Lima

I arrived in Lima a couple of days ago and I am started to get settled in. Lima is a very interesting city. It has around 8 million people and it is on the coast of Peru. The city is in the middle of a desert and it is also closer to the equator which makes the temperature much warmer than Santiago. I have already learned a lot about missions since i have been here. The missionaries down here are Paul and Amy Dowell. They have been in Lima for four years and have been doing incredible work here. The Sunday we arrived is the day they had to move out of their building. They were no longer able to pay rent, and so they decided to split up into 3 congregations. It first this seemed bad but the local leaders have really stepped up and taken ownership of the church. There are small group meetings almost everynight of the week to focus on discipleship and continued encouragement. It has been really cool to be a part of these meetings and my spanish is getting good enough to be more active in the meetings.

Every Wednesday we meet with the youth for a devotional. It has been my favorite time here so far. After the devotional time we broke off into prayer partners. It was very cool to be able to pray with someone in another language. I look forward to building deeper relationships here in the next couple weeks and learning more about missions stategies. Please be praying for the church to be able to find places to worship at and to keep the incredible unity they have maintained even though they are so far away.