Update

The last two weeks have been packed with activities. The Yaycuy team spent a few days in Ventanilla, an extremely marginalized area of the city, working in collaboration with World Vision on some seminars with "community promoters" who are leaders that are working to develop and improve their communities. The students helped with some workshops that focused on movement and dance which were designed to help people learn about self-awareness, self-esteem, and team-building. The students all had to learn about this before teaching it, and for many of them it was a very new and different experience, some students said they were skeptical at first about what they were doing, but as they continued, they realized the value of what they were learning and were excited to share it with the people of Ventanilla. They spent the rest of the week focusing on their mentoring relationships with the City Explorers program and also doing some sports and recreation outreach to kids in the neighborhood around the Yaycuy ministry house.

At Paz y Esperanza we had a week full of lots of different activities. On Monday through Wednesday we continued our regular activities of serving at the community kitchen and doing home visits with our friends Pastor Casio and Pastora Ofelia to visit the sick and pray with them. Then on Thursday through Sunday we spent our time in Bayobar, a nearby neighborhood, where we helped Paz y Esperanza with a community fair and also built a staircase with people from the community. This was hard physical labor without any fancy equipment, and gave us awesome insight into how hard the people of Peru work, especially the poor who build their homes and communities on the hills that surround Lima. The students really enjoyed it and expressed how they felt it taught them so much about how hard the people here work to survive.

Many students are still sick, so please pray for our team's health. The diahrea and colds have been lingering for several students. Please pray for complete health for the whole team in our last days here in Lima. Please also pray that we would continue to take advantage of every moment we have here in Peru to experience more of God's love for us and for the people of Lima and his power to transform this city through those who are willing to serve Him.