YES WE ARE FINALLY HOME!!

Thankyou a million times to all of you who covered us in prayer for this trip and of course those who gave to make it possible! We are so grateful to be home safely and thanks to all of the prayers only had to pay $100 each (which should be reimbursed by our insurance for the trip - please pray that all our out of pocket expenses that should be covered will). We brought Robin's mom home with us in her new car and Robin will be driving her back around Sept. 12 after getting the kids ready in homeschool classes and Ecclesia College Classes (Rachelle and Micah). We are thinking about having a get together to share about the trip soon so those who want to can come and see what God did. Please keep praying as we are still getting unpacked and getting things organized after being gone so long. Abigail got some kind of Ear infection that isn't going away, so please pray for that but we are so grateful that everyone else is doing great - just catching up with rest.

We are in Sardis, GA.

We finally made it to Ga. at 1:30 a.m. on Saturday night and enjoyed seeing "Gram" and "Uncle Bruce" (Robin's mom and brother). We enjoyed going to church together, eating out and visiting with relatives. The kids joke that we are related to almost every person in this small town! Today we had an awesome time of prayer and visiting with mom and getting things done for us. She decided to return with us and then come back with Robin on Sept. 12. So it looks like we will make it home closer to Aug.21 than Aug. 20. At least we are headed that way. We are still very tired and not wanting to get up when it is time, but that is expected with a long trip. Thanks again for all of your prayers. Keep praying!! See below for more pics and will post more soon.

Answered Prayers!!

Thankyou so much for all of your prayers. It took a literal week to get our reservations back that were cancelled by Avianca. We were supposed to fly from Bogota to Ft. Lauderdale on Monday but were told that there were no more spaces and we would have to fly on Tuesday, pay $100 each and about $500 each for the difference in the fares. David called on Sunday night just to ask about space and asked in English and was told there was lots of room and come on to the airport. So at 10:00 p.m. on Sunday we started packing to leave early to the airport. We got to bed around 12:30 and left around 5:30 the next morning From about 6:30 a.m. until 9:20 we stood firm waiting for God to come through and He did!! We were given our seats and flew out on Monday with NO EXTRA CHARGES!! Praise God!! We got to Ft. Lauderdale and our Pastor friends from Venezuela who pastor a Messianic Spanish fellowship picked us up with our van. We were so exhausted and they insisted we spend the night with them. The next day a missionary to Iquitos came by to meet us and brought her son from Spain and her daugher from Mexico who had flown in to be with their mom. The son was in the car with a lot of pain from his sciatic nerve down his left leg. We asked if we could pray for him. He is Catholic and not a christian and said yes. We went out to the car and began to pray for him. Then we asked him if he still had pain. He said a little, so we asked him if he could stand outside of the car so we could keep praying. We did and the pain went away!! He looked like he was in shock!! We told him that the Lord healed him to show him that he loved him and that God wanted a relationship with him that it had nothing to do with Catholics or Evangelicals, He repeated the sinners prayer receiving Christ as his savior and asking the Lord to baptize him with the power of the Holy Spirit. Boy was his mom excited and so were we!! God is amazing. Then the Pastor Hector wanted David and I to share on healing with his church that night and he called a special meeting. We had a good group and at the end were able to pray with them over many hurts they had gpne through from different situations as a church and as leaders. We really saw God do a breakthrough. Today we had to get our van fixed so while we are waiting I am writing our update. We cannot thank all of you enough for all your prayers. Will put some pictures up here with comments. When we get the van we will be travelling to Lakeland and hopefully get to go to the revival tonight!!

Pray we get our tickets back!

We really need a major intervention by the Lord!! They cancelled our flight home bacause our flight from the Amazon was cancelled and we didn't make it to the flight to Bogota so Avianca will not give it back to us without charging us bookoos of money. Please pray for the airline to l let us have them back without paying more money

We made it to Bogota!!

We got to Bogota after 2 days of trying last night around 9:30. What a blessing to finally unload our suitcases and see beds we could get in. We stayed up visiting with the Parra family while drinking some fruit juice we never had before! YUM! David has been gone all day today trying to fix the big problem with our tickets. When Lan (the airline) cancelled our morning flight to Lima then put us on an evening flight to Lima we lost our evening flight to Bogota and they also cancelled the portion back home!! So besides spending hours in Iquitos then again in Lima David has been trying to get Avianca to reinstate our original reservation. They are wanting us to pay more for each ticket just to Ft. Lauderdale than what we paid for the entire round trip to Lima and Bogota!! Please pray with us it will be resolved quickly. Today the kids and I went to one of the projects where there are 220 kids. They either come before school or after school (depending on the hour they go to school - there are morning and afternoon hours-. They have bible study, help with their homework, and other classes as well as a hot meal for lunch. The kids and I helped feed the kids and we got to play with them and talk to them. It was a holiday so many were not there. Tomorrow is the birthday of Bogota -470 years!! I guess we will see how it is celebrated. Thanks for all the prayers please keep it up!

