if you missed the 2009 video yearbook premiere, you may have missed out seeing the 2 videos featuring the Acacia group. We’re going to post them here today & tomorrow. This first piece (called that, because it is a piece of art) was done by Meshell and looks back at the work we did last summer in Lima, Peru. Meshell is now working towards a film degree @ the University of New Mexico, so we hope this is just a preview of great work she will do in the future!
Posts Tagged 'lima'
en lima 2009
Published 03/01/2010 Artistic , Peru Leave a CommentTags: lima, meshell mendiola, Peru, WBCC Youth Video
Peru Christmas Part 3: Possible For All of Us
Published 12/18/2009 Advent & Christmas , Peru Leave a CommentTags: christmas gifts, El Shaddai, katie cooper, lima, service
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.
POSSIBLE FOR ALL OF US Katie Cooper
I don’t think I knew what Peru would become in my life the first time that I went. I knew that I would enjoy it since I had done similar trips with the church in Mexico, but it has taken on a role in my life that I may not have anticipated early on. Now that’s not to say that every time I’m there I’m totally comfortable and at ease, or that I love every minute, because I don’t think that is it at all. But I fit in some way. I’m not always totally comfortable in my life here at home either, nor do I love every minute, but I have a role and a place here. There are obvious differences between the two, since my roots here have developed with friends and family for the twenty-four years of my life. Still I can’t help but feel that the bond that continues to grow with our friends at El Shaddai, this relationship we have worked for, hasn’t happened by accident. That even though I didn’t know what Peru would become, God obviously did. He must have had a plan for it. And for the record, Continue reading ‘Peru Christmas Part 3: Possible For All of Us’
Peru Christmas Part 2: Finding Love in Lima
Published 12/16/2009 Advent & Christmas , Peru Leave a CommentTags: advent, lima, love, love definitions, shaya lawrence, Shema
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’
Peru Christmas Part 1: The Measure of Beauty
Published 12/15/2009 Advent & Christmas , Peru Leave a CommentTags: cassie nason, El Shaddai, lima, mother teresa, pachacutec, Peru
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.
THE MEASURE OF BEAUTY Cassie Nason
A dozen smiling Peruvian faces greeted us in the airport terminal in Lima…at 1 a.m. I was the only member of our group who had not been to Peru before, and therefore hadn’t experienced the midnight greeting from Pastor Elsa and her varied crew of neighborhood kids and family. It was also these smiling faces that were my last memory of Lima after our three-day whirlwind tour. And I think there is only one word for these people I met there. Beautiful.
Before I was able to absorb the beauty of the people I met in Peru, it’s important to relay to you my first impressions. First of all, Continue reading ‘Peru Christmas Part 1: The Measure of Beauty’
Peru Christmas '09 $ Total & Plans
Published 11/30/2009 Peru Leave a CommentTags: christmas, fundraiser, lima, Peru
Gift Delivery in Pachacutec '07
An update on our fundraising totals… As a young adult community, we raised over $2500! Well done everyone!! Other groups & people in the church more than matched that amount, which is really incredible! This is truly an effort that we’re all a part of… Don’t forget, this Thursday seven of us head down to Lima (Pastor Evert, Craig & Cassie, Shaya, Katie Cooper, Kelly Shaw, & Chris Loar) to complete this project. Our main goals will be 1.Purchasing gifts 2. Buying potentially 2 mototaxi’s as future sources of income for the church 3. Throwing christmas parties & giving out gifts & cards from our group in Lima & Pachacutec 4.Gifting funds to El Shaddai to finish off building work on the future drug rehab space.
We’re calling on everyone to join in committed prayer for this trip during the day on Thursday! We’ll post details on everything we did starting next Monday and through that week!
Peru Christmas Project
Published 10/15/2009 Group News , Peru Leave a CommentTags: chipotle, Chris Loar, christmas, fundraiser, lima, Peru
Chris breaks it down on our plans to bring the spirit of Christmas down to Lima, Peru early in December. We fire off seven weeks of fundraising tomorrow night with FREE BURRITOS FOR PERU!!— a Chipotle Culinary event, Details here. Meanwhile, remember we’re all planning to give $5/person/week. But that won’t get us to our $2,000 goal. Some can give more, and others outside of the group can get involved– Let’s do this together! Want to know the whole project details? Here’s Chris:
Peru '09 Details
Published 02/04/2009 Group News , Peru 1 CommentTags: arequipa, lima, Peru, root canal
If you’re interested in the details for our journey to Peru this summer— below is a quick video update. The most important news: a one day date change, we’re now leaving a day later: JUNE 27th-JULY 9th. $1400/person. Lima, Arequipa, Colca Canyon. Building, Dental Clinic, Kids in Lima, Sick Hotel in Arequipa, World’s Deepest Canyon, cheapest international trip of your life… It’s going to be outstanding. $300 deposit due March 15th.
for the widows in paradise
Published 11/21/2008 Entertain Me! , Seasonal: He Came For This 1 CommentTags: lima, mike simon, pachacutec, Peru, sufjan stevens
for our 2nd feature in the new Seasonal theme, “He Came For This”, we bring you this years brand-new Lima video, edited by Mike Simon. It’s a sweet look at our time in Peru last summer, and the kids who keep us coming back… It’s also a beautiful visual of why jesus came. Enjoy:
