries and visitors over $6000 was pledged that day.

December – The school purchased 30 acres a mile from town to use for producing a cash crop to support the finances of the school. One night Perry’s dad complained of severe headache and so Perry took him to the hospital and he was treated for glaucoma. That night thieves broke into the tool shop and stole the generator we use for construction along with other tools. Within one week God had lead us to the thieves and to the generator. It was hidden in an old latrine less than two hundred yards from the tool shop. What rejoicing there was in the village that day as they saw God work.
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February – A team of eight from the Iowa-Minnesota District come to help finish the construction of the dormitory. Six of these men are pastors.

March – We return to the states as 11 more students and families are accepted to the school. Phil and Pam Leslie take over the administration of the bible school.

May – The Baptist Tabernacle, the church Perry attended while growing up, allows us to move into the church parsonage while they are searching for a new pastor.

August – We are able to rent a house and move to allow for the new pastor to occupy the parsonage.

September to May 1990 – We continue to pray on wait on the Lord regarding returning to Sierra Leone. We feel clearly that we are called to missions and will be able to return.
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January – We candidate at a church in Mississippi. They and we decide this will not work and so Perry returns to work in construction.

February – A work team Wisconsin goes to Gbendembu and helps Phil Leslie construct the second student dormitory. Phil is the Acting principal for the school while we are in the states.

March – We receive word from Wesleyan World Missions asking us to return to Sierra Leone.

May – The missions office asks to delay going for a year so that we can do home ministries.

Perry’s father dies suddenly and we move in with Perry’s mother for the next year.

July 1990 to July 1991 – Perry travels in home ministries and raises funds for continued construction at the bible school.

September – During the coming year Perry takes courses at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in hopes of entering a doctoral program there.

January – Perry and District Superintendent Rev. J.Y. Konteh plan and hold the first Lay Training Institute in Gbendembu with 12 persons attending.

February – A work team from Iowa/Minnesota, California, and Wisconsin come to help in construction of the new classroom building. It will be ready in time for the new school year.

May – We are evacuated to Senegal because a military coup. We will return in three months.

August – We return to Sierra Leone after three months in the states. We and the church are excited to be together again and continue the work of training pastors for Sierra Leone.

January – The second Lay Training Institute is held in Gbendembu with over 30 attending from two districts.

February – A work team from Indiana comes to help in construction of the library. We also pour the footings for the third student dormitory.

Bible School buildings
1987 Renovation of the eight buildings of the original bible school
1988 Construction of the staff house on the new campus – Iowa-Minnesota team
1989 Construction of the first student dormitory – Iowa-Minnesota and Skyline teams
1990 Construction of the second student dormitory – Wisconsin Team
1991 Construction of the classroom building – Iowa-Minnesota and Wisconsin Team
1992 Construction of the library – Indian Team

Churches and Parsonages
District Superintendent house Gbendembu – Renovation and construction
Medina Church
Church off the medina road near swamp
Church near Sheku
Church pastured by Moses
Church at Medina junction
Parsonage in Manyeh
Lay foundation for Medina church.

Need to find information for all of the churches we helped build using local teams visiting work teams.
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January - The third Lay Training Institute is held in two locations. The first is at the Makeni Retreat center with over 80 in attendance. The second is at the Kissy Grassfield church in Freetown with over 100 attending. The NBA decides that the next year every district needs to hold a Lay Training Institute.

February – We pour the floor of the third student dormitory and pour the footings for the new chapel. The foundation will be completed as well by the time we leave on furlough in June.

June – We return to USA for furlough and home ministries. We are put on the new support system and will need to raise $59,000 and have 300 prayer partners before we are allowed to return. Our goal is to return to Sierra Leone. We hope to turn over the leadership of the school to a national principal and focus on accreditation of the school as well as continue construction of the new campus and development of the agricultural projects.

