From the very moment that the Peru team embarked on this journey, God has taken care of us. Traveling to Peru has just been awesome. God allowed for every flight arrival time to be earlier than what was planned in the flight itinerary. All 3 flight connections the team made their arrival points early! As far as the 8 hour bus ride from Lima to Huancayo, it went very smoothly. We did not have anyone get altitude sickness. One person had some motion sickness from the bus, but other than that God has been extremely gracious in keeping all team members healthy.
After having arrived in Huancayo, our first day objective was to get out to the 7 churches that have been planted here and start helping equip their team leaders for ministry. The morning was started with educating our churches in how to use evangecubes and strategies in going out to their local communities for Jesus. Many of the team members did prayer walks through the local streets. Some of the local Peruvians were outside in the streets playing volleyball and God provided an opportunity through the volleyball for some of the team members to build relationships with those people. I, Chris Brink, my first experience in the Huancayo mission trip was sharing the Gospel with a local store owner just down the block from one of the local churches. We had been waiting at Pastor Agusto’s church in the morning for Pastor Hugo, to go to Pastor Hugo’s church, and God led my translator Alfredo and I to this local store and I shared the Gospel. I shared the Gospel with the grandmother who ran the store, her daughter, and her daughter’s children. The grandmother was thankful to hear the Gospel story of Jesus Christ, which she had heard before, but she has not been to church in awhile. She is coming to a get-together that the team is holding this Thursday to hear more about Jesus Christ. In fact, she is going to close her store down early to do so!
Please keep the Peru team, the nationals, as well as translators that God has put together in your prayers as God teaches us to become fishers of men.
Chris & Nessa Brink
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