How to pray for Calvary Chapel Bible College Peru this week (June 2016)

Carver Family Directing Calvary Chapel Bible College Peru Thanks for all your prayers and support of the Carver Family Directing Calvary Chapel Bible College Peru.  It is our desire to see the grace of God established in the lives of everybody that we know and for this school to be immersed in it.  We hope and pray that those who have the same heart would consider supporting, praying for and even coming down sometime to take a look at what God is doing.   GRADUATION Graduation this year featured two great students. Ishmarai Meza from Mexico and Josiah Hind from the United States (Picture top right).  I was blessed to present them with their certificates and pray for them as they head toward the next step the Lord has placed in front of them.  Josiah will be staying in Peru to continue to serve here as a missionary and Ishmarai is praying about an internship at the Bible College as soon as the Lord opens the door.  "Man plans his ways but the Lord establishes his steps."   YOUTH SUMMER OF MISSIONS

I present to you this year's summer program participants of Youth Summer of Missions led by Cory Kilgus (seen right).  Starting two days ago these guys are going to be in an intense 6 week training course for missionaries that includes teaching in the book of Acts, workshops, and a series of mission trips from the mountains to the jungles and all the way to the coastal zone of Peru.  Please pray for the word to be spread to all of Peru.  Please pray for wisdom as they find difficulties, that the difficulties would actually become the Lord's leading through the Spirit and they and all who are ministered to might have peace together in the Lord.  Amen!

Tonight I get the opportunity to teach at Calvary Chapel Joshua Springs at their 4 o clock and 7 o'clock wednesday night services.  Please pray for the teaching that it would be blessed and bear fruit.  I will be teaching on Psalm 46. "God is our refuge and strength a very present help in time of need. Calvary Chapel Joshua Springs is actually the church where my wife and I got married, and I will be teaching from the very same stage on which I said "I do."

I will also be sharing at my brother Bryan Carver's college group this Friday night.  Bryan is college and high school pastor of Calvary Chapel Nexus in Camarillo California.  Please pray for me Friday night.

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Hombres in the Mountains

Click on Ted and Nate to see a short 4 minute video about our Men's Retreat Matthew and Ivy Carver with Calvary Chapel Bible College, Peru MEN'S RETREAT FALL 2016 This semester's men's retreat was in an exotic location, with great times of sharing, adventurous exploration, a bit of discomfort, some opportunities for stillness, and, above all, wonder.  He leads us by still water...the mountains quake before his name.   Please click on Nate and Ted below to see a short 4 minute video of the retreat A little fruit from the Trip

This is Gonzalo.  He has been a friend of mine for 8 years.  He first got involved in the church when the Bible college was in Lima and it was there that we met.  About 4 years ago he got offered a job as a surf photographer for Nike and Hurley.  Due to personal reasons, and with the temptation of being able to travel and be a part of a something very big and exciting, he stopped going to church and his walk with the Lord diminished.  For the last 4 years he has been all over the world, he knows famous surfers that I have only watched on internet videos.  But his life was very empty.  Due to many different influences in his life, he has quit his job, moved to our city to be a part of the Bible College aid, and was able to participate in this year's men's retreat.  It reminds of Zacchaeus when he said, "“Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold." While one of our staff members Ted Howse shared his testimony, Gonzalo spontaneously began to share his own testimony of being lost in the surf world and how much the Lord resisted him through that time.  At that end of it he said, "I didn't think that I was going to speak, it just started coming out."  The Lord used the power of testimony to bear witness to his ability to save once again.  Gonzalo is just beginning to walk with the Lord again, he says he feels refreshed, but he is still just barely taking new steps of faith.  Pray for him that his faith might be established.   Mission Trips

This Friday (March 25) we are sending all of our students on our semester missions trips.  We are visiting 3 cities in the North of Peru: the jungles of Iquitos and Moyobamba and the mountains of Cajabamba city.  Please pray for our students as they go and if any of you have it on your heart to support a student on his trip, please feel free to email us at TurkeyCarver1@hotmail.com.   From us here in Peru, thank you so much for all your love and support and prayers.  Please pray for the establishing of the Bible College, the classes, the mission trips, and that God's word might become known through Peru.

Copyright © 2016 Calvary Chapel Living Hope (with Calvary Chapel Bible College Peru), All rights reserved.  Support Info: All checks payable to Calvary Chapel Living Hope at the address below - Memo: Carver Family. Or at http://www.cclivinghope.org - Click "Select a page", "On-line Giving", "Missions:Carver Family"  Our mailing address is:  Calvary Chapel Living Hope (with Calvary Chapel Bible College Peru) 625 Seagaze Dr. Oceanside, CA  92054

A string of events caused by grace

Click on my face above to see a video of our most recent outreach to our local community of Llacanora.  

