Category Archives: Blog

06 Aug

Anti-Independence Day

Last Saturday, we were shopping in a small store downtown when the storekeepers suddenly began to close up shop all up and down the street.   I helped the sales lady who was frantically trying to roll down the large metal door and safely lock us into the store. Meanwhile, the manager explained that protesters were

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19 Feb

Huanuco Paralyzed

This month the city of Huánuco was blockaded by angry peasants for a week. For seven days businesses closed, prices soared, food and basic goods disappeared from markets as protesters attacked any moving vehicle and clashed with riot police. At least two people were killed and many were injured. Everyone in our church community suffered,

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24 Apr

Hospitality

Since arriving back in the USA, we have been on the receiving end of a Biblical command. Saint Paul told us, “Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.” (Romans 12: 13) Devotion to God shows itself in our care for others. In six weeks we have slept in half a

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18 Apr

Tebbe Video Update

Dear Friends, Our family is back in the States, a bunch of states. In the past few weeks we have driven through Oklahoma, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. And we still have to visit Loussiana and several points in Texas. Visiting friends and family, and friends that are like

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19 Feb

February Newsletter from the Tebbes

Thursday, 19 February 2015 Yesterday, we said our farewells to fourteen visitors from four churches in three states who served here for two weeks.  The Living Water Denver Team blessed us with gifts of musical instruments (hallelujah!), laptop computers (hurrah!) and lots of hard work (hurray!).  That work involved quite a bit of blood, sweat

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22 Sep

On Don Quixote

“Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.”  Not all great literature is enjoyable even when profitable. Take Don Quixote for example.  We recently read the great Spanish classic. Miguel Cervantes is to the Spanish what William Shakespeare is to the

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19 Aug

The dangers of introspection

Introspection is important but dangerous.  For the Christian, self examination leads to self-awareness which often leads to repentance.  It can also lead to despair. How does that happen? One mistake occurs when we stake too much on how sorry we feel for how bad we have been.   The problem is that we can never feel

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06 Jun

The Ties that Bind Us

The Ties that Bind Us The world is woven together tighter than we often apprehend. At 1,250 miles distance, San Antonio Texas and Minneapolis, Minnesota are almost as far apart culturally as they are geographically. Yet, it is a straight shot between the two cities on Interstate 35. Recently, we were hosted by a family

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06 Jun

Welcome to Peru! and our new website

“Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.” – Martin Luther King r. Of course, sometimes you feel like you are about to go tumbling down the staircase. (A sentiment the reverend could sympathize with at times, I am sure.) Nonetheless, you do find that if your faith is

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30 May

On The Tarmac

Hello and Welcome to our first update. We are still at the initial stages both of this website and of preparations for the school. Creating an instituion from scratch is sort of like building an aircraft carrier and launching it at the same time. No small feat to say the least. The word is officially

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