September – Perry is approved as a candidate for the Doctor of Ministry/Missiology program at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Ill.
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March – Fighting in Sierra Leone forces the second evacuation of missionaries from Sierra Leone. We are concerned about whether we will be able to return.

April – We receive word that Sierra Leone is officially closed due to the fighting. We receive information that all of the missionaries from Sierra Leone are being asked to consider being reassigned. We are asked to consider going to Papua New Guinea. They want to start a bible school in the next year.

May – We inform headquarters that we are willing to be reassigned to Papua New Guinea.

July – We arrive in Papua New Guinea in time for mission council and learn about our new assignment. We also begin home schooling our children to prepare for transition in the international school when we move back to Mt. Hagen. At the end of the month we move to Takuru to do language training and learn about the cultures of Papua New Guinea. We are living among the Wiru people of the Southern Highlands.

October – John cuts his foot and Perry has to take him to Mt Hagen for treatment and uses this trip to buy supplies.

November – Perry goes trekking and visits the villages of last Wiru. He stops in four villages in a very isolated region covering 50 miles in three days. Later we would have four students come from these villages to the bible college.

December – The family takes a weekend trip to visit one of the churches. It is a 10 mile hike one way. What a great time of fellowship and learning about life in Papua New Guinea.

We also spend Christmas in Takuru creating a Papua New Guinea version of a Christmas tree. We also complete a small house like the local houses and sleep in it. It will be use to invite friends over to sit in cook a meal and just talk about life in the Wiru tribe. The whole project is well received and allows us to learn many things about the people we are living with.
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January – We invite all of our friends in Takuru to a farewell mumu. We are getting ready to return to Mt. Hagen to begin work on the bible college buildings and curriculum.

We arrive at the same time a work team from Australia has come to help remodel the building we are to live in. It was built as a hostel for the missionary children and is being converted into three flats. We will spend the next month finishing up the remodeling process.

February – We visit Woposali as part of our orientation to the work in Papua New Guinea. John leaves for Ukurampa to start grade 7 at the SIL boarding school. We also get a chance to visit the work among the Huli people in Fugwa.

March – Perry begins helping Don Floyd with the construction of the new collge campus which is 12 miles from Mt. Hagen. The first job is to build a road into the property which is next to the river and very marshy. Also work is begun on drainage.

April – We put in the footings and foundation of the new two story classroom structure.

May – We back fill and pour the floors. The building is 29 ft by 90 ft. Pouring the floor will take two weeks.

June – A work team from Tennessee comes to help put up the walls. Bob and Anna Marie Stonoff come to help. Work on the first dormitory begins.

July – We frame in the second floor and get ready to put on the roof. A team from Australia comes to help out. We visit Fugwa as a family while Perry conducts a leadership seminar for the pastors and leaders in the Fugwa district.

August – Perry begins to shift from construction to development of the new curriculum and deal with the planning and materials involved in opening the school in March of the next year.

September – Perry’s mom and step-dad come to teach at the primary school at Ukurampa. Perry goes to Alia to teach a leadership seminar with the pastors and district leaders of the North Polu district.

Perry and the Eccles travel to Wopasali and conduct a leadership seminar for the Poloba district.

December – Perry conducts leadership seminar in Mt. Hagen. We visit Lae and enjoy getting to know the Eccles family.
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January – Perry’s mom and husband, Stew (step-dad) come to visit. Go on vacation to Madang. They spend three months working at the boarding school in Ukurumpa. John lives with them for one term.

March – Ten students arrive to begin school. A team from Indiana is here as well to help in finishing work on the classroom building in preparation for the opening of the school. Two of the rooms in the classroom building are converted into dorm rooms for the first year.

April – Throughout this year work on leveling the land and developing gardens is done with the assistance of the students.

We travel to Lae to visit the Eccles and learn about the Wesleyan work in this area. When we return home thieves try to break in our house. We wake up in time and nothing is stolen.
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January – Perry’s mom and step-dad come for a visit. They will then go and teach at Ukarampa Primary school for three months. John stays with them for one term.

