Summer Teams

I was very excited to come to Lima and get to see how our team works with teams from the states. We have a team coming in tonight and said goodbye to a team a week ago. It's a busy time! Our team focuses all it's attention on the work with the group that is here and continues a few regularly scheduled activities. The last team came to do a VBS in our neighborhood- Salamanca. We had it in the basement of an apartment building where a family who came to Christ because of our team lives. They continue to be a huge success story of Christ's changing power. We had meetings with the men and women and kicked off the sunday school that we'll be continuing every Sunday afternoon with children. We had over 80 kids come troughout the week which will be great contacts as we continue to build more relationships in the community. It was a family team from Atlanta, Georgia- I got chill bumps when the 8 year old girl from Kennesaw shared her testimony to the Peruvian kids! The team was very generous; bringing about 8 suitcases of things to distribute to the churches and leaving all their sport equipment and art supplies they had used during the week when they left. It is really neat to be a part of God's work on both sides: to see some fruit of the team living and working here and to get excited about what He will do in the next 2-3 years. This week's team will be doing an art camp in Huaycan where our after school project takes place. The church is basically working on its own but we'll be there to translate and help direct the kids. We saw one of the moms whose children are in the project selling caramels in front of a grocery store with her youngest daughter. It brought home the reality of these families' every day life. Please pray for our team and the one that is coming to be a light and help make new strides in the community. Thanks!