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Barnabas Team
…and
they sent Barnabas off to Antioch. Then when he arrived and witnessed the grace of God, he rejoiced and began to encourage
them all with resolute heart to remain true to the Lord.
Acts 11:22,23
In 2006 Roni served on a summer village team with two other college students as a summer missionary with REAP
South in Vilcas Huaman, Ayacucho, Peru. Her team ministered among the people,
held Bible studies, and worked towards planting house churches.
As a Barnabas Team, this summer we’ll be ministering to teams just like the one Roni served on in 2006. We’ll take public transportation (Buses & Combis) as we travel from village
to village spending a couple days with each team we visit. While with the teams
we will
come
up along side of them and join in with them in ministry, whether it is street evangelism, prayer walking, or helping lead
Bible studies. We will also spend time talking and praying with the group and
each individual to both encourage them and find out how they are doing spiritually, physically, and emotionally.
The
Barnabas team that visited Roni in 2006 brought each person a baggie of goodies with pop tarts and small candies, this is
something we’d like to do as well because a “taste” of home is nice for the students as they spend their
summers in the mountains far from home. Another thing we’ve discussed is possibly bringing along a portable dvd player
with a couple movies so we can have a movie night with the team.
Research Team
You may wonder how the teams we’ll
be ministering to were placed in those locations. It starts with a research team.
We will spend part of our summer
functioning as a research team. With this, we will travel to areas that have
not been researched. We’ll travel to different towns, talk to the locals
and officials, and walk around to find out the demographics of the area, if there are any churches, if so what kind and what
their attendance
is. Among other information, we’ll also seek out places to stay and eat in the area as well as seek out
a person of peace as a potential contact person.
We will then compile the info we’ve
gathered, and write reports for each area we’ve researched.
The reports are then made available
for churches interested in adopting un-reached people groups in the Andes
How can you be a part of our trip?
As we prepare for this summer there are several
ways that you can get involved and be a part of our trip. First is prayer support;
in addition to ministering to the students we will also spend a large amount of time on public transportation, giving us many
chances for evangelism. Therefore, your prayer for our ministry and our safety
is very important to us. Second, you can support us financially, as summer volunteers
we must raise our own support and we need to raise about $4,000 to cover travel to and from Peru, food, lodging and travel
in country for the two of us. Finally, if you could send an encouraging note
to one of the students we’ll be ministering to it would be a great blessing for them.
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