Saturday, June 18, 2011

Claiming Victory in South Peru

I'm sitting here at Villa Milagro while the rest of the team takes a nap from flying in early this morning. I got here yesterday afternoon after spending a week in South Peru.

Kelly Tucker and I flew to Lima and met a group of eight from Texas that is very interested in working with the villages in Southern Peru.

We drove to Huaytara and stayed there overnight last Saturday. We got up on Sunday morning and after a flat tire on one of the three trucks, we made it to Ayavi. That night we went to a home church service there. There were about 10 Peruvians at that service. It was really neat to get to watch and hear them worship the same God that I worship.

Monday we went and talked to some of the high school kids in the school. We spent lots of time with the younger kids because they were out of school. We played soccer and volleyball with them as well as painting fingernails and making bracelets and necklaces. We also gave out reading and sun glasses in the square. That night we had a Bible study that started out just with us, but then in the middle of it the high school principal and one of the high school teachers joined us. We talked about peace with them and how the only was to have true peace is in God. He is the only one who can give us peace in the middle of any kind of storm. They both asked great questions and we were able to share with them what we believe.

We got up on Tuesday and drove to Tambo. The first thing we did was meet with the Pastor of the home church there. We talked to him and arranged to have a church service that night even though he wouldn't be able to be there. His wife was going to lead the church that night. While we were there we made necklaces and sun catchers with all of the children and many of the adults in the town. They loved doing this and swarmed us as soon as we pulled all of this out of the back of the truck. After we ran out of supplies, we walked up the the top of the hill and met with the Principal of the school there. She is a very sweet, christian lady. We talked to her for a while and invited her to the church service that night. After dinner, we went to the pastors house for church. There were probably 28 or so Peruvians at the service that night. After the pastor's wife talked and lead worship, Kelly talked to the people about security and that our security is in God and not in anything of this world. After Kelly talked, they wanted us to sing in English for them. We sang Days of Elijah and they loved it so much that they wanted to sing it in Spanish. One of the translators told them the words in Spanish. We then sang it in English while they sang it in Spanish. That was one of the best moments of the entire trip. Being able to worship the same God in two different languages was the coolest things ever.

On Wednesday we were back in Ayavi. We spent some more time with the little kids because they still weren't back in school. We spent the afternoon with the seniors in the school. We told the stories of the crucifixion and the resurrection of Christ. We then had a little presentation for each of them. We gave them a necklace, lip balm, candy, and a Bible. The girls had a necklace with a cross on it so that they can always remember that the cross is their guide. The one boy in the class got a shield to remind him that Jesus is his shield. It was really cool to give these things to them and know that we have at least planted a seed for each of them just because of a simple necklace. That night Kelly cooked chicken spaghetti for the whole town. We had more people come this year than Kelly had ever seen come before. After dinner was over, we all went over to the church. Instead of them talking this time, we told the crucifixion and resurrection story again. We asked if anyone would like to accept Jesus and lead in a sinners prayer so that if they wanted, they could pray that and accept Jesus. Even though no one said anything, I'm sure that there was someone out of about 40 of them that was impacted somehow.

We were able to see a lot of growth in both Ayavi and Tambo this year. Please continue to pray for these villages and the ones around them. We want these villages to be able to claim victory in Christ.

Please keep the team that is here in Cajamarca this week in your prayers as well as the team that will be here next week.

-Christina Davis

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