Monday May 29, 2006
We were very busy on our last couple of days in Peru. We had a wall to finish, plans for upcoming trips to make, rooms to paint and supplies to purchase. We needed the Lord's help to finish our projects, and He showed up in a BIG way.
Friday was spent finishing our work projects at Hogar Di Nino's (HDN) and Hannah's Home (HH). Wilmer, Jose', Jimmy and John David (a "graduated" HDN child!) helped us to lay the block and to stucco the walls. Without the help of those four local men we could not have finished our project. Wilmer and Jose' are from Pastor Moises' church in Villa El Salvador (Shalom Community Church), and Jimmy and John David are local. John David is 17 years old and was a child in HDN when CRM first came to Chilca. He is now working for a police commander and came to see us and help us at HH. It was wonderful to see he is doing well.
Angie, Heather, Candy and Cindy were my heroes all week. Whenever we needed anything done, or didn't have a plan for a project, we would ask them to help. And everytime they did. No complaints, just love and service. They painted, cleaned, re-painted, re-cleaned, designed, moved, re-designed, re-moved, made lunch for us every day, moved again... you get the picture. Always with a smile on their faces and skip in their step. Cindy took the initiative to make a badly needed list of tools we left at HH, and our next work trip in August will be more productive because of that. Candy, Angie and Heather designed and painted a sign for Hannah's Home. You can see it by clicking on the Flickr badge to the right. On Friday they also cleaned the HDN tool storage room (no small feat), painted the wall around the HDN playground and still found time to love on the kids and neighbors.
At 3:00 we loaded the bus and took all who wanted to go for ice cream. What an adventure! We got to see a Peruvian road crew, Peruvian construction cones (rocks), and Bocerone (big mouth). Bocerone is one of the most beautiful spots I've seen, and its right next to shop that serves ice cream! There's pictures of that on Flickr too.
Back to Chilca and we finished up. Pictures were taken, addresses exchanged, hugs and kisses given and "Chaio" was said, but no "Good bye". We know we'll see each other again... in Chilca or in Heaven it won't matter. They speak spanish in both places.
On Saturday we check out of Ola Grande and went to Lima. We toured Salamanca, a holding facility for children and adolescents found on the streets or in trouble. There were 74 kids there, three of them teen age girls who were pregnant. There was also several babies, one only two months old names Ama.
After lunch at Canastas we toured the square (Presidential Palace, Lima city hall and a huge Cathederal), the coast, and a cross made from communication towers that were destroyed by terrorists in the 1990's, and then to Tony Roma's in Larco Mar for our last meal in Peru. Then off to the Jorge Chavez Aeropuerto in Lima(Special thanks to the team for their patience as their rookie leader paid the exit tax).
Our plane was on time (11:05 p.m.), our flight home uneventful and we landed at Newark as planned (7:55 a.m.). There we split up for the first time in a week. The Rivertree group's plane left at 10:10 a.m. and Living Stones at 12:25 p.m.
I cannot wait to tell you about the profound ways God moved in our Preu trip. I'll update a story each day this week, so come back. A new day has dawned on our jouney.
Friday was spent finishing our work projects at Hogar Di Nino's (HDN) and Hannah's Home (HH). Wilmer, Jose', Jimmy and John David (a "graduated" HDN child!) helped us to lay the block and to stucco the walls. Without the help of those four local men we could not have finished our project. Wilmer and Jose' are from Pastor Moises' church in Villa El Salvador (Shalom Community Church), and Jimmy and John David are local. John David is 17 years old and was a child in HDN when CRM first came to Chilca. He is now working for a police commander and came to see us and help us at HH. It was wonderful to see he is doing well.
Angie, Heather, Candy and Cindy were my heroes all week. Whenever we needed anything done, or didn't have a plan for a project, we would ask them to help. And everytime they did. No complaints, just love and service. They painted, cleaned, re-painted, re-cleaned, designed, moved, re-designed, re-moved, made lunch for us every day, moved again... you get the picture. Always with a smile on their faces and skip in their step. Cindy took the initiative to make a badly needed list of tools we left at HH, and our next work trip in August will be more productive because of that. Candy, Angie and Heather designed and painted a sign for Hannah's Home. You can see it by clicking on the Flickr badge to the right. On Friday they also cleaned the HDN tool storage room (no small feat), painted the wall around the HDN playground and still found time to love on the kids and neighbors.
At 3:00 we loaded the bus and took all who wanted to go for ice cream. What an adventure! We got to see a Peruvian road crew, Peruvian construction cones (rocks), and Bocerone (big mouth). Bocerone is one of the most beautiful spots I've seen, and its right next to shop that serves ice cream! There's pictures of that on Flickr too.
Back to Chilca and we finished up. Pictures were taken, addresses exchanged, hugs and kisses given and "Chaio" was said, but no "Good bye". We know we'll see each other again... in Chilca or in Heaven it won't matter. They speak spanish in both places.
On Saturday we check out of Ola Grande and went to Lima. We toured Salamanca, a holding facility for children and adolescents found on the streets or in trouble. There were 74 kids there, three of them teen age girls who were pregnant. There was also several babies, one only two months old names Ama.
After lunch at Canastas we toured the square (Presidential Palace, Lima city hall and a huge Cathederal), the coast, and a cross made from communication towers that were destroyed by terrorists in the 1990's, and then to Tony Roma's in Larco Mar for our last meal in Peru. Then off to the Jorge Chavez Aeropuerto in Lima(Special thanks to the team for their patience as their rookie leader paid the exit tax).
Our plane was on time (11:05 p.m.), our flight home uneventful and we landed at Newark as planned (7:55 a.m.). There we split up for the first time in a week. The Rivertree group's plane left at 10:10 a.m. and Living Stones at 12:25 p.m.
I cannot wait to tell you about the profound ways God moved in our Preu trip. I'll update a story each day this week, so come back. A new day has dawned on our jouney.
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