Sharing the Love of Christ in the Amazon

“As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.”
‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭27‬:‭17‬ ‭

  It is good to be back home in Cochiquinas. After spending the holidays in the states visiting family, churches and friends, we have returned to the Amazon jungle of Peru. We have a new member the Lord has added to our team. My brother Patrick has been here with us for the last month and a half. He has been a great support. Taking on construction tasks, helping wherever there is need and he has birthed a fishing ministry in the jungle. My brother is an avid fisherman and was gifted a fishing pole from Jim at 414 missions. When he got to Cochiquinas he would go out to fish the Amazon in the evening. A bunch of kids came up to him because they had never seen a rod with a reel. So they saw him casting and wanted to try it themselves. They are hooked, pun intended. We are in the process of buying 4 fishing poles with reels and are going to use it to minister to the youth through prayer and Bible study. These kids are always at our house because they love hanging out with “Patricio”.

We got off to a slow start in February as we were in Iquitos for about two weeks. While we were in Iquitos, we were purchasing equipment and material for the construction project we have undertaken, visiting churches and friends we had made the previous year, and helping with a mission’s team from Idaho.

Once we were done in Iquitos, we traveled to a place called Cushillo Cocha which is about 12 hours by boat down river, on the Amazon to be a part of a boat training for the Ticuna leaders and visit the Bible training classes at IBIETA where they not only train pastors and leaders in the word but they also have a technical training program that includes computer literacy, wood working, welding, and mechanics.

  Later in the week we met up in Cushillo Cocha with the 414 missions team and did some pastoral training and helped with a team from Texas who did some medical outreaches and VBS for the kids. We are blessed to be under the banner of 414 missions, which is directed by Jim and Chrystal Booth, and our hearts are knit together with this incredible couple.

We were blessed to receive 50 pastors and leaders from the river communities and the Ticuna tribe in Peru, and Columbia during this 4 day training. We focused on the inductive Bible study method, where they learned how to observe, interpret and apply the Bible in their biblical studies and spiritual life in Christ. We graduated 10 pastors from this training and our next training will be in early August. Once the training was finished, we headed home to Cochiquinas.  

     We have 3 goals we would like to reach this year. We are looking forward to building a 1500 square foot dormitory, with a rain catching system, some solar power and about 10 rooms. The purpose for the build is to house 10-15 young adult men in March of 2026 and take them through 8 months of biblical study courses.  Right now we are in the process of drying out the wood in preparation for the build. Our build date is dependent on the level of the Amazon river. If the river comes up and covers the land in the community, we will begin in July.  If the water stops rising, we will begin in May. Please pray that the river is at its highest point.  

     The second goal we have is to plant the church in our community.  We have begun taking steps to come under the covering of Ibieta ministries, which will allow us to legally function as a church in Peru. We thought the jungle was a place without rules and we could do whatever we want, but we are learning new things every day. We have about 15 people attending the services right now and are focused on teaching book by book through the Bible. We have four men that we are training in biblical leadership and biblical counseling.  Our hope is to plant Bible teaching churches on the river, which seems to be in short supply.  

     The third goal we have is reaching  out to the local pastors and beginning a discipleship program. Many of the pastors in the river systems feel abandoned and are discouraged. The missions providing spiritual covering generally do not visit them and have little communication with them. They need to be encouraged. Our plan is to boat to these local communities, build friendships with the pastors and their congregation and offer practical, biblical care for them. They need fellowship and we are going to provide it. Please keep these things in prayer and we will continue to update you on the progress. We thank you for your continued love and support!

“Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life. John‬ ‭4‬:‭13‬-‭14‬ ‭

Hola friends and family, we hope you are well and the narrow road is the path you find yourself walking upon. We are finishing up our eighth month as missionaries in Peru and are preparing to head back to the states to visit family, friends, and our supporting churches. We want to give you a quick update about what we’ve been doing the past month.

We are blessed to be living in Cochiquinas, a small community on the Amazon River. Jungle life is definitely an adjustment, but God has been very gracious to us. We have been getting settled in and preparing the ground for a garden. Hopefully we will have some fresh fruits and vegetables next fall. We are still trying to figure out the best way to set up a water filtration system and our solar energy system, so any expert advice is welcomed!

