PERU, 2010 - Trujillo

Map

Here is a link to a good map showing some of the places you will find mentioned in the coming blog: www.minelinks.com/peru/maps.html more >>

1 - Programa incial - Initial plans.

N.B Hay ciertos cambios al programa que colgaremos el lunes. There are certain changes to the program which will be posted on Monday. more >>

Up and away to the "New" World! - 15 de enero de 2010

How I will miss a familiar computer in these next weeks. So I will write this before going to the airport. Thanks to all who have assured us of their prayers, by ´phone, email and Facebook, as I journey. Getting two folding sketch-boards, power paints, Evangelicubes, books (and even a few clothes!) into my luggage allowance of 46 kilos has been a challenge. more >>

Installed in the prophets chamber - Llegada

Yes, the flight was 12 hours long and there was a lengthy wait to reclaim luggage in Lima. Marta' s Mum had come to escort me to their house and fortunately the flight the next day up to Trujillo was not so early so I had plenty of time to reduce luggage weight to what I needed on my trip north. I was received at Trujillo airport by Luis Mosteceiro and Ruben Quispe and taken to the house of the Twinems from Canada. Their large house has a prophets chamber on the roof exposed to the coastal breezes. more >>
La aspiración mas grande - the greatest objective

Another hot morning with my classes at 8am and 12 noon. Still giving out some of the books which weighed down my luggage from Spain, as many of the workers have come to participate in the course. But have also received a couple of small booklets published here. Among them the story of Bert and Norma Elliot written to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary and service for the Lord in Peru. At one point in the book in an interview they are asked "What has been the aspiration which you wanted to see carried out and did not manage? more >>
Better the corner of a housetop...

Will make the most of a computer connection this week from a private house rather than the caprices of how public cyber salons work in Peru. Among my generous hosts are Lucho and Anne Laure Mostecero who having attended to the needs of visiting relatives now want me as their guest for a few nights before I move on from Trujillo early next Tuesday morning. I am minded of what the Lord taught his disciples about taking up hospitality on itinerant ministry. "Don't house hop". more >>
"Vamos a los lugares vecinos..." Let's visit other places

In between morning classes this morning I was met by a delegation from Ucupe, a township on the road between Chepen and Chiclayo in the north. They were headed by Juan Rabanal, the church leader who is also school master to the sugar cane town. "We came to see when you were going to visit us this time". And there was I thinking that I had the programme more or less sown up in Peru with more than enough to do. more >>
Graduation Day Trujillo

The Training Course run in Trujillo has its final day today, after which the students who have come in from the provinces will start their journeys home. Fortunately the national transport strike which provoked some stoning of buses earlier in the week appears to be on the way to a negotiated end. My own class were evidently tired after long night sessions to get written work and revision done last night. The centre' s library looked as if a bomb had hit it this morning. more >>
Between the desert and the deep blue sea - Entre océano y desierto

This morning I changed house top for the last three days of my stay in Trujillo. From Lucho and Anne Laure´ s house top I can see through the mist on the one side the shimmering desert foothills around the base of which is sand and closer towards Trujillo the fingers of green of irrigated fields. In the other direction ocean going ships follow the Pacific coast. And through the heat haze the sun breaks from time to time. Last night´s graduation of the training course saw over 40 people, mainly young, finish their course in high excitement. More significantly for the longer term future of these courses, the leadership was formally handed on from Rubén Quispe to younger national coworkers. It was a privilege to publicly commit this step into our Lord´s hands in prayer. As Rubén gives himself to more itinerant ministry, please pray also for the deepening of spiritual life among the churches. I hope to spend time with Rubén and Marlene early this evening. This quietly efficient brother has carried a tremendous load for the benefit of the work during years. May my graciousness grow by contact! more >>
Entre el sol y la luna - Between sun and moon

La frecuencia de mis predicaciones se ha acelerado este fin de semana pasado. El sábado por la noche tuve la oportunidad de estar con los jóvenes del Centro Bíblico Trujillo y luego tuve toda la congregación delante el domingo por la mañana, unas 300 personas. Después de las fiestas para celebrar el cumpleaños de Timoteo Mostecero en la piscina cercana por la noche salí a Wenchasao. En este distrito se levanta un nuevo local de reuniones. A la luz de unas luces predique a unas congregación de 14 personas mirando arriba a las estrellas. Ahora, desde el terremoto de Ica hace dos años y medio, se decreta que todos los edificios deben construirse de material noble, no de adobe. La semana que viene empieza a montar las maderas para poner el piso de la primera planta. No tendré en otra visita la oportunidad de predicar bajo las estrellas. Pero qué privilegio en dos fines de semana seguidos predicar en dos locales nuevos que se levantar como evidencia del avance del testimonio en diferentes lugares. more >>