February – Work team from Indiana comes and helps finish work on classroom building and continue work on single student dormitory.

March – Ten new students arrive for school and the new classroom building is officially dedicated.

Nancy begins volunteer work as the music teacher at Mt. Hagen International School and will do this until we leave in 1999.

April – Travel to Takuru for Easter and to conduct a leadership seminar. Grandma and grandpa go along with us.

August – Work team from North Michigan comes and helps start work on the sanitary facility for the school.

Jeff and Perry climb Mt. Wilhelm as part of Jeff’s boy scout outing. At 14,700 feet it is the highest mountain in Papua New Guinea.

September – Perry’s mom and step-dad come back to PNG for another three months helping out at the Ukurampa primary school.

December – Children’s choir and adult choirs both have great performances. We take a vacation trip to Madang.

January – Rosas come to help Perry finish the married student dorm and kitchen in time for school opening the end of February.

Travel to Wopasali to hold leadership seminars and help lay out foundation for new primary school.

February – Our truck is stolen from the work site. Sixteen days later as we begin National Conference the police find and return the truck.

National Conference is held at the new bible school and we dedicate the new campus. Tom Armiger is the guest speaker at the dedication.

March - Perry’s brother Dan and wife Julie come to hold concerts and share in the Ukurampa Secondary schools spiritual emphasis retreat. He holds 12 concerts with us. One of them is in Fugwa. They are with us for three weeks.

September – School begins missions and ministry program to help plant new churches around Papua New Guinea.

Thieves break into our house. God is good they are seen and have to leave quickly and only take a few things.

November – Students organize special district revival and training program. They are involved in the teaching and preparations.

December – Perry travels to Negebare to visit a student and do some teaching for the local churches. It takes 12 hours to get to the village and Perry’s knee gives out because of the rough terrain. Nancy and Jessica hire a helicopter to pick him up.
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May – We are asked to consider transfer to Guyana. They need help in constructing a three story classroom building. They also need a teacher to help in the BA and Masters program. The Latin America region is also asking for help in developing a missionary training center to help them in reaching their goal of sending missionaries.

June – We inform headquarters we are willing to move to Guyana. The people or Papua New Guinea give us a great farewell celebration.

December – Perry makes a trip to Guyana to meet the leaders, learn about the work there and visit the school where the children will be attending.

Buildings
1996 - Help finish remodeling of mission housing in Mt. Hagen
1996 - Assist Don in starting work on classroom building
1997 - Assist Don in work on single students dorm and toilet block
1998 - Build married student dorm and kitchen
1998 - Layout foundation for classroom building in Woposali
1999 - Put in foundation for second married students dorm
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July – Perry completes his doctoral dissertation and completes his oral examination for a doctor of ministry in missiology.

September to December – Perry teaches a course in New Testament at the school.

November – A work team from Florida and Indiana come and help with the work on the house.
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A team from Heritage Wesleyan in Moline comes to help begin the demolition of the old school building. The first and second floors are completely gutted and the school is moved to temporary quarters.

Bob and Anna Marie Stonoff come and help make the frames that will be used in holding the forms for the concrete work.

February – A team from College Wesleyan comes to help in demolition. The entire third floor is removed while they are here.

March to June – With the help of people from the local churches the remainder of the building is demolished. Also work begins on building the forms for the concrete work and the windows for the building.

April – Perry visits Paramakatoi and puts in wiring and plumbing at the mission house.

June – Our first son John graduates from secondary school at Georgetown American School.

July – We the help of gifts from friends we travel to the states to take John to college at Southern Wesleyan University.

August – Bill and Chase arrive and with the help of a team from Good Intent Wesleyan we dig the footings for the new building.

The next week a team from College Wesleyan (USA) and New Amsterdam(Guyana) come and pour the footings and 2/3 of the foundation.

The last week of August a team from Bethel Welseyan(Guy) comes and we finish the foundation, back fill and then pour the floors for the building.