Ryan is meeting twice a week with two of the men from our small church family, Juan and pastor Julio. He is doing some guitar lessons with Pastor Julio and is currently taking both of them through the book of 1 Timothy. They are spending 4 hours a week going verse by verse and it is such a blessing to see the hunger these men have for God’s word. 

A group of people have been meeting four times a week for Bible studies, worship, and prayer. Once a week some of the leaders do home visits to share the gospel, pray and worship the Lord with those who are sick. Two of the people they visited this week are Mario and Odela, one is a believer and one is not, both have very serious health issues and need prayer.

The more we meet with people, the more we see the need for a Bible teaching church in our community. We have been praying about planting a church here in Cochiquinas and opening a Discipleship Center. We already have a church building and we recently were able to purchase the property next to the church. When we first looked into the property, we were told it was already sold, but the Lord had other plans and a few weeks later we were able to purchase the property for the Discipleship Center. Please join us in praying about planting a church in Cochiquinas early next year and starting a Discipleship Center in March 2026. 

Ryan went up to teach at a conference in a small community of 500 people called Nuevo San Juan. This community is up river about 16 hours from where we live, on the river Chambira. There were about 400 people that came from surrounding areas for the conference and 100 of them were from an indigenous tribe called the Urarina. The people had such a desire to spend time with the Lord so they were up at 4 am for morning devotions and then spent the days listening to teachings and singing praise songs until it was time for bed. It was a great time of studying the word of God and worshipping the Lord. The end of the conference ended with many people getting baptized.

One couple from the conference is praying about moving their family to Cochiquinas to serve at the church and the discipleship center. Their names are Isias and Layla. Their family has had tremendous health issues in the past and they have witnessed first hand God’s miraculous healing. They are both musically talented and have a heart to serve the Lord in any way they can. Please keep them in prayer.

After the 4 day conference was over, it was time to take an 8 hour tour back to another city to catch another boat to head back to Cochiquinas. Ryan realized quickly he was in a boat with no bathroom, no seats and only a cover to block the sun. It promptly began to rain and the trip turned into 16 hours, no bathroom, 50 people on board, children included, it didn’t take long before everyone was wet and for the first time it actually felt cold. Needless to say, around hour 10, the boat started to take upon itself a unique smell. Then, the boat hit a sandbar in the middle of the river, and was stuck for about an hour and a half. The storm continued to worsen and the captain could no longer see and because he was also new to being a captain, he pulled over to take refuge and abandoned the boat for 2 hours while he stayed with friends in the small river community until the storm passed. Needless to say, the American traveler didn’t have joy in his heart but was so thankful when they were on dry land. What was amazing was to see the Peruvian people sing praise songs, praising the Lord despite their circumstances. Through it all, God received the glory!

The rainy season is here and the great Amazon River is slowly rising. More people will soon have better access to much needed water and the smaller tributaries that were dried up will be navigable again. Even though it can be dangerous to navigate the river and smaller tributaries because of the hidden sandbars and large debris in the river, it will be a blessing to be be able to visit the surrounding communities that have been out of reach when we return back from furlough.

We are excited to see family and friends and are looking forward to all the Lord will do in the New Year!

Please pray for:

– salvation and healing from cancer for Odela

– healing for physical ailments for Mario

– construction for the Discipleship Center

– financial sponsors for Isias, Layla, & their two kids to be missionaries with us in Cochiquinas

– clean water systems for the community

– travel mercies and our time while we are on furlough 

Thank you all so much for your loving support! 

Love,

Ryan and Karen Gause

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Greetings from San Jose de Cochiquinas.  Yes, it is official, we have moved onto the mighty Amazon river into a community of 3,000 people.  It is the Centro Poblado of this section of river, which means it is the center of 63 communities and the hub of ministry for us. This is the perfect place to begin to disciple local pastors and plant churches.  

