The Georges in Peru
Can you find the mistake in this picture?
My childhood babysitter used to subscribe to Grit Magazine, which had a puzzle each week, "Can you find the six errors in the following cartoon?" As a child, I spent hours searching through a stack of magazines finding errors. Can you see what's wrong in this picture?We are in the…
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Can you Find the Wound in this 3 y/o?
"Can you bring some money to the ER for me?" my swimming buddy Chris asked. His wife had gone to the highlands leaving him riding herd over their three kids back in Arequipa. While playing at the same park Ben and Sarah used to play in 18 years ago, his three-year-old fell and cut open…
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Could you please stop rioting? We're having a Bible study here!
This morning, I was in charge of leading the Bible study for the missionary team at another missionary's house. We were about to begin when a loud commotion started outside. Riot police with shields were protecting a man with a generator and arc welder that was cutting the hinges off of…
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Thankful for car alarms
Here in Arequipa, it seems like crime has gone down since when we arrived in 2000. My informal poll of taxi drivers reveals a similar sentiment. One of our missionary colleagues that has had his spare tire stolen three times would probably disagree. I assume it is because…
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Do you take these Women to be your Wedded Wives??
Well, the priest didn't actually say that, but he could have. Mary Beth's friend Elisabeth invited us to her wedding yesterday. She didn't tell us that there were actually 103 couples getting married at the same time in a mass wedding organized by the mayor of the district Elisabeth…
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Passing on the Baton
What do you see in this picture?This is a picture taken of our families playing volleyball at SIM's camp a couple of days before our wedding. Missionaries started this camp about 20 years ago with some Peruvians who also dreamed of a Christian camp in southern Peru. They worked hard to…
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Sarah and Zach's wedding
Saturday, my little girl Sarah married my wonderful new son-in-law, Zach Davis, in Wheaton, IL where they go to school. Since Paul and Mia had a one-week break from school, we were able to fly to Chicago and spend the preceding week helping with the wedding preparations, visiting auntie Sandi…
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Carlos Saves the Day
On Monday mornings, Mary Beth goes out to SIM's camp to play horse wrangler in the morning and kid wrangler in the afternoon. (Neighbor kids visit her apartment in the parsonage to play games and learn how to apply to the Bible to their lives.) It takes about two hours to get there if…
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The Continuing Tree Saga
This afternoon I looked down the street to see how the tree I had transplanted was doing and saw a ton of bricks (okay, probably a lot more than a ton) piled up where the tree had been. Clearly they had decided not to let this little tree obstruct their task at hand. It wasn't until I…
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About Us
We are Allen and Mary Beth George from Nebraska and Manitoba respectively. Allen has been serving in Peru with SIM since 2000 when he arrived with his late wife, Amy. Mary Beth has been serving in Peru since 2005. Sarah & Zach are both in their medical residencies in Chicago (Sarah in emergency medicine and Zach in family medicine). Ben is working for Ahlstrom-Munksjö in Taylorville, Illinois. Mia is in her 2nd year studying physical therapy at Loma Linda U. in California. Paul works as a programmer at Epic in Madison, Wisconsin.
What are we doing?
The Georges are church planting in Punta de Bombón, a town about about 6000 people on the coast of Peru.