September to December – Perry teaches the course Introduction to the New Testament in the BA program

September – A team from West Ruimveldt and others gathers and we pour the first section of the columns and beams of the first floor.

October – A team from Charlotte Street and others gathers and we pour the second section of the columns and beans of the first floor.

Perry attends the fifth general conference of Jibacam in Manaus, Brazil. This is the group that has asked him to help them develop a missionary training program.

November – A team from local churches gathers and we finish the columns and beams of the first floor.

The decision to build a classroom building for the bible school in Paramakatoi is approved and preparations are made to begin the work.

Tom Armiger comes for District Conference. While he is here we hold a promotion meeting at the new building site so people can see what is happening.

December – John comes home for the holidays. While he is here we form up the first section of the columns and beams of the second floor. The floor joists for a this floor are also put in place.
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January – A team from the local churches comes and pours the concrete on the first section of second floor.

A team from Hillside Wesleyan comes and we form up the second section of the second floor and pour the concrete with the help of a national team.

February - The Rosas and Mark Miller arrive and go to Paramakatoi to begin work on the classroom building for the school there.

A team from the Baptist Tabernacle and Heritage Wesleyan arrives. They work on the third section of the second floor. A local team pours the concrete.

March - A team from Oklahoma Wesleyan University comes and with the help of a national team we do the first section of the third floor.

Nancy begins a puppet ministry at West Ruimveldt. The team will be involved in a number of programs from March 2002 to June 2003 in various local churches.

April - A team from Western New York comes and with the help of a local team we complete the second section of the third floor. They also help block in ¾ of the second floor.

May - A team from Waite Park Wesleyan comes and with the help of a national team we complete the third section of the concrete work and begin work on framing the roof.

Perry attends the Wesleyan World Fellowship meeting in Costa Rica. Jibacam also has meetings and there Perry suggests a structure for training at several levels. The first would be taking a training program in missions to each country. The people are excited and six groups sign up to host the seminars.

John decides not to continue in college and returns to Guyana while he decides what he will do next.

June - A third team from College Wesleyan comes and we finish framing the roof and put on the wood sheeting to strengthen the roof.

With the help of John and Jeffrey and a couple youth from our churches we finish sheeting the roof and then put the metal roofing material on.

July – We vacation in Antigua and get acquainted with Rev. Christie and his family. He is the General Superintendent for the Caribbean Conference.

August to September – The rest of the walls are blocked in and the plastering of the building is completed.

August -Teams from the Logos help in general work and painting at the bible school. Jim Bross is here teaching at the bible college.

September – John returns to the USA. He has found a place to stay and hopes for a job in the Minneapolis area. Waite Park Wesleyan helps in the arrangements. There is a school with a program in carpentry but John needs to live in Minnesota for a year to establish residency. God provides him with a car with the help of the Fellowship Wesleyan men’s group.

Vickram and others help to lay the floor on the third floor. Work begins on the interior walls and one of the stairwells.

Perry attends the first ever Caribbean leadership summit. Leaders from Guyana, Haiti, Suriname and the Caribbean attend. Perry is able to share with them more about the missions leadership seminars.

October – The first Missions Leadership Seminar is held in Puerto Rico. This is where the Director of Jibacam lives. Thirty-five people attend this seminar and report that it was a valuable experience. Within weeks the DBA meets and reorganizes the missions committee for the District.

December – Don Bray comes for a visit and attends the first graduation and the dedication of the classroom building in Paramakatoi where Doris Wall is working.

Funds for the bible school run out and so work is put on hold. Perry focuses on the missions training program.
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January – Perry travels to Suriname to conduct the Missions Leadership Seminar(MLS). They expected twenty five to attend and were excited when fifty attended. Shortly after that they organized a district missions committee to oversea the work in French Guiana and help with future planning in missions.