We have been here about a month and it has not been an easy adjustment. The people are wonderful, the community leaders are welcoming, but the living ain’t easy. We have a jungle home, now we know it sounds like we are living in a hut with a palm leaf thatched roof, but that isn’t the case. We were beyond blessed to have wonderful missionaries come before us and build a house and church in Cochiquinas. We just installed some more solar panels, so we have power and we have a rain catching system, so we have water but we still need to make a filtration system for the rain water. We live in a beautiful little wooden home with plenty of space for the natives to invade. Now, by natives, we don’t mean the human kind. Bullet ants, mosquitos, a pet rat that we can’t seem to trap, termites that come out at 6pm on the dot in such numbers it is impossible to keep them out of your hair and more bug bites than we can count. It is hot and humid, all day, all night. This is another kind of living, going to take some getting accustomed to but we know the Lord is on the throne!

It is so great to make plans and then watch the Lord throw a changeup. When we came here to Peru, Ryan was confident that he would not be pastoring a church or church planting. We were planning on  discipling the existing pastors and that was going to be our focus. However, after coming to Cochiquinas, the Lord has shown us the need to plant a church and pastor it as well. There is a local group of about 15 people that have been meeting. One of them is Pastor Julio, an awesome brother in the Lord. Ryan has sat down and talked with him and another brother from this group and we have decided through much prayer, we will plant a church in March of 2025 and Ryan will Pastor it for one year. Ryan will be training both of these men in biblical teaching, biblical counseling, and biblical leadership. In January of 2026 Ryan will step into a role as an assistant and Pastor Julio will take the lead role. There are quite a few communities around our area that do not have churches, so one of our prayers is for God to bring us men to send out. This brings us to March of 2026.  

The 2026 plan is to begin a Discipleship Center in our town. Praise God we were able to purchase a piece of property next to the church on the river and the hope is to raise enough funds to build a dormitory and class room. We are hoping to construct the building in June of ‘25 and have everything set for the following school year.  The goal is to have 10 to 15 students the first year and go from there.  Please keep these things in prayer as we continue to advance the gospel together.

We have a lot of opportunities to minister in our community. One of the biggest problems in the river communities is clean water. We are talking to community leaders about putting in a system to help alleviate that problem. Also, there is no higher education for the kids who finish school. The kids finish school at 15 or 16 years old. After that, they generally go to the coco fields to plant and harvest. This whole area is controlled by the cartel, and this is not a very bright future for the youth. We are praying for the opportunity to open a technical school that would be connected to the discipleship ministry.  Teaching carpentry, agriculture, general construction, and even computer skills. The purpose would be to give the kids a spiritual education as well as teaching them an honest trade to support their future families. Please keep these things in prayer and thank you all once again for your incredible support as we seek the will of the Lord together, here in the Peruvian Amazon Jungle.

Prayer Requests:

Discipleship Center Construction

River Conference Oct 24-28

New Church Plant in Cochiquinas

Pastors and Leaders who Desire to Plant Churches

“Finally, brethren, farewell. Become complete. Be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.”

‭‭II Corinthians‬ ‭13‬:‭11‬

Thank you for partaking on this journey with us!

Love, 

Ryan and Karen Gause

“I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians‬ ‭3‬:‭14‬ ‭

   Hey family, we are on month seven here in Iquitos, Peru. It has been full of ebbs and flows. We have some great news to share and are excited for these next couple months as we anticipate the Lord really challenging us. Nothing of any lasting value comes without a cost and we expect there will be some sacrifices as we head down river. We are so thankful for the people and churches we were table to fellowship with during our time in Iquitos.

     The first bit of good news is that we have received our “Carne de Extrangeria”, which loosely translates “flesh of the foreigner”. Not sure if that is on any menu here in the jungle, but what it means for us is that we are legal temporary residents and can proceed to receive full residency over the next couple years. It has been quite a process but it is done. 

     Now that we have our residency in order we can head down river to our Swiss family Robinson home in San Jose de Cochiquinas. As I have written before, we have an awesome jungle home awaiting us, it is a beautiful home built by 414 Missions, you can check them out on you tube.  We have already moved our belongings down to Cochiquinas and we will be heading out on the 17th of September. We have a home, a church building and a piece of land we will use for chickens, a garden and whatever else we can grow.  

Our plan to start a Discipleship Ministry is going to be put on hold for a year. We were planning to start March 2025, but realized that might be a little ambitious or crazy, however you want to nuance it.

