Showing posts with label prayers answered. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prayers answered. Show all posts
Amy has kept you all updated on my health and now I guess I should give you a personal update to let you know about the last week and how I'm coming along now..... After this, we just need to stop talking about it :)
Last week all I wanted to do was to
stay in bed and die..... but Amy wouldn't allow it. Even though she
was in Lima she called just about everyone in Tarapoto in order to
get the right people to drag me out of the house and get me to the
right doctors at just the right time.
When I entered the infectologist's
office, the doctor was surprised to see me and exclaimed: “Hola
hermano Miqueas!” It turned out that this doctor knew me because,
over the years, I've taken several sick brothers from the villages in
to be treated by him. When he saw that this time I was the sick
brother he gave me the best attention imaginable. Praise the Lord!
After a blood test and lots of probing
they sent me to the Neurologist who hooked me up to a bunch of wires
and found that viral meningitis had caused an imbalance on the left
side of my brain resulting in terrible headaches and a persistent
fever. I know, I know, everyone already suspected that I have a bit
of a neurological problem :) Ha, Ha.
The doctors think I probably had my defenses lowered last month while making that 6 hour night hike trek,
swimming several rivers and slogging through the mud in route to one
of my villages. Of course, the yucca spit juice, crude chicha and
raw eggs we digested on that trip probably didn't help either. The parasites and bacteria surely made me more susceptible to the meningitis virus when I came in contact with it (I don't know where).
After this difficult bout with the
virus I'm now 25 pounds lighter, a bit tired and struggling with a
small stomach-ache from all the pills that I'm taking. Really, I'm
feeling 100 times better than I did last week and I'm getting closer
and closer to full recovery. I even felt good enough on Sunday
morning to preach at church..... I got kinda excited and went on for
a bit more than an hour :)
I know that many of you have been
praying fervently for me. Thank you! God has been merciful and
heard your prayers. So many individuals have written e-mail's and
they have been of inestimable encouragement to me. THANK YOU!!!!
Missionary quote of the day: "I am destined to proclaim the message, unmindful of personal consequences to myself." - Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf
Micah for the Tuttle's
Dear friends and family,
Thank you for your prayers! We are doing much better here in our jungle town of Tarapoto. No kidnappings, no robbery's, no falling into the septic tank, and no encounters with the police. Our neighbors have been able to keep their adopted son and are getting all the legal papers in order. We were able to move into our house last week and while the living conditions are still a bit rustic we are feeling quite comfortable. There is still A LOT to do but at the same time A LOT has been accomplished.
A few nights ago I had the opportunity to preach at a wedding. The place was packed with almost all unbelievers that were planning a huge drunken fiesta that was to take place after the formalities. Almost no one knew that the bride and groom had asked me to preach and so the crowd was quite surprised as I was invited up as the “Gringo preacher”. As I shared the gospel you could tell that the crowd didn't know what to do with me. They actually seemed quite stunned and on the edge of their seats, wanting to leave (a few did) but also wanting to listen. It was sort of like John the Baptist and Herod. They wanted to listen because it was so interesting but at the same time they wanted my head. I was great! Please pray that God would work in the hearts of those that heard.
-Micah for the Tuttle's
Dear Praying Friends!
I know that you all will be excited and encouraged by what we're about to share with you! Can we just stop for a second and give thanks to our good God before anything else?! He is so good, far beyond all of our imaginings!
When we were in the States just a couple of months ago, we were so glad to share what the Lord had been doing over the last months and years since we'd last visited. It is always such a good reminder to us too of how the Lord is active and working.
The big question many of you had was, “What will you do next?” Our plan was to stay in Trujillo for the Bible Institute (IBEM), look for new lodging in Tarapoto (the jungle) via friends & contacts and move back there – the plan was for this to take a month or two max! Yet, here we are still in December, writing you from Trujillo (the coast).
However, the Lord has just surprised us with a huge answer to prayer – a prayer we were almost hesitant to even pray because it just seemed WAY too big.
When Micah was in the jungle a couple of weeks ago, he took advantage of the time to look around for somewhere for us to live. Many of you know how potentially difficult it seemed it would be to find something that would meet all of our specifications. Near the city, big house/big lot for big family + extra rooms for hospitality to lots of guests – visitors from the river churches and city people coming to visit the jungle – all for reasonable rent. Right. It seemed pretty far-fetched to us too. :)
However, the Lord has provided what we see as a pretty much ideal opportunity. A mission organization would like to sell us their property, about a mile from where we were living before (close to the city). It was originally intended for a school (big building/big lot for big family), and isn't fully finished (so it's adaptable to our plans for lots of guests). Now here's the clincher, because anybody could find a huge piece of property with lots of room to build or a big fancy building with a blinkingly high price tag... but the mission wants another ministry to benefit from the property and has offered it to us at about a third of it's value.... They are asking for just $50,000! When Micah told them that we don't have that kind of money they came back with the amazing answer that we can pay for it over time... with no interest!!!!!!
Um... yeah. Are you clapping a standing ovation yet?! Seriously.
