Mission Trip to Peru - Ashenika Indians

Me and five others from FBC-WM just came back from a week-long mission trip in Peru where we worked with the Asheninkas Indians along rivers in North Central and North Eastern Peru. Besides the six of us, we had a Peruvian interpreter and a mission leader from Extreme Missionary Adventures.
We loved the Asheninkas. We smiled with them, shared stories (Bible and personal), playtime, medicines, and God’s love with them. We ministered to Asheninkas who had lost loved ones and shared their hurt. We ministered to some who had lost love ones, and helped village leadership minister to them as well. We played with Asheninka children games in the moonlight like Lobo-Lobo, London Bridge is falling down, and other typical children games where everybody circles up, runs, and giggles hysterically until everyone is exhausted. We prayed for sick people and we all wondered why the skinny dogs never once attacked any of the hundreds of chickens that the villagers raised.
We slept on elevated platforms about 3’ off the ground with thatched roofs and no walls away from “critters”. We laughed with one of our members who overcame an overwhelming fear of roaches. We named our journal “Rats, Bats, and Roaches”.
We helped a nearly 70 year old preacher and his son convert nearly 20 souls to Christianity. We encouraged that minister and his son to stay the course. We gave him food, flashlights, medicine, a blow-up air mattress, felt sleeping bag, a few other sundries, and we came home. He has no organized support and lives in an extremely poor village. He’s happier now than he’s ever been and so is his son.
To say that the last seven days were life changing would be to understate the impact of the trip greatly. Naturally, we think that what we learned and experienced would benefit the whole world, but how do we convince the world of that? We wonder “Why are they so happy with virtually no material possessions, and we aren’t with what they can’t even fathom? There are many lessons to learn from this trip, and I don’t think I’ll live long enough to learn them all. Thank you, God for such a blessing.

Mission Trip to Peru -

Me and five others from FBC-WM just came back from a week-long mission trip in Peru where we worked with the Asheninkas Indians along rivers in North Central and North Eastern Peru. Besides the six of us, we had a Peruvian interpreter and a mission leader from Extreme Missionary Adventures.
We loved the Asheninkas. We smiled with them, shared stories (Bible and personal), playtime, medicines, and God’s love with them. We ministered to Asheninkas who had lost loved ones and shared their hurt. We ministered to some who had lost love ones, and helped village leadership minister to them as well. We played with Asheninka children games in the moonlight like Lobo-Lobo, London Bridge is falling down, and other typical children games where everybody circles up, runs, and giggles hysterically until everyone is exhausted. We prayed for sick people and we all wondered why the skinny dogs never once attacked any of the hundreds of chickens that the villagers raised.
We slept on elevated platforms about 3’ off the ground with thatched roofs and no walls away from “critters”. We laughed with one of our members who overcame an overwhelming fear of roaches. We named our journal “Rats, Bats, and Roaches”.
We helped a nearly 70 year old preacher and his son convert nearly 20 souls to Christianity. We encouraged that minister and his son to stay the course. We gave him food, flashlights, medicine, a blow-up air mattress, felt sleeping bag, a few other sundries, and we came home. He has no organized support and lives in an extremely poor village. He’s happier now than he’s ever been and so is his son.
To say that the last seven days were life changing would be to understate the impact of the trip greatly. Naturally, we think that what we learned and experienced would benefit the whole world, but how do we convince the world of that? We wonder “Why are they so happy with virtually no material possessions, and we aren’t with what they can’t even fathom? There are many lessons to learn from this trip, and I don’t think I’ll live long enough to learn them all. Thank you, God for such a blessing.