The Goshorns Step by Step February 2020 Grandparents for the second time!!!!!! Mathew & Amber became the parents of Malakai (Kai) on 1/30/2020 one day before Matthew’s birthday. He was 6lbs 11 oz. & 19”. Someone asked me what it’s like to be a grandpa, I thought for a minute and said it seems normal, what doesn’t sound correct is that my sons are dads:) We left Peru on Jan. 1 to attend meetings with all the missionaries around the world from our agency. The meeting was on the island of Cyprus. It was an awesome week of learning and sharing with our teammates. When it ended we decided that since we haven’t taken a vacation in years, and we were 30 minutes from Israel, we would go. This was one of the most humbling trips I’ve ever been on and it literally brought Scripture to life. After this we headed to the states for the birth of Malakai. Before we left Peru we finished up our Christmas adopt a family. Each year it continues to grow. This year we had 62 sponsors. We also were blessed to have a store in Huancayo donate toys. We are so thankful for this event, it was such a blessing to so many families. We have arranged with the orphanage for Marguarita (age 17) and her sister Lucilla (age 14) to move in with us in March. We’ll be helping Marguarita financially to attend college and for Lucilla to continue her education. The sisters were going to be split up and sent to different areas of Peru. They were very anxious about being put with virtual strangers and wanted to stay together. Since we have know them
for 6 years, and Marguarita had attended the Bible study at the house last year, we wanted to help. We also received permission from the orphanage to have 6 other young girls come to our house for Bible study this year. We are very excited about this. A new Bible study for the moms of the kids in our program will be starting in March. Our friend Natalia will be leading and we will provide spiritual support and materials. We need lots of prayers for all these Bible studies as well as the feeding programs and the prison ministry. We’re going to have a medical team travel to the jungle this June. We have a lot of prep work to get done before then so this is another prayer request. The coffee is headed to the states right now. Our roasting company in Alabama also helped us import it. Daniel and Matthew are going to coordinate things on this end and get the coffee shipped as orders come in. We need help from all of you in order to sell this coffee. The web site for this is almost done so you will be able to place orders soon.
We humbly thank you for your continued prayers and financial support. If you haven’t yet, we ask that you would prayerfully consider financially supporting this ministry in Peru. Without more financial partners this ministry can not continue to grow. We love you all and thank you for being part of God’s work in Peru.