A string of events caused by grace

Good morning from the Andes Mountains.  Thank you for your interest in what God is doing here at Calvary Chapel Bible College, Peru.  I would like to tell you a story, something I was able to be a witness of over the last few weeks, concerning a string of events that displays the direct connection between our first class of the semester and the direct fruit born in the outreach seen above in the video. This year God led us to open up our semester with our first class “Growing in Grace” taught by Brad Lambert from CC Living Hope in Oceanside, CA (class seen above). Our principal goal as a school can be expressed in the words of the title of the class, that we might see God raise up an army of Christian servants who are driven by grace.  In the class a contrast was made between “Old Covenant, law driven” servants of God and “New Covenant, grace driven” servants of God.   Now I would like to introduce you to one of our students Alexis Fiestas (seen above).  Alexis, before arriving to Calvary Chapel Lima, was in a ministry for a long time that he would describe as Old Covenant.  They had a program, they were strong, but he couldn’t find the Lord working in his life in that ministry.  He then arrived at Calvary Chapel Lima and finally to the Bible College where he has learned about the grace of God.  He summarises the change like this, “Before, legalism was more important to me, now, the people are more important.”  A week after the end of “Growing in Grace” we had our first semester outreach to the central plaza of our small farming community called “Llacanora" (video above).  Alexis was placed in charge and he led it with emphasis toward people and relationships and with less emphasis on program and schedule.

Alexis' emphasis bore fruit!  During the outreach, the students as a whole were, on their own initiation, pursuing the people.  Toward the last hour or so of the outreach one could see students scattered throughout the plaza talking one on one with the people, meeting them, praying with them.  The next Sunday at our brand new on campus church service, we received our first two non-student or staff attenders, two people from the community who we were able to reach through the outreach!  There names are Nancy and John.  They brought their children and their children were able to enjoy Sunday school.  This is the kind of the fruit that we love and expect to see if it is God moving through this school, and I am so privilegded to be a part of it.  It begins with the word in class, and it reaches one student leader, it changes his emphasis, it spreads to many students, it reaches into the community, and it begins to light a fire in the hearts of men.  This is not a man centered work!  This is God, showing grace and lighting hearts on fire with passion as a result. Thank you all so much for being a part of the fruit of this ministry.  Please pray that our current classes: "Daniel" with Marquitos Martinez, "Pastoral Epistles" with Kevin Green, and "Proverbs" with John Bonner would bear fruit as well.

The staff and student body of CCBC Peru Spring 2016.   Construction has been happening at break neck speed the last few weeks.  This is a recently finished room in our administration building where we are currently meeting for church services.  We call it "the sun room."  It looks sunny, doesn't it? A team from Seigen, Germany was here for three weeks and tackled huge amounts of the construction project.  And they were a hilarious group of guys.  I never thought I would come to Peru and learn some German.   Women's retreat just last weekend at Laguna Seca Resort.  Theme: John 15 Pastor Brad from Calvary Living Hope, when he taught the Growing in Grace class brought three good friends of mine with him to support the work.  They were a blessing to me and to the class and also did some work on campus.  Mike Farril (to the right of Brad), Jared Younger, and David Mealy (both on far right).   One of the things the German team tackled was the roof of the auditorium.  Pretty soon we'll be meeting in here to have church services and classes.

Thank you for your prayers from the Carvers.  Please pray for wisdom in discipleship of the students, which is the most important focus of the ministry.  Also please pray for wisdom concerning the next step in our family life, the education of our children.  There are so many options and in our situation we need the Lord to direct us to the right one.  God bless you all...until the Lord comes.

Copyright © 2016 Calvary Chapel Living Hope (with Calvary Chapel Bible College Peru), All rights reserved.  Support Info: All checks payable to Calvary Chapel Living Hope at the address below - Memo: Carver Family. Or at http://www.cclivinghope.org - Click "Select a page", "On-line Giving", "Missions:Carver Family"  Our mailing address is:  Calvary Chapel Living Hope (with Calvary Chapel Bible College Peru) 625 Seagaze Dr. Oceanside, CA  92054

With Jesus in his trials

The end of the Semester Fall 2015

The people, they are saying

"They are crazy..." they do tell

"To go to a place to teach the bible, 

where cows and donkeys is what they smell."

These people, let them keep saying.

We permit them! Let them tell!

All the more we will keep on praying

Cause we've seen God provide a well.  

