Current Activities

  • April 2010

  • Translating a pocket book. The tricky part is it has a lot of passages from the Amplified version and that is taking some of my brain to get done :P
  • Easter play 2011. My good friends Daniela, Renzo, and I are working on it already. Hopefully it will have all original songs and will be performed in a theater instead of the church building. I am contemplating the idea of writing a play for kids too.
  • Support for the Vega family. During a short and exhausting stay at home between trips, right during Easter, a friend shared with me about this family. They lost everything when a leaking gas tank was caught on fire. 2 family members died too. I did not know them myself, but my friend told me their son (around 30 year old) used to attend our church. I could not sleep well that night.
    The last morning I had free before heading out to our JFBC trip to Huaycán, I had packed everything and I went to meet Ricardo for the first time. He showed me what was left of his house and also took me to the comunity room they are living at. He was discouraged because his friends from Church had not visited him, and concerned since he is the only one family member that has a job currently. I offered him a lawyer in various occasions, but he was afraid because the gas company had asked them not to bring lawyers. A month had passed since the accident. He lives in a pretty rough part of downtown Lima and his eyes opened wide when I asked him if I could pray for him. He said: Here?! On the street?! Someone can rob  or attack us… I giggled (as I ussually do I guess). So we sat on a side of the street and I prayed for him, thanking God for His mercy and the opportunity for Ricardo to prove he seeks after God, not after human support. I also prayed for the Church, for us to know how to care for them. He looked different when we departed. As soon as I got home, I asked my mom to go visit Ricardo and his family. Specially his mom and other family members. Then I had to rush to meet with the 128 people team I would be working during that week.
    The next couple days my mom visited them and it was a great time as she explained to me on the phone. Ricardo’s mom was deeply touched and sadly she cannot read, but! I have a New Testament on cassettes I am going to give her for Mother’s Day.
    My mom contacted them with the lawyer’s team from our church to give them advise.
    We are praying for divine justice to come for them and provision too as well as emotional healing.
  • Janetcita. Is our little sister, although she is a couple years older than me. She works full time but is not enough to provide for her two daughters. We met her about 10 years a go, and she had been raped by her father all of ther life. As a result, she had a daughter when she was 16 and another daughter when she was 18. My mom contacted a home where the girls lived for a few years but now they are living with their mom, Janetcita. The girls are 13 and 15 now. We try to provide with support, clothes, and anything available we can get for them.
  • Planning for the near future:
    A couple girls are coming from the US to work on their spanish and help in ministry and I am helping organize it.
    A friend from Church asked me to help her organize a social help trip with a group of University students. The goal is to visit a small rural comunity in the Andes and build homes and stoves that are specially designed for cold, rural areas.
    Saturdays (starting April 24th) I will be leading a Bible Study for girls and my Art Club.
    I want to get people involved in making crafts with words of encouragement to sale and raise funds for social help proyects (like Janetcita and the Vega family and others).