Only 1 more day and we head to Bogota!

Our time here has been utterly amazing.
There are little motorcars here, which I am hoping to upload some pictures of. They are like a rickshaw driven by a motorcyle - a lot of fun to ride in. Only 3 adults -maybe 4 small ones can fit in them. There are hardly any cars, just motorcycles, motorcars , buses and a very few cars. The kids have really enjoyed riding in the motorcars, but sometimes the buses come so close you can literally touch them by barely sticking your hand out of the car !
Luis (the pastor we are staying with) took us on the river the other day and we went to an island that is like an animal reserve where you can hold and touch the animals. The kids held anacondas, monkeys, an anteater and a prehistoric turtle. The monkey would climb up their leg, get on their shoulders and try to climb down in their shirt. One grabbed Rachelles glasses and transferred them to his feet. She managed to get them back. David Luke really enjoyed the way the monkeys climbed all over him. The anteater was fun also -almost like a little dog.
All of the kids have made friends from the camp and love to worship with them. They love to hear testimonies from the Kimler kids and to spend time with them. I wish we could bring a group of kids here. They are so open to Americans and so hungry to grow in the Lord.
David had a good group of Pastors and he taught them how to build the water filter model that Thomas Soerens´class designed. They had a drawing and one of the Pastors won it. We wanted to provide funds for each to build their own filter but just did not have enough. They cost around $25.00 each for a household filter that holds about 5 gallons. There were around 20 pastors so as you can see that adds up. We are asking the Lord that we can give send money later for them. Then he taught the latin version of cat and dog theology. That covers missions and challenging them to be God centered in their focus on the word of God. Helen and I taught the ladies in the afternoon. Most were leaders or pastors wives with a few church members. We had a wonderful time of worship, teaching and ministry. The leaders seem so burdened with the cares of the ministry. Helen shared about burdens that are not ours and I shared about the secret place of the Lord - His presence, abiding in Him and being a lover of the Lord Jesus. They soaked it in and would share afterwards about needs in their own lives or church members. We finished the ladies yesterday and David finished the mens. Today we had the awesome priveledge to share with the married couples that are leaders. Some pastors from other churchs came with their wives. They learned to pray over each other which sadly is not a regular practice here. The American missionaries have left so many religious boxes that the Lord is wanting to break. Simples things like pastors feeling that a pastor must wear a white long sleeved shirt if he is really a man of God. I can´t imagine being in this humid hot climate wearing a long sleeve shirt! They equivocate putting God first as putting the ministry first and marriages have suffered with pastors not spending time with their wives or because they have to leave their families for months at a time to go to the river churches. We´ve talked to many who had no honeymoon but went straight into the ministry. Today we saw God move as they put their hands over each others hearts and asked the Lord to heal the hurts they had caused to their mates. It was so beautiful to see them holding each other, hugging, crying, smiling and then hugging with big smiles. We just sat back and worshipped and watched God work showing them the power they have to minister to one another. The Lord has continued to amaze us and show us his amazing hand every time we have trusted Him. It has truly been His work. We can take no credit. Only God can move in hearts like this. We had lunch with a woman who works with military men and also with young people. She had a houseful of young people that she wanted us to pray for. One young man shared his testimony how he had been kidnapped by guerillas and spent 2 years of torture being forced to kill people and how he told the Lord if he would let him escape that he would serve him the rest of his life. Our heart went out to him hearing all the traumas he had been through. We asked the Lord to heal his heart and watched the Lord minister so beautifully to him. We are leaving now for a youth meeting. Tomorrow we will be in 2 different churches and on Monday we leave here at 6:00 a.m. to fly to Lima and then we leave Lima at 5Ñ30 p.m. (AR. time and Lima time) to fly to Bogota. Please bathe the rest of the time in prayer. Pray especially for our physical health and stamina as well as fruit that lasts.

Generation Without Limits Camp

We returned from the Youth Camp this morning. All of us are very tired and the keyboard keys are sticking on this computer so I will write more later. The Lord really moved and I believe every unsaved kid that came left knowing the Lord. There were 90 campers and 170 total including staff. Many deliverances happened. The Kimlers worked as a team and we had an awesome time.

¡Oh the Beauty of the Amazon!