Update on semester beginnings, class teachings, well diggings, and upcoming new baby happenings.   View this email in your browser

Woohoo Semester Beginnings The Fall 2015 student and staff  This semester we have with us a brand new group of students.  They come from all over.  From Lima, Peru; Iquitos, Peru; California, and even one from Yucatan in Mexico.  This new group is exciting because they come focused and prepared.  As new adjustments have begun and staff and students alike are getting to know each other, it is apparent that the bond of unity that the Lord has placed inside every believer is present and alive in this group, uniting beyond language, culture, place of birth and skin color is present.  Amongst the cultural blunders and translation confusions which have always been a commonality at CCBC Peru, there is present with us an understanding that the Holy Spirit of God is he who  unites and that he is more than sufficient to do so.    This is semester started off in a new way in that John Bonner (the Founder and President) and the rest of the board decided that it was time he began to take less of a day to day role in the affairs of the college and to take more of a role in general oversight.  This frees John up to travel and teach in various roles all while still remaining the president of the Bible College while Matt will be come the Director and manage the day to day ministry.  "There's a lot involved in being the Director over this campus, but I'm very excited and I believe the Lord has led us this way.  First order of business is to make us a master key."   This semester I was the teacher for the 2nd class which ended up being Ecclesiastes.  It was a blessing to watch the students understanding grow as they got to see the reality of a man (Solomon) who tried to live without the reality of God in his life and where that led him in his thoughts.  One of the things we hit on was that, in the end, the closest Solomon ever got to God was law based religion.  And that led him to dark places in his thought processes and behaviour.  But we as Christians experience something called the transforming of the mind that occurs when one is brought near to God by the blood of Christ.  Solomon's conclusion was that all was vanity, but for us Christians, "in the Lord [our] labor is not in vain." (1 Cor. 15:58).  The best part of the class was that my wife got to be my translator (she's the best one on campus).  I taught in Spanish and my wife translated me into English.

A few months ago our old well took a turn for the worst.  With the dry season coming fast and the ever present threat that the community wells would dry up (they do every year), we had to act fast but we didn't have the money for a new machine dug well.  Our head contractor, Santos, saw our dilemma and offered to dig us a well by hand.  He is a new Christian who got saved during his time working here at the college. Since then he has become a great example of service and patience and is maturing fast.  At first I just brushed off the suggestion as crazy.  But as he explained it to me it sounded (still crazy) but at at least doable.     The idea is this.  He starts with a cement column that he has a molde for.  He digs down a meter and the cement column drops.  He then makes another one on top.  The next day he digs a meter more and both cement columns together drop, and then he adds another.  Every day he digs and at the end of the day he lets the whole column together drop and then adds another on top.  Incredible right?     So sure enough we are now at about 75 feet down and every morning they find at least 6 feet of water at the bottom of this thing.  So they pump it out and keep digging.  The goal is 100 feet in order to have about 15 feet of water.  At a meter wide that equals something like 4000-5000 liters.  That's actually 18 times as much as our old "machine dug" well could hold. The lord has answered our prayer for water in a great way and within the next few days we should have a pump down there and be able to get enough water to live off of.  Interestingly enough, it occurred just in time.  The city just restricted our water Sunday.  Some of us are without showers, but with our new well we are going to make it.

Please pray for Ivy as she is due in October (next month).  We are having a little baby boy (all the doctors are sure of it) and we are going to do it here in Cajamarca (When I say we I mean mostly Ivy since she will be doing the majority of the work.)  Pray for a good doctor and healthy circumstances.   This week Pastor David Landry is here from Calvary Chapel Casa Grande New Mexico and he is teaching the students the book of Romans.  I am translating him into Spanish along with 2 other staff members.   This October 4th there will be a CCBC Peru reunion/Appreciation Night in which all who have been involved in the ministry over the years might come and participate.  We will not be there personally, but you are all welcome and invited.   Ivy and two other moms on campus have taken the initiative to start a homeschool group for the children here on campus.  Ivy is in charge of teaching them their letters.   This is my official Peruvian Drivers license.  It took about 1 week to get.  In the process I got accused of cheating on the test because the computer malfunctioned, I was told that they wouldn't accept my Calvary Chapel Bible College degree as proof that I was educated, and when I finally passed it was communicated to me with one word, "cerveza!" (he told me that I had passed by telling me that I should go drink some beer - I almost didn't get it. )  It was a strange process but halelujah I can drive.

Copyright © 2015 Calvary Chapel Living Hope (with Calvary Chapel Bible College Peru), All rights reserved. Support Info: All checks payable to Calvary Chapel Living Hope at the address below - Memo: Carver Family. Or at http://www.cclivinghope.org - Click "Select a page", "On-line Giving", "Missions:Carver Family" Our mailing address is: Calvary Chapel Living Hope (with Calvary Chapel Bible College Peru) 625 Seagaze Dr. Oceanside, CA  92054