Been Packed for a While Now!!!

okay friends! you are probably thinking, "who has time to post all these blogs---that girl has too much time on her hands!" well, you would be right. i do have too much time on my hands. i'm just waiting for that visa to come. in the meantime i thought i would show you my room for the past THREE weeks! that's right i've been packed and ready for THREE weeks! meanwhile, i've been wearing the same two pair of pants and same two shirts for quite a while now(cuz everything else is packed)---I HAVE WASHED THEM!!!

ok, those were my bags about one week ago. now, however, they are all organized and ready to go. and my room is clean!

well, since some of you, that i will refer to as my "special friends"(you like that don't you!), are not able to get my newsletters i am going to post some of my last newsletter here. this is information about the people i will be ministering to while i'm in Peru! please everyone pray for the Asheninka people!

The Ashéninka are indigenous people (meaning they are descendants of the first peoples in Peru and their way-of-life has not changed for hundreds of years). They live in some of the most remote regions of the Peruvian jungle. The only way to reach them is by boat or small aircraft. They live along riverways (tributaries of the Amazon River) and they survive on subsistence farming, hunting, and gathering.
Please imagine with me being born as an Ashéninka child (it is only by the grace of God that you were not). Now your first sights would be muddy rivers, thatch roofs, bamboo huts, open fires for cooking, and jungle animals all around you. Now imagine growing up where the only form of religion is to live in fear of this jungle around you. For example, every animal has a spirit, some are good and some are evil, and death is only one unfamiliar, undiagnosed disease away. The spirits of the animals, trees, sun, and moon are worshipped in hopes that you will not contract one of these unexplainable diseases. There is no truth; there are no absolutes, only fear. The closest thing to an answer is a village witch doctor who is truly the evil one disguised as an angel of light. As an Ashéninka person you would never go out on your own to seek truth because the only life you know to be real is life in the jungle. I mean really, what else could there possibly be? Now, as an Ashéninka person what if in the deepest part of your heart you KNOW this is not all there is to life, yet there is still no one to give you truth. Imagine, me—Lane Brown, walking up to you in your little hut and telling you that I have the Truth that your heart has always longed to know! JUST IMAGINE!!! What would you think? How would you respond? Would you believe this little white girl from some crazy place named the United States?
These are the obstacles I face as a missionary to these people. I so desperately want them to know the truth, and they may desperately want to know it; but we have lots of barriers to cross before the Truth is proclaimed.

i will live in Pucallpa and work up and down the Ucayali River(above) and other tributaries of the Amazon River

read all about them: www.asheninka.net PRAY, PRAY, PRAY!