March – Perry and family travel to Manaus, Brazil to conduct the MLS. Over 40 attend the seminar. On Sunday night all of the churches are invited to a joint service on missions. Over 300 attend this service.

Puppet Team holds a special program for the childrens ward of the Georgetown hospital.

Nancy holds a seminar in Manaus, Brazil on puppetry and ministry with about 20 people attending this seminar.

A team from Waite Park Wesleyan comes and we lay the floor for the second floor and frame in all the interior walls. A special treat is that John is able to come with the team and visit his family.

April – Perry travels to Barbados and Antigua to conduct the MLS. In Barbados over 60 people attend each session and the District decides to commit the district wide quarterly conference to promoting missions. Over 1200 people attend with almost 20 people responding to the call to go. In Antigua over eighty attend the seminar. The district begins the organization of a missions committee and starts to plan on doing missions outreach in other islands.

Perry travels to Costa Rica to present the MLS seminar. Thirty-five pastors and leaders from Costa Rica attend. There are also four from El Salvador, two from Guatemala and one from Nicaragua.

The puppet team holds a street program in one of the poorer sections of time. Afterwards a man offers to let CEF, the sponsors of the program to use his house to hold a Sunday school for children.

May – A work team from Brazil and College Wesleyan in Marion, Indiana arrive to work on the bible school building. This came as a result of the seminar in Brazil and the willingness of the College church to try something different. It was an exciting and challenging week as the three cultures (Guyana, Brazil, USA) came together to share serving God through construction. The five who came from Brazil were all pastors and were seeking to learn more about what missions is and what they can do.

Puppet team does a special presentation on AIDS at the University of Guyana. The focus is on abstinence. The program was well received with many requests to repeat it in other venues.

May - June Perry and Nancy travel to Chile, Peru and Colombia. Perry presents the Missions Leadership Seminar in each country.

September - Seminars are held in the Northern Jamaica and Western Jamaica Districts of the Caribbean General conference. A total of 178 people attend the two seminars

October - Perry attends the 6th Jibacam Conference in Osorno, Chile. He presents the seminar on Evaluating and Planning for missions.

April - Jessica joins the CLS soccer team. She is voted most improved player for the year.

June - We attend Wesleyan World Fellowship and General Conference in Grand Rapids, MI.

June - Jessica travels to Spain to stay with friends for a month. She will be their au' pere while she is with them.

September - Nancy begins work organizing the board that will be in charge of organizing starting and running the Ruimveldt Children's Home and Care Centre. This will be a special home for those children with HIV/Aids that have been abandoned.

September - Perry travels to Tehuacan, Mexico to present the Missions Leadership Seminar. Over sixty attend this seminar which challenges the church to become a mission sending church.

November - Work team from Eastern New York district comes. They focus on painting both the second and third floors as well as helping to finish pouring the last of the concrete on the third floor veranda.

January - John Hubbard and Valerie Nystrom are married in Worthington, MN in spite of a severe icestorm that covers everything in one inch of ice.

January - Perry travels to Venezuela and to Trinidad to conduct the missions leadership seminars. Twenty attend in Venezuela and 20 also attend in Trinidad. Trinidad begins plans on organizing a missions committee so that they will be able to plant a church in Grenada.

January - In one week we have over 100 inches of rainfall. This causes severe flooding all along the coast of Guyana. The church responds with aid to critical areas. The key area of work is at the Bethel Wesleyan Church which provides over 500 meals a day to needy people. The church becomes the center for relief work in the area. The Wesleyan church takes the lead in many relief efforts throughout Guyana.

January - In the midst of the flooding a work team arrives from Minnesota/Wisconsin. They are a great help both in the relief effort and in work on the classroom building.

March - Perry travels to Lima, Peru for the national conference. He presents eight hours of seminars on Mission Growth Principles. The conference responds by raising enough money to send Anita Carion to a mission training school. Anita Carion resigns as National Superintendent to accept appointment as the first official missionary of Jibacam. Over 200 people attend the seminars.