The lot is about 12,000 sq ft. and would be perfect as a base for river operations and Bible Institute classes, evangelistic Bible studies, offering hospitality, our homeschool and community classes. But taking on this project has some serious implications for us. If it all works out, we might be a little strapped with the payments, while living in rather interesting conditions for some time (think tent + 2 adults, 5 children), while we finish floors and walls and windows and... hahahahah! It WILL make for interesting blog posts/prayer letters, don't you think?! (see photos) But, all that to say, if it all works out, we'd love to hear from you if you're interested in bringing a team specialized in construction down for a visit early this coming year!! ;)
If you'd like more details, please don't hesitate to e-mail us your questions!
We'd love to share more! :)
Micah and Amy Tuttle
http://thetuttletribe.blogspot.com
[this was written a week ago now!! we have yet to arrange for internet!]
We made it! A big thank you to everyone who was praying for us on our trek back to Peru! Happily, we arrived in Lima without a single glitch. We are all pretty glad to be back. Thursday we'll take an overnight bus to Trujillo where we'll be excited to see everyone here on the coast and to get in on the (IBEM) Bible Institute plans before we prepare for our move back to the jungle. [we're here now! bus trip went well!]
Yesterday we spent some time looking for a much needed vehicle. We've outgrown our good ol' faithful, yet tired 25yo Isuzu Trooper, lovingly referred to as the 'Tuttle Trooper' which has now broken down in the middle of nowhere on our last three trips from the jungle to the coast (17hr drive).
We mentioned our need of a new vehicle to a few people who specifically asked, and I want to share how really neat it has been to see how God has already begun to provide for this! Last Sunday just before I got up to preach, Uncle Dick from EBC in Portland, came to me and said "Someone has just given $1,000 for your car fund"... I thought, 'Wow, we don't even have a car fund!' When I finished preaching he said, "I just received another $1000 for your car!" Later, at lunch Dick called my parents' house to say, "$1,700 more!".... We are floored by the goodness of God through the generosity of His people! God provides!!!
Over the last few months we have set aside about $5,000 for a van. Added to the gifts from Eastgate Bible Chapel, we now have about $9,000. The van we're looking at is going to cost just under $20K. This is a LOT of money and we are not sure what God will do, but He continues to amaze and we want to praise Him for it! If you would like to help us buy a van, financial support can be sent to:
P.O Box 13, Spring Lake N.J, 07762
[enclose a note: "gift designated for Micah and Amy Tuttle - buy a VAN"]
or you can also now give online!
Visit our page @ CMML.us
All passports are found and ready to be picked up. Micah´s Peruvian travel document rests safely in his wallet...
Praise Him with us?!He is the one you praise; He is your God, who performed for you those great and awesome wonders you saw with your own eyes.
Lord willing, we will be traveling tomorrow night as planned, as a family!! Praises!
Missions involves a lot of different things: it's preaching the gospel, it's making disciples, it's planting churches, it's strengthening the churches, it's helping the needy, and it's, above all things: MAKING GOD'S NAME GREAT AMONG THE NATIONS.
Missions last week, was leaving home at 3:00 a.m. It was preaching on the radio, it was visiting several remote villages , it was discipling three young men along the way, it was handing out tracts and giving away New Testaments, it was preaching in church buildings and it was preaching in the open air. It was defending the brothers from false doctrine and it was reading the Bible out loud for hours.
Missions last week was hunting a jungle pheasant for lunch. It was showering in a hot water spring, it was hiking for hours through the muggy jungle, it was eating smoked ocelot meat, it was using filthy outhouses, it was getting soaked in a torrential thunderstorm and it was sleeping on hard dirt floors.
Missions last week was praying with the believers, it was singing hymns in the canoe, it was having meetings with the elders until 1am, it was giving council to broken marriages, it was being mocked by a group of drunken men, it was giving out anti-parasite pills, it was preaching in schools and it was putting on evangelistic films by generator.
Missions last week was helping make bread in a mud oven. It was playing volleyball with a bunch of high-schoolers, it was living one whole day on just coconut milk, it was hearing stories of 30 meter long anacondas, it was watching incredible sunrises and sunsets, and it was a dusty, bumpy 5 hour drive back to town.
Missions last week was hearing squeals of joy when I knocked on the door, it was hugging my wife and my kids when I walked in the house. It was thanking God for His love and protection. It was MAKING GOD'S NAME GREAT IN OUR HOME.
Micah for the Tuttle's
Click the link below to see the photo album of highlights from the trip!
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| October. 2010 |
In the past few weeks we have been able to put up walls and a roof for the bathrooms, kitchen, and Sunday school area. There is still much to do on the actual construction site and even more to do as for spiritual construction! We want to thank you all for your prayers and financial support, all helpful in establishing this church.
Muchas gracias!
See our latest video here
(It's only 40 seconds so it shouldn't take too long to load :)
Micah for the Tuttle Tribe
Oh my! We are overwhelmed! 3 people have written offering to buy us a new digital camera!
This brings to mind 2 things:
- Our friends are SO nice!
- We now wonder that maybe it sounded like we were ASKING for a camera! hahahah. Well, the Lord knows we need one, even if we weren't necessarily asking you all to send us one!
Thanks so much!
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