After Cusco, we went to Lima, which was the end of our holiday and time together. We spend six days in Lima and we were busy for most of our time there.
We arrived in Lima on the Thursday afternoon and just had a relaxing evening as we were all very tired. The on the Friday morning, Mum and I went with another Latin Link missionary Margaret Saunderson to a nursery which is attached to one of her churches La Tablada. This is the nursery where my friend and ex strider Anna Palmer worked and I got a special big hello from one of her classes because I was her friend, so sweet.
It was interesting to see other work within Latin Link and especially that of Margaret as I grew up hearing about her work as she has been in Peru for 31 years and my first experience of Latin Link was when I was 6 months and went to the Latin Link conference! Parents got me started thinking about mission very early in my life!
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| Painting Time |
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| More Painting |
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| Chu Chu |
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| Margaret with one of the girls |
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| 4 & 5 year olds |
Then on the Friday night, Mum and I went to meet my Peruvian sister Lileand who is studying in Lima (Dad was still not feeling great). It was nice meeting up with Lileand and getting her to practice her English so that Mum could understand what she said and to give me a break from translating.
As well as coming out to see me and the work of Latin Link in Peru, Dad also came to see some work of Tearfund as he is involved in this organisation as well. So on the Saturday we went to see a project called Paz y Esperanza (Peace and Hope) which is funded by Tearfund. Paz y Esperanza is a Christian human rights organisation which is dedicated to defending and promoting justice for people and communities in poverty or affected by various forms of injustice. It is a worldwide organisation and the Peru branch was set up to help victims of the terrorism by the Shining Path in the 1990's.
It was interesting for me to go and see and learn about other mission work in Peru. We met up with a girl who worked with young people who were involved in gangs and we also visited a pastor's wife who works with woman who have been abused and also runs a kids club 3 days a week for kids around her area - these kids mostly come from broken homes. The pastor's wife has such a huge smile in her face and seemed to really love her work and walking the path God had set her, it was so refreshing to see this. At the time we went to visit her, the kid's club had just started for the afternoon so she took us to visit it and meet the kids. The programme was being run by her husband, the pastor.
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| Kids Club |
On Saturday night we spent the evening with strider Hannah Wilkinson (based in Lima) and also two new striders from Northern Ireland (Mark and Karen Robinson - currently based in Lima but moving to Huaruaz soon). My parents had met Mark and Karen before but I hadn't, so it was nice getting to know them and catching up with Hannah again.
On Sunday we had a very much needed rest in the morning before having lunch with Margaret Saunderson and then going out to her churches with her. Margaret has planted six churches in Lima, and we visited three of them and Dad preached at two of them on the same night - first service at 5.30 in La Tabalada and the second service at 8.30 in Villa Marie. It was lovely to see Dad up and preaching and it was great to be able to understand the whole sermon for a change as he spoke in English and Margaret translated for him. This is the second time he has preached for Margaret in Peru, the first time being in 1995 - a long time ago.
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| Dad preaching and Margaret translating |
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