The Team is Complete

The good news is that Jeanna arrived in Arequipa today. The bad news is that her bags were left in Miami. :( We hope she gets them tomorrow.

Today was spent preparing for the Gait course, which starts tomorrow. We ran errands to make sure all course materials were collected and we went to San Pablo University to check out the facilities. SBU is blessed with lots of teaching space for lab classes, so we know that we will have to be a little creative to teach a gait course in the smaller facility here. Part of the course may have to be taught outside to have enough space. But with the weather here being sunny and 70 degrees every day, we think we can pull it off.

Bev also met with a representative from San Pablo and representatives from MMI to discuss a future formal relationship between the three entities to bring more PT courses to Arequipa. It was a very good meeting with many bridges built. The future for a partnership looks very bright.

Amy here: I thought I'd blog a little about today. I got to sleep in some this morning as Jeanna was getting picked up from the airport and Bev and Jodee participated in their meeting. After lunch we got to see where the course will be taught: absolutely beautiful campus! Then, we got to make a trip to pick up the course manuals (which look great) followed by a trip to the Plaza. Each time to the Plaza has been unique because it always seems something is going on there. This time there was a religious event taking place with a TON of people watching and walking around. There were even large pictures on the ground created by people using colored sand. It was very interesting. I think Bev took some video :)

Just off the Plaza we went to a museum where we watched a video and took a tour. We learned about a sacrifice that was made on a summit of a mountain by Incans 500 years ago. They killed a young girl to appease the gods and the body was found in ice. The body has been kept on ice with all the internal organs still preserved. We got to see the frozen mummy and this girl still had hair and finger nails! As I was hearing about this people group and their sacrifices to the gods of their mountain, all I could think about the true living God and how He's the giver of life. I'm so thankful and eternally grateful to the God of the universe calling me one of His elect and drawing me to Himself!

Love you everyone! Keep praying that God would be glorified above everything else!!!!