Peru Trip 2011
This post was one I started a couple years ago, after my trip to
Peru....I found it in my drafts. Obviously I never finished, but I figured I would at least post
the part I did get written!
It has taken far too long for me to get around to doing this, but I wanted to type up a summary of my time in Peru for you all, so that you will better understand what your money (for those who helped to fund me) went to support.
Our mission team departed from Westminster Presbyterian Church on July 15th. We drove to the Charlotte International Airport and after over an hour long delay, we finally boarded our flight from there to Miami International Airport. We arrived in Miami just as our flight from there was scheduled to leave for Lima, Peru! You can imagine our concern that we might miss our flight! We RAN through the airport at top speed, and eventually we were able to catch a ride on those cool little motorized carts. They sped us to our gate, and it sure beat running through a huge airport dragging around a bunch of heavy bags. Thankfully, the plane waited for our group to board the plane and we made it safely to Lima, Peru with no further trouble. In Lima we rested a bit, and had a devotional time before going to catch our bus to Huaraz, where the mission center is located. The bus ride was 8 hours long, and we arrived in the middle of the night; needless to say, we were happy to finally get off in Huaraz, meet the missionary family(the Rockwells) and fall into our beds at the mission center!
Our first day in Huaraz was a Sunday, so we had the opportunity to attend a small church service that was held in someone's home. Although it was all in Spanish, I was able to sing along with the hymns(I knew the English versions of some of them), and a man on our mission team was actually from Cuba, and is a missionary to other Spanish-speaking countries, so he interpreted some of the sermon for us, as did the Rockwells. The rest of the day we got to rest from our traveling and got to know the Rockwell family better. Mr. Larry Rockwell and his wife Sandy have two daughters, Lynae(18), and Mackenzie(14); and one son, Jonathan(6). They adopted Jonathan after moving to Peru; as an infant he was found abandoned in a field in a village, where he'd been left for several days before someone told the Rockwells about him. They took him in immediately and he's a funny, very talkative little boy now.
Monday was our first day in the village, where we continued to work all week doing a sort of VBS/ Sunday school type thing with the Quechua children and adults of the village.
That's all folks. It was a great, God-glorifying trip, and if given the opportunity I would do it all over again!! :)
It has taken far too long for me to get around to doing this, but I wanted to type up a summary of my time in Peru for you all, so that you will better understand what your money (for those who helped to fund me) went to support.
Our mission team departed from Westminster Presbyterian Church on July 15th. We drove to the Charlotte International Airport and after over an hour long delay, we finally boarded our flight from there to Miami International Airport. We arrived in Miami just as our flight from there was scheduled to leave for Lima, Peru! You can imagine our concern that we might miss our flight! We RAN through the airport at top speed, and eventually we were able to catch a ride on those cool little motorized carts. They sped us to our gate, and it sure beat running through a huge airport dragging around a bunch of heavy bags. Thankfully, the plane waited for our group to board the plane and we made it safely to Lima, Peru with no further trouble. In Lima we rested a bit, and had a devotional time before going to catch our bus to Huaraz, where the mission center is located. The bus ride was 8 hours long, and we arrived in the middle of the night; needless to say, we were happy to finally get off in Huaraz, meet the missionary family(the Rockwells) and fall into our beds at the mission center!
Our first day in Huaraz was a Sunday, so we had the opportunity to attend a small church service that was held in someone's home. Although it was all in Spanish, I was able to sing along with the hymns(I knew the English versions of some of them), and a man on our mission team was actually from Cuba, and is a missionary to other Spanish-speaking countries, so he interpreted some of the sermon for us, as did the Rockwells. The rest of the day we got to rest from our traveling and got to know the Rockwell family better. Mr. Larry Rockwell and his wife Sandy have two daughters, Lynae(18), and Mackenzie(14); and one son, Jonathan(6). They adopted Jonathan after moving to Peru; as an infant he was found abandoned in a field in a village, where he'd been left for several days before someone told the Rockwells about him. They took him in immediately and he's a funny, very talkative little boy now.
Monday was our first day in the village, where we continued to work all week doing a sort of VBS/ Sunday school type thing with the Quechua children and adults of the village.
That's all folks. It was a great, God-glorifying trip, and if given the opportunity I would do it all over again!! :)
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