Mission Peru

By Ray Majoran

Welcome to the first official Mission Peru 2012 blog post!

Over the next 10 days, I’ll be doing my best to document the work that the Lord is doing in Trujillo and Lima, Peru. As the appointed media guy on the trip, here’s what you can expect:

1. Blog Posts (Journal Entries): Each day, a different person from the Mission Peru team will be writing a blog post. So in total, you’ll see (at least) 10 blog posts over the course of our trip. (Today just happens to be my day for posting.)
2. Lots of photos.
3. Lots of videos.

If you’re on Facebook, you can also keep track of us on our Mission Peru page located here

And if you’re on Twitter, you can follow us @MissionPeru. Note that the Twitter feed is also streamed through the homepage of the Mission Peru website.

I would encourage you to write comments on the blog posts and/or our Facebook page. Each day, I will take the opportunity to read a number of them to the group during our devotional time in the morning. Note that when I’m reading the comments, I’ll often refrain from using names so that the entire team can be encouraged, instead of just one individual. If there’s something *extremely important* that you want me to specifically relay to someone here on the ground, send me a private Facebook message.

As far as “when” I’ll be posting stuff, it will vary. Based on my experience from the last trip, it will probably be either very late at night, or in the wee hours of the morning. Remember that Peru is in the Central Time Zone (CST), meaning that we are 1 hour behind EST. Most blog entries, videos and photos for the day will be posted by 2am CST / 3am EST. Therefore, I’d suggest that instead of waiting up at night hoping to see the daily updates, that you get a good night’s rest and visit the website over a cup of coffee (or two) in the morning.  The other unknown is Internet. If we go a couple of days where you haven’t seen any updates, don’t worry about it! The Internet is very touch-and-go in Peru, so “no updates” simply means “no Internet”. I will do my absolute best to try and get something new up every day (even if it’s just a message in the Twitter feed saying, “Internet sketchy. Things are going great.”)

The schedule over the next couple of days is as follows: 

• Right now, our group of 42 is hanging out at the Panama City airport. Our flight to Lima, Peru will leave in about an hour.
• Tonight we will arrive in Lima and spend the night there.
• Tomorrow (Saturday) we will tour Lima and help out with a concert. The concert will be featuring CORBAN, a South-American Christian music group featuring Elisa and Rich Brown, founders of Inca Link.
• On Saturday night, we will hop on a bus that will take us to Trujillo, our final destination for the trip. The bus ride usually takes around 8 hours.
• When we get off the bus, it will be Sunday. Since we’ll all have had a great night’s rest on the bus (sarcasm intended), we’ll hit the ground running. :)

Important Note: Jeff Enns has requested prayer for Sunday night; he has been asked to speak at a church service (in Spanish). Jeff says, “It’s not as easy or fun as it sounds.” Thank you!

The rest of the week will consist of many things like: prayer, worship, lots of construction at the children’s home, visiting people at the local garbage dump, visiting the day care (sponsored by Inca Link and Compassion), small groups, and on rare occasions, sleep.

Thanks for following along! Please continue to pray for us as God uses us for His glory.