Wow! A clean city! Clean air! No motocars (motorcycle taxi)! 3,000 Volcanoes – 3 Active! Mountains tops with snow! A Free Day to Rest!
Saturday evening we had a service at Communidad Caristmatica Arequipa, with pastor William Arteaga. They have an attendance of over 500 with a service on Saturday evening, and then on Sunday at 8, 10,12, and 2. This is due to the small auditorium they have at this time. The pastor preaches at three on Sunday and his wife at the other. They also have 300 churches scattered over Peru.
This was our first meeting with Pastor Arteaga who is the pastor of Hector Carpio, the pastor of Escuela Biblica Corazon En Fuego in a suburb of Lima. Hector is also an engineer and was the engineer on the building project Life Church did at Jicarmarca for the Hodges. This service opened the door for further ministry with a special invitation to return in November to help them celebrate their new building.
Sunday morning we were with our host, Pastor Martin Orlando at Iglesia Communidad Christian La Vina. He is the regional coordinator for Pacto De Vida Universidad. And then Sunday evening we were with Iglesia Buenas Asambleas de Dior and pastor Armando Castillo and his congregation.
I do not know about the quality of the sermon by the preacher in these services, but I do know that the Spirit of the Lord was present and there was a flowing of the Holy Spirit upon the people for healing and release from bondage.
This blog is short. Why? Probably because the mind of the author is tired or it is because he is rushed with time to prepare it so we can depart for the day of looking at the city and getting to the Cusco Coffee Shop for some Java – doctored of course – and the internet to post the latest events.
Peru is fast opening many many doors for ministry. So many it will be very difficult to meet all the requests for return visits or to go to the cities in which the pastors we have met have other pastoral relationships and desire for us to meet and share in the churches there.
God bless,
Dr D and Marilyn
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