Friends and fam... Hello hello!
I hope 2020 is already off to an incredible start for you all. The start to a new year is always a special time but when it's a start to a new DECADE?! We are soooo thankful two of our best friends, Josh and Sarah were able to join us in Lima shortly after Christmas for a week. Having familiar faces here was so surreal and we still get dumb-smiles on our faces when we talk about what a special week it was. a couple quick updates before we get to the meat of this letter...
We are deep in a season of preparation and planning...materials to share with the Yanesha…
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Dear Future McCann’s,
I’m writing this at the 9-month marker of living in Peru. Maybe we’ll have to refer to this for a reminder at the 9-month-1-week marker, or maybe in 10 years. A collaboration of things we’ve learned over the past nine months, things we never want to forget, lessons we want to foster; written for the future Matt and Sophie:
Future McCann’s, it is SO true that God reveals Himself through discomforts. Hard things. Broken people. Uncomfortable relationships. Your own lack of adequacy. So…
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And that's a wrap for travel season, '19! We couldn't have asked for a better first couple of months. We didn't imagine all of the things we would learn or the ways that we would be stretched. That being said, this is somewhat of a re-cap newsletter so bare with us as it will probably be a bit longer than normal. As life slows down we want to be sure to fill you guys in on all the cool things that have happened that we weren't able to share in the midst of the craziness.
UPDATES
In the end of September, a lady from the ministry Faith Comes by…
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Hey guys! We made this little video to help show what life in the jungle is like! Because it's difficult to sum this beautiful place up in words solely, we thought this might help. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veD-w9nxdyE
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“You must observe my Sabbaths. This will be a sign between me and you for the generations to come, so you may know that I am the LORD, who makes you holy”
(Exod. 31:12–13)
I never really knew much about Sabbath. And then we moved to a South American culture and I randomly came across the book Subversive Sabbath by A.J Swoboda. And in the middle of adapting to a place where siestas are daily, efficiency isn’t top priority and life is just slower in general, I figured out that I am really bad at Sabbathing. So here is a hodge-podge of reflections/take-aways from this incredible…
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