We realized that there is a lot of work to do getting to know the community of 3,000 people, building relationships with the town leaders, setting up infrastructure so we can house people and feed people. We will not be able to get that done by March, particularly because it will rain everyday from December to February. March 2026 will be the goal for the Discipleship Ministry to begin.  

Prayer requests:

The water level is really low here in the Amazon, please pray for rain so the “Peke Pekes” can navigate the river and barges can bring much needed supplies

Purchasing a piece of property next to the church to build dorms for students

Connections for ministries who set up filtered water systems, the drinking water situation is bad

Solar power for the church

Blessings family, may the Lord continue to guide you on the path to His eternal presence.

Love,

Ryan and Karen Gause

Hey family, hope everyone is well as we are in the thick of winter here in Iquitos, Peru. Of course, being south of the equator and in the Amazonian jungle, winter is quite different for us than we are accustomed to. The evenings are mild, the rain is sporadic, but it is still the jungle and there will be no snow anytime soon. We are acclimating to the culture and the climate, thank you Jesus! Here is a quick update on life and ministry.

It has been a very slow month for us. We are very excited to be completing our residency process here in Peru, but there have been some complications that have prevented us from going to Cochiquinas, where we will be living and starting the ministry. Please pray for our patience and perseverance through this process. It has been slow and frustrating, but let us not grow weary in doing good, for in the right time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.  

Ryan has had the opportunity to share at local churches and it is a blessing to fellowship with the body of Christ. This month he shared at Calvary Chapel Iquitos on Father’s Day.

We are blessed to be in our ninth week of Inductive Bible Study training. There are a group of 10 people who are really starting to understand the value of observation, interpretation and application, in a Bible study context. As a teacher, it is always so exciting to see the light go on when the student really begins to understand the subject. This study has been eye opening for all of the students, we are all excited. Praise God for His provision to provide glasses to one of the local pastors in the class.

As we are preparing to move down river to Cochiquinas, we have been very interested in learning how to grow fruit and vegetables in the jungle. The soil is terrible, too much rain, not enough sun, because of cloud cover, etc, etc. It is not the garden of Eden. The Lord connected us with an ecologist, horticulturist, named Dennis. He is a Peruvian native who has spent years in the Peruvian Amazon, as well as Africa and other countries. He is a wealth of knowledge for us.  We have learned about pigweed, yucca leaves and many more leafy greens that are high in protein and vitamins, in spite of the bad soil. He has committed to come to Cochiquinas to help us get started on a garden and further educate us in the nutritional and medicinal values of natural plants here in this great region.

“Oh, give thanks to the Lord! Call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples! Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him; Talk of all His wondrous works! Glory in His holy name; Let the hearts of those rejoice who seek the Lord! Seek the Lord and His strength; Seek His face evermore!” (Psalms 105:1-4)

Thank you for partnering with us!

Love,

Ryan & Karen Gause

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Hola Familia, we are heading into our fourth month here in Iquitos, Peru. It seems like we have been here for a year, but time is a strange master. This last month was a difficult one as we were all sick for about two weeks. The whole city was fighting something with flu like symptoms, but we are back on our feet and running.  

     We visited two local churches whose pastors are in the Friday night Inductive study class. At one of the churches, Ebenezer, Ryan taught a message and they sang a special song in their native tongue for us. It was a sweet little fellowship in the outskirts of town. The second church, Iglesia Cristiana Gloria de Christo, is a new church plant and they had a two day conference to celebrate their one year anniversary. Victor and Ryan both shared messages to encourage the congregation. It was a great time of sharing the Word and breaking bread with the body of Christ.

Victor and I have also had the opportunity to teach at Calvary Chapel Iquitos for the last 3 weeks while the senior pastor is on furlough. I have been teaching in Spanish only and it has been tough! The people have been very gracious with helping me find the correct words to say when they evade me. I have found myself playing charades sometimes to come up with the right words or phrases. It works well, the people are forced to stay attentive, praise the Lord. We will teach two more times and finish up the book of Colossians. On Thursday nights we are also doing guitar lessons for some of the youth at CCIquitos. It has been a blessing to get to know the people at this sweet fellowship. 

