Category Archives: Mission South America

The Big Five!

On Thursday our “Super Hero in Training”  (as his shirt says) turned 5 and we celebrated with a Batman Birthday Party! Jakob told me he wanted to play Batman games, have a birthday cake (NOT cupcakes) with M&Ms and marshmallows on it, and he wanted to play home run derby at the park. Well, he [...]

Yoakum Family Update – Newsletter 08

One of our goals for this year is to do a better job communicating with all of you who are interested in our ministry.  We have tried to update our email mailing list and have decided to post our newsletter on our blog, too.  So, to all of you interested in what we are doing [...]

Guess who’s in Lima, Peru? and on their way?

I have lots to catch up on about our Holiday visit in Texas, so stay tuned for that.  I’m getting more and more behind, so I figured just writing something is better than nothing and these somethings are really exciting… The very same day we arrived back from our vacation, we also welcomed our very [...]

Please help the Thompson family!

Our teammates, The Thompsons, abruptly lost their financial support just over two months ago. They left their home here in Lima with the hopes of returning to it as soon as possible.  They flew back to Texas and started blazing down that fundraising trail once again.  We, as a team, have no doubt that Lima [...]