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This post originally appeared on the Johnsons' blog "The Johnsons in Peru". You can read the original post here. When we first came to Trujillo, I was a little nervous about what I would do here.

Last year, we published this article about plans for a school at Cristo Restaurador Presbyterian Church in Manuel Arévalo. While it has taken a year longer than expected, Lord willing ground will be broken soon as several teams travel to Trujillo this summer (our Peruvian winter) to help the brethren build their school. This school has been a long time in the planning, and we are very thankful to the Lord for His provision.  In this blog post, Pastor Ricardo Hernández shares ...

A Week in My Life  by Peru Mission missionary Albert den Oudsten Often I start the week without knowing what I exactly will be doing that week. Every week is different working as a missionary here in Trujillo. At the last moment meetings are scheduled or cancelled and more activities are always coming up.

This month Peru Mission was incredibly blessed by Silent Images, an organization that “provides photography and videography services to other nonprofit organizations seeking to tell stories of hope in the midst of persecution, poverty, or oppression.”

Camp gives them a place to “start from zero,” a place where they can experience, if for only a few days, a different reality.

Last week we had the pleasure of welcoming back our dear friends from Independent Presbyterian Church of Savannah, GA. Part of the team partnered with the Bethesda Clinic in Wichanzao to provide dental care and pharmacy (the clinic provided a physician and nurses), and another group worked in Christ the Restorer Church in Manuel Arévalo doing some remodeling and helping with construction on the Missional Hospital. We are so thankful for IPC Savannah's faithful commitment to Peru Mission, and for...

This week we've enjoyed the presence of our friends from Second Presbyterian Church of Greenville, SC. The team spent the week at Christ the Redeemer Presbyterian Mission in Parque Industrial working on the new sanctuary. The team was able to accomplish a great deal working alongside the Peruvian work crew, including laying the concrete floor.

Last week the Los Rosales Church in Cajamarca welcomed some very dear friends into their midst for a week of VBS and medical ministry. This was the 12th year that First Presbyterian Church of Jackson, MS has visited Cajamarca, and many of the team members this year have been making the trip for nearly as many years. The doctors saw over 1000 patients and the VBS volunteers ministered to hundreds of primary school children in two separate public schools.

A few weeks ago we enjoyed a visit from professors Andrew Sauerwein and Christopher Shelt of Belhaven University. Several local musicians (many of them students at the conservatory of the National Institute of Culture) joined the men for master classes, seminars, and a competition. Peru Mission missionaries Rachel Reese and Allen Smith coordinated the visit, and Pastor Oscar Briones was able to meet many of the students with the purpose of serving on the conservatory's campus in the months to co...

Last week Christ the Redeemer Church of Parque Industrial received a team from University Fellowship Church in Norman, OK. Throughout the week, the team worked on the area behind the church to prepare it for the laying of a foundation for a new church building. Their consistent cheerfulness and stick-to-it-iveness was an inspiration to everyone and a testimony of their love for Christ and for His Church.

Our friends from Covenant OPC in Orland Park, IL returned to Trujillo last November to continue working on the "Casa Pastoral" for Wichanzao that they had begun on their previous trip.  It is designed to be a two-story house with a study, large living-room/dining-room area, kitchen, and patio area on the first floor, with all the bedrooms on the second floor.  For now, Pastor Juan Marquina will be living on just the first floor.