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’
