John and Jenny McLamb
PRAY Oh sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth! Sing
to the LORD, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day.
Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all
with us… the peoples! (Psalm 96:1-3 esv)
Language We are John and Jenny McLamb. Lima where we targeted indigenous
We have 4 kids: Caleb (7), Luke (5), people who had relocated. Our
Pray for our indigenous
Elijah (4) and Hope (1). We live and time in Peru was not only beneficial
language learning.
Pray for our kids’ Spanish. work in Oaxaca and are currently in for those to whom we brought the
full-time language learning. Our gospel of Jesus, but also for us as
UPG
people, a UPG, are surrounded by well. We learned much about our
Our town is 1% evangelical. what you could call a “shroud of own shortcomings and were
They live in fear of spirits.
darkness”. Alcoholism, domestic reminded of our deep need for and
abuse and hopelessness seem to dependence on God. We have
Slow Growth
characterize the homes in our seen God use US volunteers,
35 years ago, first person community. Believing themselves to seasoned IMB missionaries, summer
trusted Christ. Today, there
be a forgotten people, they see little volunteers and national believers to
are only @ 30 believers.
hope to change their economic reach people with the good news of
situation, let alone find themselves Jesus Christ.
A Forgotten People
privileged enough to know, and be
People here say they are Our prayer, more than any other, is
known by, God.
forgotten. They believe that we would be faithful to make
their poverty cannot be
We came to Oaxaca after serving disciples. May we all, “Declare his
changed and they have
little or no hope. Jesus
our first term in Peru where we glory among the nations, his
offers them hope. worked first in an Andean village marvelous works among all the
and then spent the rest of our first peoples.”
term with the REAPSouth team in
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Jenny McLamb
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