I’m passionate about changing the world. More than 10% of our budget is devoted to our mission work around the world. In a recent report, Pantano Christian Church had the highest percentage of people going on mission trips of “mega-churches” (1000 or more attendees). We are on mission with God!

My friend Doug Lucas just sent this report from his visit to Trujillo, Peru, where we are partners in Project New Hope (PNH). Listen to what God is doing. THIS IS HUGE! We are partnering with Project New Hope to change a city of over a million people and God is doing AMAZING things. PNH is …

“simultaneously reaching out to 7 barrios, university students, and professionals. They’ve built 7 community centers, psychological counseling for those who need it, assistance to beaten and battered women and a medical clinic (with another one on the way), micro-economic business start-ups, and even larger business start-ups to provide jobs to those in the barrios with some of the profits being used to sponsor new leaders in local churches. One business, a snail farm, has grown so rapidly that it is now said to be the 3rd-largest snail production facility in all of South America.

They’ve got a dairy farm, a new guinea pig operation coming on line, and they do Bible story-telling (orality) like it’s going outa’ style. They teach “Character First” to every member of the staff and virtually every new worker and believer. There’s a new women’s village in the works for ladies that have been abandoned. They’re involving Peruvian professionals in reaching out to the poor in their own city, which gives them all the more help addressing citywide problems. We’ve noticed a distinct change in the people in the barrios we’ve visited.

As a result of the teaching, they seem to have much more dignity and a higher self esteem than they would have had otherwise. There are sports outreaches in the works, educational groups, kids outreaches, a new “Amigos en Accion” outreach that pulls together buddy groups, a car wash business, flower vendor carts, and even knitting groups. The list goes on. Now all this would be impressive under any circumstances. But what I have a hard time understanding is how they’ve launched all this in less than 3 years! Shew. Makes me tired just thinking about it.

Only God could have caused all this to come together in such a short time… but he chose to do all this through the hands of hard-working visionaries. Only two of these families are from the USA. The rest is being carried out by Peruvians. It’s astounding. Makes me think that sometimes we underestimate what God can do.”

Wow! If you want to be a part of our Peru team, contact Tim Coop or David Thoresen. Together to make a difference for a million people in Trujillo,

Glen