2007

Peru Project List

Children’s Ministry

We currently minister weekly to over 1000 children in 10 locations. These ministries are called Kid’s Clubs and are intended to evangelize and disciple children. They also provide training and discipleship opportunities for the youth that work with us to conduct these Kid’s Clubs. As a secondary effect we have had some adults attending on a regular basis and a general acceptance of these ministries in the community around them. We currently have potential opportunities to open more of these ministries in other locations.

In order to continue these ministries and open new ones we need items such as Children’s Spanish Bibles, constructions paper, crayons, and similar materials. We also need financial support to purchase these types of materials, copying costs, fruit to give the children each week and to pay for ongoing costs of this ministry. We need puppets and materials to use to make puppets and puppet theaters, felt board sets, and clown costumes and make-up. The average monthly cost to maintain one Kid’s Club is approximately $100.00.

We can also use help to purchase additional sets of sound equipment. We currently have two systems that are used in six locations for Kid’s Clubs and in other special events for our youth and young adult ministries. Each set of sound equipment includes two speakers, one amplifier, two microphones, a surge protector, and the associated cables and connections. A full set costs approximately $900.00.

Typical Kid’s Club

Discipleship Ministries

We currently have a two year discipleship ministry for youth, young adults, and adults. The discipleship ministry is intended to raise-up people to be effective evangelists, discipleship leaders, and leaders of cell groups, and to prepare them to be strong future leaders in the church and missionaries. We have three special events scheduled throughout the year and ongoing weekly discipleship group meetings. We currently have a cell groups lead by those that have been involved in this training and many of the youth and young adults are the leaders and teachers in the Kid’s Club Ministry. We currently have approximately 250 persons involved in the discipleship ministry in Huancayo and new groups are being started each month. The ministry is also functioning in the jungle in Shiringamazu, Puerto Bermudez, and Palcazu where more than 100 persons are participating.

Each one of the special events cost approximately $850.00 and will be attended by approximately 300 people. We need funding for the purchase of training and discipleship materials in Spanish for the on-going discipleship groups. A full set of books for one person for the two year course costs $138.00. We also have a continuing need for good quality Spanish tracts for evangelism.

Weekly discipleship group meeting.

Huancayo Youth and Young Adult Outreach and Ministry Center

Our ministry to youth and young adults in Huancayo is growing. We have to date been using our living room as a meeting place. We would like to develop a place that is more accessible to the youth and young adults on a more continuous basis. We want to make it a place that would be more attractive to the unsaved and un-churched, where our current youth could easily invite friends and people they evangelize on the streets to meet Jesus Christ in a deeper way. We will use our current group of young adults to help staff the facility and to encourage them to grow in their faith as they are challenged to minister to others.

Monthly Costs

Monthly Facility Rental $600.00

Monthly Utilities $340.00

One Time Costs

Leasehold Improvements $8500.00

Furnishings (Tables, Chairs, Sofas, Etc) $1900.00

Microeconomic Project Development

We are in the process of developing some microeconomic projects that will help to make the ministry in Peru self-supporting. We currently have a working model project and are doing additional research. We hope to improve our model project and implement a new project based on the model in the coming year. If we are successful each project could support 6 to 8 national missionary workers. We hope to create a rotating capital fund that would be repaid by each new project and used to start additional projects. We currently could use any economic assistance that can be provided to help with the cost of research and initial capitalization.

Palcazu Mission Outreach Center

Our work in Puerto Bermudez and Palcazu with the medical teams from Mayo and Morehead United Methodist Church during the last three years has resulted in significant evangelism and outreach in the surrounding jungle communities. This has resulted in the planting of several churches in this region. We have also identified 108 native communities in this region that do not presently have a Christian witness. Through the work of these churches, we have trained several community health workers that are working with our local pastor, Pablo Paredes and the local medical personnel to reach out to some of these un-reached places.

Partial Building in Palcazu

One Time Costs

Construction Materials $4500.00

Small Truck $5000.00

Sound Equipment (Amp w/ 4 Speakers) $1200.00

Center for Production and Renewal

We have been working with our partner Peruvian ministry NEWMA (Misión-Amen) and medical teams from Mayo United Methodist Church and Morehead United Methodist Church to open works in the Canta Valley. This valley has been very closed to the Gospel until two years ago when Christ worked through the combined efforts of these groups to break open the doors. There are now 8 new churches in this valley with a plan to plant 15 more among its communities. There is a desire to create a center for production and renewal that would research business and agricultural opportunities to help create a sustainable income to support the ministries in this valley and provide a place for training local and international Christian workers. In addition, the center would help to provide a means to help provide community development throughout the valley, like potable water projects and electrical service to small communities. This center would hopefully become a model for similar projects in other locations around Peru to help to create self-sustaining ministries.

Part of the property has been purchased and is currently under cultivation to produce income. Final design of the facility is underway and initial construction is schedule for early 2007.

One Time Costs

Property Purchase (17.25 Acres) $140,000.00

Property Currently owned (9.52 Acres) -$ 77,000.00

Current Need (7.73 Acres) $ 63,000.00

Facility Construction* $640,000.00

*To be performed in phases and using short term teams as much as possible to reduce cost and increase cross cultural awareness.

Classroom Construction& Evangelization Project -- Casa de Oración Qechua

The Lord Jesus has blessed us with a relationship with the Casa de Oración Quechua in Chilca, Huancayo. This church is approximately 16 years old and is made up of a large population of Quechua speaking peoples from the south of Huancayo. The native tongue of many of these people is either; Quechua Huancavlica, Quechua, Ayacucho, Quechua Cusco, or Quechua Wanka. Through one of our pastors, Genaro Puente Ayala, we have involved this church in our discipleship program. There are 47 of their members, mostly young adults, participating with us in this ministry. Forty of these persons are almost to the point that they are ready to begin leading groups of their own. This combined with an opportunity to work with 200 non-Christian families (approx. 1000 persons) supported through Compassion International has given us a unique opportunity to evangelize and disciple in an area that has traditional been very closed to the Gospel message.

The Casa de Oración Quechua is in need of additional facilities. They own the land in Chilca and have a small sanctuary that is almost full on Sunday nights. All of their other buildings are provisional adobe construction and are too small to meet the current demand. They have contracted an architect and have made a master plan and detailed plans for expansion of their facilities. They have decided that they would like to build the classrooms first to provide places for their children, youth, and young adults, but also have plans to use these spaces as a training center to send out workers to the south to advance the Kingdom of Jesus Christ into these little evangelized areas.

Casa de Oración Members

The new education center is proposed to ultimately be three floors of five classrooms each. This construction has an estimated cost of $170,000.00. Many of the members of the congregation are skilled in construction and plan to reduce these costs by providing their skills and talents to the project in place of paying outside construction workers. By working with mission teams this would further reduce labor costs on this project. Financing for this project would come through grants from Compassion International, support from short term mission teams and from tithes and offerings and other fund raising activities of the congregation. The first phase of this portion of the project would be to construct the first five ground level classroom buildings.

Proposed classroom building site.

We would like to be more involved in this collaborative effort by encouraging teams to participate in the construction, discipleship, and evangelistic activities such as Kid’s Clubs that we are involved in with this congregation.