Wednesday morning the 3 seniors, with Miss Ross's help, treated us to a real breakfast of bacon, eggs, and pancakes. All week we had been munching on various breakfast breads and cereal so a hot breakfast was a treat. After breakfast we walked a few blocks to Union Church of Lima to be the chapel guests at the International Christian School. We lead in worship, performed our couple of skits and then Sydney and Nicole D both shared their testimonies. The cool thing is that when I lived in Lima, I taught at this school. At that time it was called Emmanuel Christian School and we only took up 3 classrooms on the 2nd floor. Now the school has a couple hundred kids and fills the 2nd floor and the basement. I enjoyed my tour of the school -- wow, things have changed!!! It was a fun walk down memory lane for me.
From there we took our handy dandy bus to the Peruvian Japanese Cultural center. After enjoying Italian Chicken for lunch in a Japanese restaurant in Peru (catch the irony there!) we toured the museum. It gave a great history of the Japanese in Peru. The kids had an opportunity to pray for the gospel to reach this unique people group!
Our next stop was a tour of the Huaca (archaeological dig) that was at the end of our street. We not only got to learn about the pre-Incan Lima people, but also saw llamas and the famous Peruvian hairless dogs. We then walked to the Indian Market for phase one of shopping. We ended the day enjoying a yummy Peruvian dinner at a cute restaurant at Kennedy Park.
Thursday was a true day to be tourists. We were downtown early to tour the Inquisition Museum, the San Franciscan church complete with catacombs and waited forever to see the changing of the guard at the governor palace. The riot police were out in full force, which is actually pretty normal protocol there. But, we did get to see the President of Peru and listen to his short speech! I guess that is why they were running late on the ceremony. After our time downtown we headed to the coast to tour the Royal Felipe Fort. It was enjoyable, but we were all getting hot and tired. We ended this day with another made dash to shop at the Indian market and then thew everything in our suitcases. Since we brought in so much stuff, we had lots of room for souvenirs. :)
Friday morning started early -- after a very short night. We didn't have any problems processing through all the hoops to leave the country. Although Jairus was pretty upset to leave Joe behind. Poor kid! The flight to Miami was uneventful. Thankfully we had lots of time there because it sure took time to get 18 people through immigration and customs and back to our gate. Everything seemed fine until at the last minute right before our flight left for DFW. There was a mix up on one ticket and Katie couldn't fly with us. In a few stressful moments, it was decided that Miss Ross would stay behind. (I say it was decided b/c the airlines made that decision for us -- in a not so nice or helpful way.) That wasn't the way any of us wanted the trip to end. But even in this huge hassle we can see God's provision. Both made it back to DFW Saturday morning.
Whew! There is my final summary! :)
This team has the testimony of God's faithfulness and His goodness. We experienced God! Today my pastor preached about being hungry for God’s presence. He used Acts 4 as his focus passage, but pulled many examples from the book of Acts. His main point was that God moves in a big way and we strongly sense His presence when His people pray! I sat in my pew and wept because we have that testimony – we were living proof of that truth! Praise God!
THANK YOU to everyone who prayed for us. Your prayer covering was the key to God doing mighty works in and through these kids! They will never be the same. Amen!
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