Peru pics / Richard / 2005

Richard & gabe teaching in Huancayo 2005

I leave on Sunday, May 8, return Sunday May 22, traveling to 4 cities in peru: Huancayo, La Merced, Pucallpa and Tingo Maria. I will have a two-day training in each city, anticipating training 120 leaders so they can lead Person of Jesus groups in evangelism and discipleship ministries. The participants will see me teach several lessons on the first day and they will co-teach a lesson in small groups by the end of the day. They will each teach a whole lesson on the second day and receive teaching tips and evaluation. I am able to teach in Spanish. Pray that I will be understood and I will understand those talking with me.


Here are some pixs from my 1st trip to Peru in 2005. Actually, it was the first international trip for seeJesus. I went as a volunteer, not knowing one day i would be the international coordinator at seeJesus!

At the time i was the pastor of missions at Chelten Baptist, where I still am a member. I oversaw 8 lessons translated into Spanish for the 2005 trip. I went with Gabe Agostini, director of SALT who trains leaders in South America. Gabe is Argentine who lives in Wilmington DE. Our church supports him. When he asked me to go with him to Peru in 2005, I said I would go if I could teach the Person of Jesus. He looked over the material and said it was great; he just needed some lessons in Spanish that the participants could use in their churches. I asked Paul for persmission and Gabe had some friends translate the 8 lessons. I will be returning to the 2 cities where we went in 2005: Huancayo and Pucallpa. Huancayo is high in the Andes at 11,000 feet and Pucallpa is in the headwater region for the Amazon.

I will again team up with Gabe for the second half of this trip (2011). He will teach a lesson in two cities and help me train the leaders to teach lessons.