Hola, and greetings from Trujillo, Peru. Here´s an update of what we´ve been doing this month in Peru. My team, Grace Under Fire, spent the first two weeks in Chepen, Peru. Chepen was honestly one of the 
strangest cities I¨ve ever been. It´s like a midget city – the buildings are very short but the sidewalks are very big and shiny, and everyone drives something called a moto, a motorcycle/carriage hybrid. We worked with the Christian Missionary Aliance Church. We stayed at the house of an elderly lady who attended the church named Lydia. She was an absolute blessing and loved on us so well during our time with her. She bought us several mangos and they became a quick favorite among everyone on my team. So the first week in Chepen we helped out with sanding, scraping, and painting an upstairs portion of the church that will be used for children´s ministry. This construction work 
was the first half of the day. We´d have lunch, then have some down time, and then return to the church to either attend bible studies with different contacts and church members, or help out with youth group. My team learned the Lifehouse Everything skit by watching it online. If you´ve never seen it, please, right now, youtube Lifehouse Everything Skit and you will be blown away. I got to play Jesus/God and it was a very powerful experience performing it for young people at a special night at the church for teenagers. The second week there we helped run a 4 day bible school for children, like Vacation Bible School in the states. We met several new women from the church who helped out, and we got to memorize several short dances to lead the children with during praise and worship. Very fun stuff!! After the second week, our team traveled to Trujillo to meet up with two other teams. We´re staying at an orphange that is going to open sometime in April. I joined in working in a cornfield for three days, tilling soil with a shovel for
better irrigation and to mix in fertilizer. Others have spent their time painting and making bricks. Our time here has been totally salted with courage and stepping out and challenging one another with the words God gives us to share, even when they´re difficult to say and hear. Today, we are going to work at a daycare for the afternoon and tonight I will be joining 3 other people to work the night shift at the local garbage dump from 6pm to 6am. There will be two more teams of 4 that do the same thing the next two nights. I´m certainly curious about this, and I don´t expect it will be easy, but I know the Lord will teach me so much in living life like the locals do as we take on a 12 hour shift at the garbage dump together.
strangest cities I¨ve ever been. It´s like a midget city – the buildings are very short but the sidewalks are very big and shiny, and everyone drives something called a moto, a motorcycle/carriage hybrid. We worked with the Christian Missionary Aliance Church. We stayed at the house of an elderly lady who attended the church named Lydia. She was an absolute blessing and loved on us so well during our time with her. She bought us several mangos and they became a quick favorite among everyone on my team. So the first week in Chepen we helped out with sanding, scraping, and painting an upstairs portion of the church that will be used for children´s ministry. This construction work was the first half of the day. We´d have lunch, then have some down time, and then return to the church to either attend bible studies with different contacts and church members, or help out with youth group. My team learned the Lifehouse Everything skit by watching it online. If you´ve never seen it, please, right now, youtube Lifehouse Everything Skit and you will be blown away. I got to play Jesus/God and it was a very powerful experience performing it for young people at a special night at the church for teenagers. The second week there we helped run a 4 day bible school for children, like Vacation Bible School in the states. We met several new women from the church who helped out, and we got to memorize several short dances to lead the children with during praise and worship. Very fun stuff!! After the second week, our team traveled to Trujillo to meet up with two other teams. We´re staying at an orphange that is going to open sometime in April. I joined in working in a cornfield for three days, tilling soil with a shovel for better irrigation and to mix in fertilizer. Others have spent their time painting and making bricks. Our time here has been totally salted with courage and stepping out and challenging one another with the words God gives us to share, even when they´re difficult to say and hear. Today, we are going to work at a daycare for the afternoon and tonight I will be joining 3 other people to work the night shift at the local garbage dump from 6pm to 6am. There will be two more teams of 4 that do the same thing the next two nights. I´m certainly curious about this, and I don´t expect it will be easy, but I know the Lord will teach me so much in living life like the locals do as we take on a 12 hour shift at the garbage dump together.
