Our Mission Team

My Mission Team 2011

The Mission Training school was a preeminent experience for me. One I shall not soon forget…



Let me first tell you about my trip up the mountain… Did you ever see Romancing the Stone? If you did do you remember the bus ride Joan Wilder takes the one where she bounces awake?

The only thing missing on our bus ride was the pig and chickens! Well for those of you who saw the movie you know what I’m talking about but to those of you that didn’t well… We go up the mountain and there are drop offs so close to the VERY bumpy DIRT road that one wrong slip and it looks like you will slid right off the side. And when I say bumpy I do mean bumpy one gentleman got so sick we had to stop and let him throw up twice! I laughed out loud from the joy and said “what a ride!” I told everyone I felt like Joan Wilder and Karen Whitley said “That is why I love this girl no matter what we do she finds joy in it!”


There are thousands of Peruvians hungry to hear the word of God. They do not have enough trained pastors for the existing Churches much less the new churches they plant. That is why this Mission Training school is so important. They are training the Pastors and Missionaries of the future for Peru. There are still many places in the jungle that have not heard the gospel spoken. One Pastor was taking a group 16 hours up the Amazon River and then a 4 hour road trip to a native group. I saw him at the airport when I was leaving and he told me they had baptized 47 people while they were there. I told him that was a trip I would love to make some day.

I came here last year so broken hearted and yet God used me to help fulfill his plan. He gave me great teachers, Pastor Paul and Karen Whitley, Pastor Hector Del Carpio, Pastor Juan, Pastor Miguel and Suzan Cartagena and the many dedicated young people of Peru. This trip showed me how much he had used me last year and the difference I made. We are all just one person working for God but each and everyone of us matters. If we are not there in that moment working for God then who will be? If we do not speak God’s word then who will not hear it? We must all be Warriors for Christ and tell our story so others will learn and follow the one true God. Everyone has a story to tell. Maybe you think your story has no value but if your story touches one person and brings them to Christ and then they touch one person and they touch one person and so on it has a giant ripple effect and many people end up being saved just because of you shared your story. We should not be afraid to tell our story, we must all learn to be bold for God.

This Mission trip was a joyful homecoming to me and it was also a chance to plant more of God’s word. I can’t wait to return next year to see the fruits of this trips labor. It was an incredible thing to see real, lasting change coming from my last trip and I know that is what I did this time too.

Hard at work

On the streets of Chancay, Peru