Peru Day 2 Sunday

We woke up and I went next door to Pastor Arturo's house. He is the head pastor at Cristo Vive church in Bocanegra. He compared our trip to Abraham's journey. He said we really are acting on faith with this trip. It's true we really didn't know what to expect. He said we definitely will grow and learn during our stay in Peru. I can tell Arturo has a great passion.

Pictured is Miguel (with the red shirt on the left) with the deaf group at the church. Miguel heads up the deaf ministry, works with the vacation bible school and leads the worship. We met some missionaries from the jungle. One of the missionaries has started up 3 churches. His village is called Canaan and has about 1,000 people living in it.

We met all the kids and the deaf group at church. They came up with nicknames for all of us. Mine had to do with my sideburns. We played volleyball with people in the park. It was Miguel, a local kid and the Americans vs. the local people. We got beat pretty bad. They were really good though. It was fun. We also played with the kids. The language barrier was tough to overcome, but we had 2 translators: Alex and Daniel. The kids are into Mucho Libre which I guess is pro wrestling in Peru. They showed me some moves.

We then went to the church. The deaf group did a short play for us. It was very moving. Then Leon shared his testimony and he really did a great job. Then when I got back to Israel's house I showed him pictures of Minneapolis and my family. I gave him a Twin Cities calendar. I don't know much Spanish and he doesn't know much English, yet we knew enough to communicate a little. He had an illustrated book with English and Spanish terms. That helped a lot. We walked around the neighborhood a little and then I went to bed.

This is Israel and me.