Mission Perú

2013 Perú Mission Team

Sara Armstrong {Lima, Perú}

Rusty Edmondson {Lima, Perú}

Rose Boelke {West Jefferson, North Carolina}

Connie Dale {Charlotte, North Carolina}

Brenda Paredes {Lima, Perú}

Diana Pardue {New York, New York}

Bev Vickrey {Charlotte, North Carolina}

Gary Geisel {Edgewater, Maryland}

Jim Hogan {Baltimore, Maryland}

Randy Ross {Charlotte, North Carolina}

Tom Skinner {Charlotte, North Carolina}

Van Dale {Charlotte, North Carolina}

• Saturday, July 6:
• Connie and Van travel to Lima.  They will visit the Paredes family and explore Lima.
• Friday, July 12:
• The majority of the team (Bev, Diana, Rose, Gary, Jim, Randy, & Tom) arrive in Lima.  Sara, Brenda, Connie, Rusty and Van meet arrivals at the Lima airport.
• Everyone spends the night in Lima.
• Saturday, July 13:
• Everyone departs Lima for Ayacucho in the afternoon.  In Ayacucho, we connect with the mission group from Port Orange Presbyterian Church, Port Orange, Florida.
• Sunday, July 14:
• The Lircay Team (Rusty, Diana, Gary, Jim, & Randy) departs Ayacucho for Lircay. The Huanta Team (Sara, Bev, Brenda, Connie, Rose, Tom & Van) depart Ayacucho for Huanta.
• The Presbytery of Huanta has asked that part of our team travel to the town of Lircay to help assemble benches to be used as pews in the churches of the Synod of Huancavelica. The other part of our team will travel to Huanta to help paint four (4) local churches.
• Gary and Jim have also graciously offered to share their many years of banking experience and are developing a curriculum on church and personal financial management to be presented to church leadership and members in both Lircay and Huanta.
• Wednesday, July 17:
• The Lircay team departs and travels to Huanta.
• Saturday, July 20:
• Everyone departs Hunata.
• Visit the artisan village of Quinua.
• Arrival in Ayacucho.
• Sunday, July 21:
• Everyone departs Ayacucho for an early morning flight to Lima.
• We will travel to Amen Church for morning worship and fellowship. In the afternoon, everyone will visit the Inca Market in Miraflores before having dinner and heading to the airport for our flights home.  
• Gary & Jim will remain in Lima and travel to Cusco after the mission trip to visit the Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu.

This will be Sharon Church’s sixth consecutive trip to Huanta. Each year I travel there becomes more special than the year before, in part, because I am in awe of the blessing of yet another opportunity to worship and work next to my Andean brothers and sisters.

I am looking forward to the time together with each of you and each of them, a time of faith, fellowship and service to Jesus Christ.

I wanted to share a recent note from Samuel Montes, current Secretary (and past President) of the Presbytery:
"I am filled with excitement and encouragement in organizing the work we will do together in Ayacucho, Lircay and Huanta. I treasure many aspects of the partnership that Sharon Church enjoys with the Presbytery. The most endearing aspect is how our partnership has enabled and empowered the Presbytery to reach out and minister to its neighbors. “…the mission is not ours, the real promoter is Jesus and God himself, the One who moves mountains and changes lives… and nothing will stop Him.”

Amen Samuel, Amen

A special thanks to each of you for joining this year’s trip to help bolster, deepen and move this partnership forward.

Grace and peace to each of you.
Randy