Peru: Day 1

Greetings from Peru! God blessed us with a mostly uneventful trip both to Miami and Lima as well as with a very swift baggage claim in Lima... praise God!  We came with 8 duffel bags full of gifts for the locals and supplies for ministry and all 8 were already waiting for us when we made it to baggage claim. Some members of the church were waiting to welcome us when we arrived in Lima - with handmade signs and all - and the excitement on their faces was precious. 

After a night's rest in our beautiful guest house, we hit the town for some breakfast at a local McDonald's and then some grocery shopping at Lima's, equivalent to WalMart, which is known as Wong's.  God showed His provisions, yet again, during that outing as we were blessed by an English-speaking local in front of us in line at McDonald's who helped us make our orders.

The church sent a van to pick us up from the guest house at 3:00 and took us to the church for a night of games and bible study with the children and youth.  There were about 30 children in all and we were able to give each one of them a “Game On” t-shirt from this year's VBS, which they all loved.  The youth had a much lower turnout but that ended up making things more intimate which I think we all enjoyed.  Then three teenage boys all prayed to receive Jesus as their Savior that night thanks to the counsel and coaching of Chris and Dick and their interpreter Eloy.