     Our Friday night, the inductive study is going great! We are in our sixth week and people are starting to catch on. It is fun watching them get excited about interpreting scripture within its context. The people are so excited to learn and we have great hope for their future as Bible students as well as teachers.  

     Karen and I recently took a trip to Cusco for our visas. We are in the process of getting our residency visas so we don’t have to leave the country every six months. The process promotes patience in the inner man, but we are topping the hill and should be starting the downhill run this Monday when our last document should be filed. We went to Cusco for the last steps of the Interpol process and now everything is in the hands of the Lord. While we were there, we did some sightseeing and we went to a mid week service at Iglesia Calvary La Semilla. It was a great time of prayer, worship, and fellowship!

     Please pray for us as we are heading out to a river community called Oran. We are going to be able to teach and fellowship with them as they celebrate their 50th anniversary.  We have done studies there before and they have been such a great church and very much on fire for the Lord.  

   We will be moving out to Cochequinas in August. Everything is still on course. We have a jungle home ready for us, a multipurpose church building and a couple other properties we will use for ministry. Jim and Chrystal Boothe, who run 414 Missions, are letting us use all of the property and they notified us we can use their big boat as well. Praise the Lord, we are set! What a miracle.  

     The plan is to teach a two week pastoral training course to the surrounding jungle communities throughout the year. As well as start a Bible College in the jungle where local river pastors can send men who would like to be trained for ministry. It will be an eight month course with an optional extra year for pastoral training. Please continue to keep that in prayer. We would like to make it free, so we are praying for the Lord to provide!  

If anybody has any connections with organizations who do water filtrations systems in the mission field or reading glasses distributions please contact us. There is a great need for both in the jungle river communities. 

We continue to be overwhelmed by the Lord’s guidance and provision in our lives. 

“And the Lord, He is the One who goes before you. He will be with you, He will not leave you nor forsake you; do not fear nor be dismayed.”” (Deuteronomy 31:8)

Thank you for your love and support! 

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     Our Heavenly Father is on the move in our hearts and in our lives. It is so amazing to see the hand of the Lord at work when He wants to get things done. Philippians 4:6 comes to mind. Prayer, supplication, thanksgiving and asking, according to His will. We serve a miraculous God.

     As you may know we have been in Iquitos, Peru for a little over a month and a half. Our heart has been to get on the river and train pastors in remote places on the Amazon.  What we have found is the great need and desire the river pastors have for biblical training. The question is, Lord, how do we do this? No boat, no base of operations, no knowledge of the river, no connections. The Lord delivers!  

     We were invited on a trip to a place called Cushillo Cocha. We were traveling with 414 Missions which is led by Jim and Chrystal Boothe. They have the same heart and vision as we do for river pastors and we went to Cushillo Cocha to help train about 12 pastors and 13 leaders from various river communities. It was an incredible trip and our hearts were knit together to labor in this ministry.

     As our trip was coming to a close, Jim asked us if we would be interested in running a base of operations for pastoral training out of a small river community 4 hours upriver called, Cochiquinas. This was an area we had been praying about since Ryan and a group of guys took a trip to the Amazon last June/July. Jim had already taken us to Cochiquinas on the way up to Cushillo Cocha and kind of planted the seed in our mind of doing ministry from this location. So, by the end of the trip, when he offered it, we were confident this was the Lord’s plan, so we agreed.

     One of the amazing aspects of this whole project is that Jim and Chrystal spent the last year building a beautiful jungle home, with solar, water filtration, and a garden.  They tore down a bar and built a training center/church with a kitchen and bathrooms. They drilled a well on another piece of property and they have a piece of property for agriculture, some of the property donated to them by the leaders of the community. Jim told us, it is yours to use, we have freedom to use it all for ministry. We were blown away. We had been praying for all these things and it was an impossibility, from the perspective of our feeble human minds. Our plan is to move to Cochiquinas in July. What is impossible for Yahweh, the Lord of all creation?  Now that this reality has set in, Lord what would you have us to do?

