Countdown to Tarma!!! - 9 Days to go!
Here is a first post on our mission to Tarma, Peru from November 4-14, 2010.
Our mission is to go to Tarma with Faith EV Free supported missionary David Block to plug into his English as a second language ministry (ESL). We will be networking with 4 missionaries on the ground in Tarma: Bethany Kerr, Julio Rojas, Elsa Coruacho and Meridith McAllister. They work in various schools and have Bible studies in several businesses.
The main work with be presenting the Gospel through practical business studies such as time management and financial studies, among others. The men that are going will be presenting these, while the women will be working with the women on cooking and ESL teaching in a preschool and Steven Hawking High School.
We are exited about this mission as this is a new area for us to be going into. We ask for your prayers and thoughts as we go about this work of the Lord.
The people going are Mark and Karen Demers, Shane and Lina Hoffman, Eric Nei, Jay Grooters, Randy Grooters, Joel Duke, Nancy Richardson, Tim Friedrich, Hal Havisto and Christina Quam.