This is Mike and Susie.
Ever come home to watch the news, feel yourself growing with anxiety because the world seems like it's going to pot, and then wondered what in the world you could ever do about it- only to then resign yourself to kick your feet up on your recliner with some bon bons in utter defeat? (or maybe that's just me). Well, here's something you can do. I've gone to Peru, I've seen the work, and your giving will make a difference and will rescue people who desperately need rescuing. So, keep reading...
Mike and Susie are the founders of Amazon Medical Missions located in Peru. They met and married and several years later felt the call of God to sell everything, move to another country, and tell the people living in remote villages along the Amazon River about how God cares for and loves them mightily.
Having been to Peru for the last two years and serving alongside Mike and Suzy, I can tell you they are the real thing. They have sold out, bearing the cost of such work physically, mentally, and spiritually, but have triumphantly led many, many people to faith in Jesus and have promoted better lives for thousands of people.
Oftentimes, when back at the boat after a day of working in the villages, I glimpse Mike and Susie as they dine with us or sit and tell stories with us. And my heart safely knows they are people who have sacrificed it all for the sake of others.
"This is my command: Love one another the way I loved you. This is the very best way to love. Put your life on the line for your friends. " John 15:13
For the last two years I’ve been trying to figure out a way to bless Mike and Susie. When God healed my body after a ten year long struggle with hypoglycemia, I wanted to thank Him and glorify Him by doing something with my body it could never do before and thereby bless the work in the Amazon. That is why I will run the Dallas Half Marathon come this December.
I wrote Susie recently and asked her if she had any prayer requests. She responded back with this one:
"For Christian teachers to come teach in our school to our around 65 students next year." Mike and Susie have built a school where they are living in Peru to serve the little children there.
Susie also tells me this week,
“We are rebuilding the pueblo of Monte Calvario (Mt. Calvary) giving all families there a new home. We still have a ways to go, but would like to see that project completed with a couple more building teams at the beginning of the year.”
This is one thing your giving will impact. You can see a photo below further down this blogsite of the homes along the Amazon and imagine that the need for a new home is substantial and absolute as time goes by. Our homes in America endure for decades. These people work tirelessly to reconstruct new roofs for their homes every several months and the structures of their homes is not such to last very long. It takes workers and muscles, but finances as well for supplies.
I asked Susie to write you a letter after I wrote her about what I was doing. Here is her reply:
“A note from Mike and Susie Dempsey, founding directors of Amazon Medical Missions.
When we left the States to live probably the rest of our lives in the Amazon jungle of Peru, we had to trust the Lord for everything, especially to bring us helpers. We have been amazed ever since at the variety of ways that help has materialized.
Take Beth, for instance. She had struggled a long time with hypoglycemia, (low blood sugar), and the Lord finally set her free of that disease. The first thing she wants to do is to show her appreciation to Him by helping other people who are suffering in the Amazon with many debilitating sicknesses and disease by giving financially through Amazon Medical Missions. When God gives such great gifts so freely, people just want to give, too.
It is our most sincere prayer that you will honor Beth’s difficult labor of love in training her body, mind, will, emotions... the essence of who she is, to accept the challenge of running the Dallas White Rock Half Marathon this coming December. You all know that this is not going to be easy for her, but she has her mind made up and her heart set to do the deed and I believe that she will do a great work for the Lord through this.
We pray that by this unselfish act of Christian love displayed by Beth, you, too, will be challenged to look for a work God is doing somewhere in the world, even in these dark days of uncertainty for our nation, and make the decision to serve Him in some creative way just as Beth has done.”
I would like you all to pray for this mission which will be completed December 14, 2008. I would like you to ask God if you are to be a part of it by giving financially. I have raised $690.00 so far, but this was donated by two people. A certain doctor who has given of his life for years to go to the Amazon, teach, serve, and treat countless patients gave a big chunk of the above amount. I couldn’t believe when I received his donation. To think of how much of his life he has given, I was amazed he’d also give so much of his checkbook. I am inspired by him.
If you feel led to give, there is a little diddy on the top right hand side of this blog page detailing how you can give. Basically you can pledge any dollar amount you wish per mile I am running- 13 total. Even if it's just $1 per mile. Whatever you feel led to do. You can also e-mail me at Beth10@comcast.net with any questions.
Please help me bless our friends living along the River. You can see them below in some photos to catch a glimpse of their majesty. These fellow brothers and sisters, moms, and dads may be poor currently. But with your funds enabling Mike and Susie to do more work, they will come to know Jesus and find hope that they will be future rulers in heaven. Won’t you help me? (okay, now I feel like one of those horrible “Feed the Children” commercials- yes, I did. But that’s how much I love the beautiful Amazonians. With all my heart). I’d love to share in this with you. Because it's really not about a race or me or running. It's about furthering God's work in a place where souls desperately need freedom, mercy, and life abundant!
And keep me in your prayers- I’m busy running every day. And most of all, I am blessed to have a body that is ABLE!
To Him be the Glory!
--Beth
**For Mike and Susie- Isaiah 53:11-12:
"After the suffering of his soul,
he will see the light of life and be satisfied;
by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many,
and he will bear their iniquities.
Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,
and he will divide the spoils with the strong,
because he poured out his life unto death,
and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors."
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