All this week, we are sharing reflections & pictures from the team that just returned from Lima, Peru. Their journey was part of an effort our community made to share gifts & hope with a community we’ve worked closely with for seven years. After raising nearly $7000 between our group and others @ WBCC, we were able to buy Christmas gifts for kids in Lima, Pachacutec, and Iquitos. We also bought two brand new moto-taxis as sources of income and employment for the church and those they reach-out to. Finally, we completed funding several smaller infrastructure projects that weren’t yet finished at El Shaddai.
FINDING LOVE IN LIMA Shaya Lawrence
As I reflect on this last trip to Peru, and on the Advent season I have noticed a common theme this year for me. I realize it is an often talked about theme, however it is one that to me is the most mysterious, most difficult to truly grasp, and one in which will take the rest of my life to seek and still may never comprehend even a little of what it is. The theme is Love. I have always truly struggled with this word/feeling/action contemplating; what does it mean to Love? Continue reading ‘Peru Christmas Part 2: Finding Love in Lima’
Scot McKnight hosts the blog Jesus Creed (http://blog.beliefnet.com/jesuscreed/). He is hosting a series there titled the Acts of Advent. Here’s
Lord Jesus,
