The bags are packed and our money is exchanged back to the dollar. We sit in the lobby of a hostel in Lima, listening to Caleb play some soothing songs as we wait for the taxi to arrive that will take us to the airport. Its an incredible way to end a spectacular trip where God showed up in many awesome ways. We are more than happy for our time here but we are also eager to head back to the States to share our stories and hang out with friends and family. hmm Family. Our biological families are back in the States, but we have become a family here in Peru as brothers and sisters in Christ. Its a bittersweet end, but we know that God has greater plans for us back in the States, no matter where we will be.
The name of this blog is called ´final greetings from peru´ because although we will not be in Peru after tonight, this will not be the last blog post. Throughout the past two weeks you have heard the viewpoints of only a few of us, so I want to encourage everyone who was on the trip to write a little something about their time here. Maybe what you learned, what you accomplished or the greatest thing you learned while in Peru. That´s the great thing about trips. Everybody gets something different out of it...
...we found churros in Lima...they were gooood...
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
International Stardom
Yesterday began like any other day in Matucana. Caleb, Cathleen and Caitlin left for Collana early in the morning to help spread the gospel. They are the last team that´s going up there so we hope that once they leave, Juan will be able to continue to spread the gospel and encourage people through the love of God.
The rest of the group; Matt, Indya, Andrew and Kris, went to the school again to hang out with some of the children. We attempted to go to a few homes to meet some of the people that we have meet earlier in the week but unfortunatly, none of them were home....then the search for the churro man began...
We traveled to the town San Mateo, about 30 peruvian minutes away because we were told that the churro man was working there. After a 45+ minute drive we arrived in the town right before sunset. Martin (one of the translators) took us to his friends shop to help encourage him because he was a fellow believer in Christ. After a short visit, his friend told us where the Churro man´s family worked at, so we went on our way. We went to the store and found his family there and his uncle who sadly informed us that they stopped making churros for the week because they were resting. We may have shed a tear or two. We sang him our churro song (video coming soon) and he gave us the ingredients for the churro so the trip wasn´t a complete waste. But the story doesn´t end here for God showed up in an incredible way...
To our surprise, a local news reporter was in the store as we sang the churro song to the shop owner. When we were about to leave he stopped us and asked for an interview. Naturally, we said yes and on camera he asked us questions such as why were we here and where we were from. We answered him by explaining that we were here on missionary work, sharing the love of Christ to people in Peru. We also mentioned the Church (Principe de Paz) we were with and explained that they were a Church in Matucana that anyone was welcome to come visit. So what turned out to be a fun trip to San Mateo to find the churro man turned out to be an incredible opportunity to share the love of Christ to a large portion of San Mateo through a simple news reporter. God works in incredible ways.
Sadly enough, today is our last full day in Matucana. We are sad to be leaving soon but we are happy for what God has showed each and everyone of us while we were here. We pray that God will help the Church grow and for Pastor David to remain strong despite the opposition that has come his way. Pray for us, that we will be given more opportunities to share the gospel today and for people to see the love of Christ through us as begin our last day.
The rest of the group; Matt, Indya, Andrew and Kris, went to the school again to hang out with some of the children. We attempted to go to a few homes to meet some of the people that we have meet earlier in the week but unfortunatly, none of them were home....then the search for the churro man began...
We traveled to the town San Mateo, about 30 peruvian minutes away because we were told that the churro man was working there. After a 45+ minute drive we arrived in the town right before sunset. Martin (one of the translators) took us to his friends shop to help encourage him because he was a fellow believer in Christ. After a short visit, his friend told us where the Churro man´s family worked at, so we went on our way. We went to the store and found his family there and his uncle who sadly informed us that they stopped making churros for the week because they were resting. We may have shed a tear or two. We sang him our churro song (video coming soon) and he gave us the ingredients for the churro so the trip wasn´t a complete waste. But the story doesn´t end here for God showed up in an incredible way...
To our surprise, a local news reporter was in the store as we sang the churro song to the shop owner. When we were about to leave he stopped us and asked for an interview. Naturally, we said yes and on camera he asked us questions such as why were we here and where we were from. We answered him by explaining that we were here on missionary work, sharing the love of Christ to people in Peru. We also mentioned the Church (Principe de Paz) we were with and explained that they were a Church in Matucana that anyone was welcome to come visit. So what turned out to be a fun trip to San Mateo to find the churro man turned out to be an incredible opportunity to share the love of Christ to a large portion of San Mateo through a simple news reporter. God works in incredible ways.
Sadly enough, today is our last full day in Matucana. We are sad to be leaving soon but we are happy for what God has showed each and everyone of us while we were here. We pray that God will help the Church grow and for Pastor David to remain strong despite the opposition that has come his way. Pray for us, that we will be given more opportunities to share the gospel today and for people to see the love of Christ through us as begin our last day.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Spreading God´s love in Peru
As promised, here are some pictures!
On our way to the waterfall! Our amigo, Daniel led the way for us!
Andie and Eric, our fearless guides who led us to Collana
Maura Poma, the best baker in the entire town of Collana
The class in Collana who we taught the story of Zacchaeus to
Augustine. Nuff said
Today was a day spent mostly with the children. It began with a quick visit to the school where we had fun hanging out with the kids during their recess. For some reason they really love being spun around again and again and again and again.... I´m still dizzy from it.
After the school we went back to the soccer court to teach some of these Peruvians a lesson in Soccer. Once again, we were completly schooled. We´re sure that some of these kids learned to play soccer before they learned to talk.
After playing soccer we met up with some kids at the church where we taught them American games such as Red Rover and red light/green light. We had a blast teaching the kids these games but they somehow found a way to cheat everytime we played. Kids will be kids I guess.
For dinner, we sampled a local dish known as anticucho, otherwise known as heart. Despite all odd we all really enjoyed it....the cow stomach was another story...
....We have now been without a churro sighting for a week. Dillusion has set in as we begin to smell churros wherever we go. But we do have good news! We know know where the churro guy is from. We will send a search party out in the morning...
Errbody loves to watch videos...
Here's the link to some videos we took in Matucana and Collana last week. More will follow soon!
http://vimeo.com/user10912201/videos
http://vimeo.com/user10912201/videos
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