Journey Peru

I arrived in Peru to be with Bill and Lena Shrader a little over a week ago. I will be returning to Ohio next Monday night. I can easily say that this has been one of the most beautiful and reviving weeks of my life. I can also say it's been one of the saddest, heart impacting and world changing weeks. Emotionally, I feel truly loved here as if I never missed a step being with this great family in the last nine years. The Shraders were my campus pastors when I was in college, as I was transitioning to graduate school, they began preparing to leave to come to Peru. Now, they serve as the Latin America Child Care directors for Peru overseeing the schools, children and as of the last couple months have began partnering with "Feed My Starving Children". The children were starving, unable to focus, learn, progress or grow neither physically or cognitively and so they are working to launch the program all over the country to get nutrients into the children specifically in the LACC schools so that they can stay awake long enough to learn about Jesus.

We were in Lima and Iquitos so far this week and I can so easily say that the people here are beautiful... if you don't believe me check out my "Journey Peru" photo album. We went to the Amazon Rainforest where met with the pastors and school directors about the feeding program and greeted the children. This is a GREAT short term launching initiative that will lead to a long term outcome. In the midst of meeting this beauty with love we also got a chance to experience the Amazon River. The idea of a huge huge snake infesting the water gives me the the creeps and I don't creep easily. But when it could easily wrap around me and elongate it's mouth and devour me, I struggle with that. Not cool.

I have much more to write and I'll add more later....