You Gotta Read This!!!

As a missionary in Lima, Peru, I am charged with the job of starting the “REAP” strategy of church planting amongst micro groups of people here in Lima.   Basically the idea is to partner Baptist Churches in the US with areas in Lima that have very little gospel presence.  Because the strategy is new [...]

Potential “Adoption Area”

Here are a couple of pictures that we took in San Juan de Miraflores in Pamplona Alta, La Nueva Rinconada.  My home church, Union Grove Baptist Church, is praying about adopting the area to begin ministry and, by the grace of God, to plant strong, healthy churches.  Please pray for the people living in this [...]

My friends and I are still here

The team from Union Grove has come and gone and we had a GREAT week.  I truly believe God went before us as we made many good contacts for future ministry and I believe the guys got an accurate idea of what ministry there will be like.  Thank you for your prayers.  I’m praying they [...]

Feeling Better and Getting Ready

Since my last post, I have had some sickness come my way… in the form of at least one parasite!  I’m still waiting to find out if I have giardia in addition to my other already confirmed parasite.  And in case you didn’t see it on Jenny’s blog, I fell down the steps when our [...]

REAP: Your church can be involved!

Here’s what it says on the REAPSouth website:

There are thousands of indigenous peoples throughout South America who are either un-reached or have no viable access to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  To get the gospel message to them in the most effective way, the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention has developed and implemented [...]

Why we need REAP?

REAP?  Rapid Entry, Advance Plan.  But what is that?
I suppose the best way to explain REAP as a strategy is to begin with why it is needed.  Getting a missionary to the field is no easy task.  Within the IMB, career missionaries must have seminary education.  That takes time and money.  The “process” of application [...]

REAPSouth information is coming

As time and internet connection permit, I will begin to post more information about what REAPSouth does and what we will be doing in Lima.  I know many of you are interested.

The Changes Continue

Recently Jenny has been blogging much more consistently than me- I hope you  have been reading over there about all that has been going on.  I hope to get this blog back on track again soon.  Here are a couple of updates for you:

We are moving this weekend to a temporary apartment.  In April, we [...]