April - Perry travels to Chile to present the Missions Growth Principles seminar. The church has organized a missions board and is working on starting a new church in Uruguay. Over 60 people attend the seminar.

May - RCHCC purchases property from the Mayor of Georgetown to build the first orphanage for HIV/AIDS children in Guyana.

May - The puppet team travels to Bamboo Landing in the interior of Guyana. They do a puppet program for an Amerindian group.

May - Perry is the organizer of the first theological education conference in the region. Representatives from all but one of the training programs is able to attend, there are 22 in attendance at the meetings, which are held in Trinidad.

June - Team from North Carolina comes to help begin construction of the home. Work will be very difficult due to unusually heavy rains and shortage of cement, stone and other critical supplies.

June - We host a ministry team from Boa Vista, Manaus. The team consists of eight members who share the gospel through interpretive dance.

July - Perry, Nancy and Jessica travel to St. Lucia, St. Kitts and St. Croix. The Missions Leadership Seminar is presented in each of these islands which represent three of the districts of the Caribbean General Conference. There are over 200 who attend these conferences.

August - A youth work team from Waite Park Wesleyan came to work on the classroom building. The focus is on painting thousands of pieces of trim and pouring the concrete for the second floor veranda.

August - Perry travels to Ciudad de Valles, Mexico to present the Missions Leadership Seminar.

October - Perry attends the 7th Jibacam Conference held in Pueblo, Mexico. He presents a seminar on Communications and Missions.

November - The work team from Long Lake Wesleyan comes to work on the classroom building. They will focus on painting, casting the concrete on the final portion of the verandas and preparation for the dedication of the building.

November - The new classroom building for the Wesleyan Bible College is officially dedicated.

January - April we have six work teams that come to help in the construction of the children's home for RCHCC.

February - The puppet team travels to Barbados. They help in establishing an outreach sunday school in one neighborhood.

June - Nancy has second chemotherapy and is able to return to Guyana for Jessica's graduation. Jessica graduates at top of her class and delivers the graduating class speech.

August - Jessica joins SWU women's soccer team and starts school at SWU. Her goal is to graduate with a degree in special education.

August - Perry and Nancy traveled to Panama to get acquainted with the National leader Jose McKella and his wife Marquelle. While there Perry teaches a class on missions for the pastoral training program.

October - Perry attends a special Latin America conference in Bogota, Colombia. While there the North Bogota Wesleyan Church has a special time of prayer for Nancy.

November - Nancy has a cat scan which shows the cancer is gone. Praise the Lord.

February - Nancy attends the First International Women's Conference of Latin America in Costa Rica.

April - Perry travels to Trelew, Argentina to participate in the churches annual conference.

April - Nancy, Jessica and two friends visit the RCHCC home in Georgetown. While there they help decorate and paint several of the rooms. This is a special time for Nancy as she gets to see

June - Nancy's father dies at the age of 84. It is great to be able to be home and be with the family during this time.

July - The report from the Doctor regarding Nancy's cancer is wonderful. He says that if he didn't have a copy of the original biopsy he would say she never had cancer.

Buildings
2000 - Renovate mission house
2001-3 - Begin work on three story classroom building for bible college
2002 - Assist Doris Wall in planning classroom building in Paramakatoi

2007 From August of 2007 we attended the Spanish Language Institute in San Jose, Costa Rica. While attending school we lived with Marielos, a widow and her mother.

2007 - October - Attended the 8th Jibacam Conference in Lima, Peru. This was the first conference that Nancy was able to attend. At this conference Anita Carrion was appointed as the first missionary from Latin America. She will be serving in Equatorial Guinea.

December - January 2008 - Jessica spends her Christmas vacation with us. We enjoy a trip to a national park, ziplining, a visit to a volcanoe, a coffee plantation and of course a beach.

2008 - February taught seminar on Evaluation and Planning for missions at the Brazos de Amor Church.

