Jon flew down to the capital city of Peru, LIMA to meet up with our Pastor (Scott Estell) from our sending church (FaithWay Baptist).
The plan was to get a little sleep at a nearby church before catching our plane into the mountains early in the morning. But there was a party hall across from the church that extremely loud all night. This is a picture of our Pastor taking a picture of the party hall playing their loud music.
Pastor and Jon purchase happy meals at McDonald's while waiting at the airport at 4:30 am for their next flight.
They have to load onto a bus to be taxied out to their plane.
Pastor is boarding the Star Peru plane to go to Andahuaylas.
We slept on the plane ride that lasted about 45 minutes but arrived safely.
The welcome sign at the airport while waiting for our bags.
The family was so excited to receive items from the States that cannot be found in Peru. Thank you to all who provided the items for our Pastor to bring down for us.
Pastor is watching a celebration in the plaza.
Pastor fellowshipping before a church service.
Pastor visits Leonardo, a carpenter from the church who was asked to prepare the wooden blocks for the Cootie game.
Pastor is given the opportunity to hold one of their guinee pigs that they are raising to eat.
Pastor is in front of Gary's house getting ready to go to Sondor which is an Inca Ruin in the Mountains.
Pastor is given a combi ride which is a van used in the valley for public transportation. It becomes extremely crowded at times but is very cheap transportation.
The griengos (foreigners) get all kinds of looks.
This vehicle is called Max, it used to increase ones faith. We took Pastor in Max on the Mountain roads to go see the camp land that was given to the church.
The tiny spec on the top of the mountain is Pastor who took the challenge of getting a better view from up above.
Pastor gets a chance to sit in on a class at the Bible Institute on Friday but it was difficult for him not knowing any Spanish.
Gary translates for Pastor at the Single Adults activity.
Group photo of the Single Adults Class Activity.
Gary translates for Pastor's preaching on Sunday.
Pastor's last night in the mountains, gets invited to a restaurant from one of the families in the church and gets introduced to Peruvian drinks.
Jon goes back with Pastor to Lima to show him the differences between the coastal cities from the mountain towns. This is a picture of the big Catholic church in the main plaza of Lima.
We rented a small car and was able to drive all around visiting stores, tourist indian market, Larcomar mall, inquisition museum, and this statue of Jesus which was recently put up to be the statue facing the Pacific Ocean matching the Brazilian one which faces the Atlantic Ocean.
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