Our priority will be to the local pastors, training and equipping them. There are at least 20 communities within an hour and a half boat ride from Coachiquinas, better than L.A traffic. We don’t have a boat and that is a major form of transportation.  Jim told me that he has a 30 foot outboard that he will co-op with us, so we are going to be talking about what that looks like financially, but that will be such a blessing!  There is also a 40hp small aluminum boat for ministry in Cochiquinas that we will be able to use as well. Truly, God has gone before us.

     This is where the plot thickens. After this crazy trip, we went back to the river the following week to a community called Oran. Pastor Victor and I went to meet and teach 7 pastors and leaders from local communities. It was a blessed time.  God began to stir my heart to question these pastors about who they are discipling to take their place if the Lord called them home, half the pastors were 55 or older. They all said they have no one. I asked them if we had a base where they could send us some of their young men for discipleship, would they be interested? By the end of our time there we already had them signing up for something we were not prepared for. We prayed for a couple weeks.

     I called Jim of 414 missions, and asked him what he thought about the idea. He got excited and said that we can use the training center to house them and train them. Our prayer right now is using the training center for a Bible college to train future pastors and home Bible study leaders through an 8 month program. The river communities do not have the finances to send their students, so we will have to provide financially for their transportation and basic living necessities. We are planning to start next March with 5-10 students. So grateful for what the Lord does through His will, through His saints! 

During our remaining time in Iquitos we have been able to share at several local churches, train pastors once a week from the local river communities and churches, share the Word on a local Christian radio station and we are praying about a young adult study on Mondays. Please also keep in prayer the people who we share the gospel with, that they would trust in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.

Well if you stayed to the end, you are a trooper.  Please keep us in prayer.  

Con mucho amor,

Ryan and Karen

Prayer Requests:

1. People and churches to partner with us financially and physically 
2. Pastors and Teachers who would like to come and teach block classes
3. Someone who would like to teach English, they all want to learn
4. Patience and perseverance, this is going to be an investment of time and resources 

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     We have arrived!  We landed down in Iquitos, Peru on March 17th.  It has been a wild 3 week ride for us here serving in the Amazon basin.  We are very excited to see what the Lord has in store as He has already given us great opportunities to minister in Iquitos and on the Amazon river.

     Two days after we arrived in Iquitos, a Calvary Chapel from Colorado held a conference for over 200 pastors from the river communities.  Some of these pastors spent days on small boats to get to the conference, it was amazing.  The conference was a great encouragement for the pastors and we were able to share briefly about the “Rios de Refugio” ministry the Lord has given us for the river communities.  We had over 150 pastors sign up from 40 different regions, asking us to come and teach the inductive Bible study method, identity in Christ and teach through 1 Timothy.  Very overwhelming and we know to temper expectations, but praise God, it’s a start.

     During the conference week we went to a local store to do some shopping.  We ran into an American missionary who started sharing with us about his ministry and the 9 years he has been serving in Iquitos.  His ministry is feeding kids from the local river communities.  After talking with him, we were invited to go with a group of Peruvian missionaries to Colombia and Brazil to teach the word in some indigenous areas.  It would be a ten day trip and their pastor was sick with dengue fever, so they needed someone to teach.  On the spot we committed and the next day at the end of the conference we were on our way with a group of strangers to some foreign countries to share God’s word, exciting!

     On our way up river on an 18 hour ferry ride, we met Cam Anderson whose parents had recently finished translating the Ticuna Bible after 70 years. He shared it with us and we were able to share with the pastors we ministered to in the river communities. It was a great blessing because the pastors only had the complete New Testament. Talk about God’s providence. We also met a tourist from France who was atheist and Ryan was able to share the gospel with him. Praise God for opportunities to share the love of Christ! 

     Our first stop was in Brazil where we took a small boat, a “peke peke”, about an hour down a small tributary to a village that was called “Tierra de Paz”. It was a small village of indigenous people who are called the Ticunas. They have their own tribal language but some spoke Portuguese as well. After spending 2 days in that area we went to another place called Philadelphia, this was another small town of Ticunas as well. We had a conference, were able to teach on multiple occasions, and did some programs for the kids. It was probably the toughest 10 days of our lives, everything in the jungle wants to eat you.  

