The bus we took from the border to a town near the border of Peru and Ecuador. We were waiting at this next city to catch our bus to Trujillo, where our contacts would pick us up.
This was the dinner table. We were with another team this last month. They were so much fun!!!
The view from the front of the church looking down the street.
The church we were working with. We mainly did door to door evangelism with them. We also would go around and invite kids and youth to come to special services for them at the church. The left hand side is translated: “Christ Saves, Heals, Sanctifies, and is Coming Again.”
I guess I’ll now tell you a little bit about Laredo. The city was built around a sugar factory. There were two partners in the beginning and they both owned the town, it was split in half. There was a German and a Peruvian. The Peruvian, at some point, sold his soul to the devil and his half of the town in exchange for riches. The German then left Peru and sold all of his half to the Peruvian. The Peruvian later died, but they could never find his body, as if satan had come to collect. This makes so much sense, because there was such a dark presence on this town when we got there, but we shook things up 🙂 We worshipped in the park a lot, and not just any park, the main square of town. We talked to random people and by the end of the month, there was definitely a difference in this town. It was so heavy spiritually, thank goodness there was two teams here. I don’t know if one team would have been able to withstand it.
Just some of the view
More view
This was one of the places that we did something like a backyard VBS with some kids in one of the poor areas in town.
Ginny holding a little girl who was fast asleep
This was the other place that we did the same thing at. More backyard VBS in a different poor part of town.
This was how I took a shower and flushed the toilet. I took a shower using the red pitcher in the 5 gallon bucket and flushed the toilet by taking the little white bucket on the right and pouring about a full bucket into the toilet bowl.
This was the market in Laredo
Just another shot of Laredo. All those vehicles are motortaxis which were simply a cart that was attached to a motorcycle and covered.
That was life in Peru!
PS: I thought I had a picture of the room Joshua and I stayed in, but I guess I don’t. I was a tiny thing that had a bed and a mattress on the floor right beside it. Let your imagination go with that!
