Today we visited a community called La Florida in the district of San Juan de Lurigancho. San Juan de Lurigancho has more than one million residents, but we went to the fringes of the district, where communities exist on the side of the foothills. This is part of the north cone, but I will be helping out with a mission team that will come at the end of this month.
The team will be 6 pastors that want to do door-to-door evangelism and nightly preaching during the week. We will be working to support a church that was planted a couple of years ago by an IMB missionary. The missionary was reassigned and the church has struggled from lack of strong local leadership. So now another a fellow IMB missionary has taken over the north cone and will be working with the local laypastor that has been trying to keep the church going, pastor Raul. Here are some pics of the church. I am really excited to hopefully be able to see God build the church back to a thriving ministry and the area reached.
2 comments:
Wow, the sheer population numbers of your target area are staggering! I feel that way about where Susanne is, too. I think I told you that it reminds me of the story of the little boy walking along a beach where thousands of starfish had washed up. He was walking along picking them up and throwing them back into the ocean one by one. A man watching him told him he couldn't possibly throw them all back, that what he was doing wasn't going to make much difference. The little boy looked at the starfish in his hand for a moment and then threw it back into the ocean, remarking to the man, "It made a difference to that one!" So, too, you cannot possibly reach all of the millions of needy ones you see around you, but you can befriend some and share with some and preach to some, and it will make a difference to them! May God strengthen you and encourage you and enable you, and may those Spanish sermons just flow from your mouth to His glory!
Jeanne
I am simply overwhelmed at the task ahead of you by looking at these photos. I cannot imagine what is like to see this in person. What a truly God-sized task! How awesome to be a part of His work there. I look so forward to watching Him work there, beginning in this humble church to reach this mass of people. For this you were called, have answered, have gone, and are equipped. Vya con Dios! (spelling?)
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