Dispatches: Peru 2026
Mission: Peru 2026
Introduction
Kingdom worker Edwin Milla visited the village of Chalhua in the Cordillera Blanca range of the Peruvian Andes in July 2025. It had been 10 years since Climbing For Christ built a house of worship there for a group of Christians who’d outgrown the home they were meeting in. There were 60 or more believers in those days.
Ten years later, Milla reported: “Upon reaching the church, it was observed that the premises were closed.” He added there were “no brethren or congregants” present.
Edwin set up a meeting with Pastor Ezequiel, who lives in another village and had been recruited by Climbing For Christ to shepherd the church at Chalhua. “I hadn’t seen him in almost nine years,” Edwin said about Pastor Ezequiel. “We shared a time of prayer and conversation about the current situation of the church in Chalhua.”
We were moved by the Spirit to plan Mission: Peru 2026 around Chalhua. A return to the village and surrounding villages to proclaim the Good News of Jesus.
“Christians have been influenced by the Catholic group there,” Edwin said on the eve of Mission: Peru 2026.
Catholicism is the dominant denomination in Peru, which is reportedly 94 percent Christian but only 14.5 percent Evangelical. Anywhere from 60-to-80 percent of the country is Catholic. But Catholicism in Peru suffers from syncretism with Andean folk religions blended with the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. The worship of “Mother Earth” is incorporated into church services.
“You must not have any other god but me,” the Lord declared in Exodus 20.
“The Catholic church has won over all the people (in Chalhua),” Edwin said.
Our team will share the truth of who Jesus Christ is and what He did for the world: suffered for our sins and defeated death. “I am the way, the truth, and the life,” Jesus said in John 14:6. “No one can come to the Father except through me.”
By the power of the Spirit our team will seek to win back believers. The church awaits them. 
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