PERU

Climbing For Christ

TAKING THE GOSPEL TO MOUNTAINOUS AREAS OF THE WORLD WHERE OTHER MISSIONARIES CANNOT OR WILL NOT GO

Peru

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The spectacular 22,205-foot (6,768-meter) Huascaran Norte in the Cordillera Blanca. (Photo by Gabe Colburn, C4C) Many powerful civilizations once called ancient Peru their home. One of the more prominent peoples in history to occupy this land were the Incas. However, in spite of thier stature...

Expeditions

Mission: Peru 2023

Delivering Good News to distant and forgotten people

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We are returning to the scene of the climb, a trek in the northern reaches of the Cordillera Blanca we visited in 2015. We had planned to GO there in 2022, but that was not God's plan (Proverbs 16:9). Mission: Peru 2022 was rescheduled for 2023 because of serious illnesses in the family of our national worker.

Mission: Peru 2022

Delivering Good News to distant and forgotten people

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We are returning to the scene of the climb, a trek in the northern reaches of the Cordillera Blanca we visited in 2015. This trip is cancelled until 2023.

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Trip Report: Peru

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Teaching and preaching without hindrance Background Peru is located on South America’s West Coast, bordering Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia and Chile. Our trip began in Lima and took us to the city of Huaraz, located near Nevado Huascaran (the highest mountain in Peru and sec...

Oh, my God, there is so much work to do

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Jaime, left, with Alison and Pastor Isabel in Chalhua. Mission Moment: Thursday, July 17, 2011 Jaime Servat, Climbing For Christ’s missionary to Peru, returned to Chalhua for the first time since our Mission: Peru 2011 team was in the Cordillera Blanca range in May. He visited our ...

Searching for Allison's mother

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Mission Moment: Sunday, June 19, 2011 Alison, the 9-year-old girl in the photo above, stole the hearts of the Mission: Peru 2011 team. We met her while evangelizing in Chalhua in mid-May. She was living with her maternal grandparents because her mother was in a hospital in Lima being treated fo...

Searching for Alison's mother (Sunday, June 19)

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Alison, the 9-year-old girl in the photo above, stole the hearts of the Mission: Peru 2011 team. We met her while evangelizing in Chalhua in mid-May. She was living with her maternal grandparents because her mother was in a hospital in Lima being treated for epilepsy and her father had deserted ...

Church in a Peruvian field

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Pastor Isabel and her son in their small mountain home. (Photo by Gary Fallesen) Mission Moment: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 By Gary Fallesen Founding President, Climbing For Christ Pastor Isabel Obregon stood in the part of her house where her church meets in the Peruvian Andes village of Ch...

Church in a Peruvian Field (Wednesday, May 25)

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Pastor Isabel and her son in their small mountain home. (Photo by Gary Fallesen) Pastor Isabel Obregon stood in the part of her house where her church meets in the Peruvian Andes village of Chalhua. Two years ago, she started the church there, easing the burden of walking 1½ hou...

Friday, May 20

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The U.S. members of Mission: Peru returned to their homes and families late this afternoon. Tired but feeling blessed to be a blessing during this 12-day Evangelic Expedition. “Not to us, Lord, not to us but to your name be the glory, because of your love and faithfulness.” &mdash...

Thursday, May 19

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We are homeward bound, having made the eight-hour drive from Huaraz to Lima to catch our overnight flight back to North America. Four airports and this part of Mission: Peru is complete. But the groundwork for Climbing For Christ ministry in the Cordillera Blanca has only just been put in place. ...

Wednesday, May 18

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As we hiked toward Huandoy Este’s magnificent 3,300-foot (1,000-meter) face on Tuesday, Edwin was walking ahead of me. Edwin climbed that face just like his father before him. But it wasn’t the face of the mountain I was seeing. I was seeing the face of a C4C-sponsored mountaineer. ...

Tuesday, May 17

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On our way out of the Yanama District we stopped in Chalhua and delivered two boxes of food the team did not use during its visits to mountain villages in the Cordillera Blanca. We gave one to 9-year-old Alison and her grandparents and the other to Pastor Isabel and her family of 10. Then it was &ld...
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