2007 - August - Perry travels to Panama with a team from Christ's Church Wesleyan to explore the possibility of starting a partnership. He also teaches a course on Pastoral Counseling.

July - Perry begins teaching two classes on leadership and Nancy is teaching ESL to three groups.

October – Perry attends the fifth general conference of Jibacam in Manaus, Brazil. This is the group that has asked him to help them develop a missionary training program.

May – Perry attends the Wesleyan World Fellowship meeting in Costa Rica. Jibacam also has meetings and there Perry suggests a structure for training at several levels. The first would be taking a training program in missions to each country. The people are excited and six groups sign up to host the seminars.

Perry travels to Costa Rica to present the MLS seminar. Thirty-five pastors and leaders from Costa Rica attend. There are also four from El Salvador, two from Guatemala and one from Nicaragua. The church in Costa Rica decides to challenge its members to raise $8 per member for missions.

May-June – Perry and Nancy travel together to West coast of South America sharing the missions leadership seminar.

Chile – Though the distances are great and many have to travel overnight on buses to come forty people attend the seminar. One pastor had to travel by horse, then boat, and finally a bus to arrive. They have exciting ideas about reaching the islands for the Lord and reaching over the Andes to the their neighbors.

Peru – In spite of an earthquake near Lima, workers strikes and road blocks the pastors and leaders came. Some were blocked by demonstrations for more than a day but they still came to learn more about missions. What a great meeting. Over 50 attend the seminars and even though they were tired they listened and took notes. They have exciting plans about reaching the Indians of the Andes and even have begun work in the Amazon basin in Eastern Peru. They held a special meeting after the seminar to decide on what steps they needed to take to move forward in missions.

Colombia – It was a national holiday and still over 40 people came for at least one day of the seminar. They came prepared with critical questions. They are already involved in missions and have sent several but saw the seminar as an opportunity to learn more and to expand their vision for missions. They were and who will be sent.

August – Over 90 pastors and leaders attend the seminar in Haiti. Jeff begins classes at SWU and successfully tries out for the soccer team as a walk on.

September – Two seminars are held Jamaica, one each in the Northern and Western District with 178 people attending.

September – Sixth Latin America Missions Conference sponsored by Jibacam. The conference was held in Osorno, Chile. Perry presented a second seminar which focuses on how to plan and evaluate a missions program.

September - Perry travels to Tehuacan, Mexico to present the Missions Leadership Seminar. Over sixty attend this seminar which challenges the church to become a mission sending church.

August - Perry travels to Ciudad de Valles to present the Missions Leadership Seminar. Thirty people attend the seminar.

October - Perry attends the 7th Jibacam Conference held in Pueblo, Mexico. He presents a seminar on Communications and Missions. Anita Carion is officially commissioned as Jibacam's first missionary.

October - Perry attends a Jibacam General Assembly in Bogota. At this meeting a new board is elected and it is announced that the funds are in place to send Anita Carion to Equatorial Guinea for a year. She will leave in November. Perry is asked to speak to the leadership at the North Bogota Wesleyan Church. Over 300 attend. This is the last meeting in their preparation to launch a new outreach program which begins the following Saturday. As a result of their first outreach over 100 people are saved.

April - Perry travels to Trelew, Argentina to present the Missions Leadership Seminar. This is done during the church's annual convention. Fifty people attend the daytime sessions and almost 200 are at the two evening sessions. The church discusses opening a mission work in Paraguay and sending a couple to assist with the work in Spain.

June - Perry and Nancy travel to Puerto Rico. During this week three different seminars are presented. The first is on team building and the church. The second is on Missions Growth Principles. The third is on prayer and the ministry, presented during a pastor's retreat. An average of 30 attend these sessions.

August - Perry travels to Panama and teaches a course on Counseling for the pastors.

October - Perry and Nancy travel to Peru for the 8th Jibacam Conference. During this conference Anita Carrion is appointed as a Latin American missionary to Equatorial Guinea.