Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Church Planting Team Prepares for December Trip


The December Peru Missions team will begin their journey to Peru on December 3rd with all returning on December 19th. The team members are Bradley Chandler (Team Leader), Randy Bales (Specialty Coordinator), Mary Wilbur (Medical) and Eric Wilbur (Accountant/Media). As always, their plans are to seek God's will for reaching the Huarochiri People of Peru for Christ. Randy will serve primarily in San Pedro de Casta in order to identify possible church leaders, baptize one or two believers who can baptize others, story the purpose of the church to possible church leaders using Acts as the foundation, establish a commitment to begin a house church, disciple when possible and evangelize always. Randy also intends to vist the other villages and conduct two worship services on December 7th and 14th. Bradley, Mary and Eric plan to spend most of their time in and around the villages near Carampoma following up on professions of faith, seeking persons of peace and points of contact, discipling when called and evangelizing when led. The team will have 2 local translators joining them as they visit the Huarochiri people. Please pray for their safe travel throughout the trip. Bradley and Randy depart Houston on December 5th and return on December 16th. Eric and Mary depart San Antonio on December 3rd and return on December 19th. As you pray for their safe travel, also pray that all flight connections are made and they arrive in Lima on time with all their luggage. While in Peru, please pray for their travel safety while on the mountain roads and arranging local housing. Finally, pray that each member allows the Holy Spirit to work through them as they build the eternal Kingdom of God. Each of the team members is thankful to God for what He has done, is doing and will do through this missions effort. As Jesus said in Matthew 28: 19-20 "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spririt, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you to do, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."