We returned to Iquitos and have made many great contacts.  Pastor Manaces and Pastor Julio have been a great blessing.  We are currently scheduled to start the inductive Bible study training with 2 separate groups of 15 pastors and leaders.  We are starting on May 5th and are hoping by then we will have more pastors scheduled as well.  We are going to be teaching at a couple churches this week and sharing on a local radio station. I don’t know how the Lord does it, but He does. We have started a website called “Rios de Refugio”, “Rivers of Refuge”.  You can check out some of the pictures and stories we will be posting in the future. It is new, so there is not much there yet, but it will be a place you can stay updated throughout the month.  

Please pray for:

1. Future purchase of property. We would like to purchase a small piece of ground to start a base for a school of ministry and for missionaries who would come down to minister.
2. A vehicle for ministry.  A ministry truck will probably be in our future, as well as a boat.
3. Missionaries who would like to come down and help in the labor.
4. For the Lord to magnify himself through the ministry and teaching of His word.

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Hey friends and family in Christ, we wanted to share a quick update about our whereabouts and goings on.  As you know we are waiting to leave from the states to Peru on March 16th.  So in the meantime we have been visiting different churches and our family as well.  

      We were blessed to be able to share at Calvary Chapel Rosedale in Bakersfield and got to catch up with my good friend Pastor Gil Garcia.  What a sweet fellowship and neat work the Lord is doing there.  Jaime Jimenez and his family always house us and definitely have the gift of hospitality.  From Bakersfield we flew up to our home church in Idaho, Calvary Chapel Hagerman.  Pastor Dion Douville and His wife Cindy have been such a great support for us over the years as well as many of our friends who are in fellowship there.  We love our church family and it was a great time to catch up.  

     We are currently in Folsom, California, visiting my brother and his family.  This Sunday we will be in L.A at Calvary Chapel Burbank sharing about our vision for ministry in Peru, as well as on the Amazon river as we prepare to disciple pastors and leaders.  We are so excited for this next step we are taking and we know the Lord has gone before us and is preparing the way.  Deut 1:29-31

Thank you so much for praying with us and supporting us through this venture of faith!

Ryan and Karen Gause

Hola familia, hope this update finds you well and seeking the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind and strength.  Our family has been blessed to be serving here in Mexico for the last 11 years.  The last 8 of those years we have enjoyed fellowship with our brothers and sisters here at Calvary Chapel Playas de Tijuana.  We have been blessed to see people come to Christ, transformed by Grace and walking in the Spirit. 

With all of that said, it breaks my heart, and warms my soul, to inform you that we have been called to go and train up pastors and leaders in Peru.  We are heading to the Amazon Basin.

Yes you heard that right, on March 16th we will be moving to Iquitos, Peru.   We have had Iquitos on our radar for about 2 years now and after going to visit, we realized why.  There is a great need for discipleship and training in the city and throughout the tributaries of the Amazon river. The city of Iquitos has a population of 500,000 people and it is the largest city in the world that cant be accessed by road.  It is also a point of access to a vast system of rivers on the mighty Amazon. This is where great opportunities await.

During our trip to Iquitos we were blessed to connect with a couple of pastors from Iquitos, Pastor Julio and Pastor Manaces.  As we spent time with them we began to share our vision for discipleship and training, of course this is their heart for the people as well.  One of the pastors said he had been praying for over 30 years for missionaries to come and disciple the tribal communities along the river. There has been a lot of evangelism along the river communities but it is difficult for people to stay and disciple the new believers. It is our heart to start a “School of Ministry” to train up local pastors and leaders so they can go back to their communities and disciple the people in their communities. During our time in the Peruvian Amazon we were able to meet local pastors and find out the needs of the people. The Lord has some wonderful servants doing the work of ministry!

Please pray for us as we will have the opportunity to share at a Calvary Conference in Iquitos.  The conference will be March 20-22.  We will be sharing about the School of Ministry and the classes that we will be giving.  We are hoping that God will open the hearts of the locals to be trained and strengthened in their faith. 

We are so thankful for your prayers and support. You are a blessing to us and to so many people. If you would like to partner with us financially click the link https://sgwm.com/gause/give/, or mail a check made out to SGWM with “Ryan Gause” in the memo line to 17451 Bastanchury Rd, Ste 203, Yorba Linda, CA, 92886.