New Peru Group Members

Each year we all are blessed by the addition of new people (and returning members from other churches) to join our trip to Peru. This year we are excited to be joined by:

Bryson City Presbyterian Church, Bryson City, NC:

• DeAnna Booth (DeAnna joined us on the 2008 trip)
• Laura Booth

Port Orange Presbyterian Church, Port Orange, FL:

• Sarah Dolatowski
• Kaitlin Lyons
• Kerry Lyons
• Kendall Ward
• Theresa Wolf

Below is proof that the members of Port Orange Presbyterian Church in Port Orange, Florida are as excited to go Peru as we are. Please pray for our new guests that they will experience the joy, giving and blessings that all others have received on previous visits to Huanta.

The excerpt below is copied from the newsletter of

Port Orange Presbyterian Church (USA)

4662 S. Clyde Morris Boulevard

Port Orange, Florida 32129

Port Orange Presbyterian Church Mission Team asks God: Where are you calling us in 2010? Our long term goal is to discern just where God might want us to try to initiate a long-term mission partnership with Christians somewhere out there in His world. We want to learn from, with, about and because of each other. We want to challenge each other to grow in our relationships with Jesus Christ. We want to be the best versions of ourselves as disciples of our Lord. We want to BE the church worldwide in a long-term relationship that will undoubtedly change the people we work with and ourselves. So, we are sending out 3 scouting teams from Port Orange Presbyterian Church to learn from other churches who have been in long-term partnership with Christians worldwide. We will team up with First Presbyterian DeLand, FL and their partners at Shalom Presbyterian and La Vida Joven in Esteli, Nicaragua, two distinctly different ministries 3 that they have had 15-year relationships with. We will partner with Sharon Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, NC and their partners in Huanta and Lima, Peru, ministries that they have had a 5-year partnership with.
Our church will send 13 people on international scouting missions this year. These folks will come home with information that they learn from these sister churches in DeLand, Charlotte, Esteli, Huanta and Lima.

POPCians will come home with what they learn about:

• How the relationships got started
• How the churches have maintained the partnership
• How the relationships have grown and changed over the years
• How the people of their churches have been changed by the partnerships

…and these POPC folks will hopefully come home with some idea of just where and how POPC might initiate a partnership of our own in last half of 2010. This is perhaps one of the most exciting opportunities.