Pictures from Peru

Wednesday morning we took a tour of San Genaro, the neighborhood of our sister church El Buen Pastor, whose members host the Peru Christmas Store. All of the children served at the Peru Christmas Store live in this neighborhood, a very poor area on the Pacific coast. In the purple shirt is Lou Conde-Sandoval, our Peruvian host. He and Janis co-founded the ministry Common Hope, which ministers to the children from the Peru Christmas Store throughout the year. The other man is Pablo, our translator on Wednesday.

 

Our group at the home of missionaries Javier and Patricia Ibañez, with their son Nathaniel

Patricia cooked us a delicious typical Peruvian meal: chicken and rice, potatoes with cream sauce, and Inka Kola

Kathy shared a testimony at their Wednesday evening prayer service, and Patricia translated

 On Thursday we visited missionaries Katty and Juvenal Bejar, who brought us to a very poor area of Lima called Jicamarca, where they have planted a church. Teresa and Betsy taught public school children proper dental hygiene and we gave them each a toothbrush.

The local Head Start program in Orange where Betsy works let us borrow their model teeth and gigantic toothbrush.

After the toothbrushing demonstration in each classroom, Kathy, Donna and the girls from El Buen Pastor shared their testimony.

After that, we brought the school children to the church and fed them lunch. This is Katty, our VRBC-supported missionary, in the foreground. After that we spoke with a group of parents about the challenges of parenting teenagers, and then Amy led a women´s Bible study at the church.

Next on our agenda is the Christmas Store. Stay posted for more pictures!!!