Dear Friends,
I’m writing to let you know that, God willing, I’ll be returning to Lima, Peru again this summer—my third year in a row! I’ve been accepted to rejoin Focus on the Family’s Brio mission trip and am excited to have the opportunity to, once again, reach out to those in need through service projects and open-air gospel presentations.
The plan is to leave June 30th to fly to Miami, Florida, where we will train for the pantomime gospel play, receive a light Spanish class, and get to know the others on our teams.
After spending 2 days in Miami, we will travel to Peru for the remaining 12 days of the trip where we will minister to the people of Lima and surrounding areas. When we arrive, we will be met by our translators and then board buses bound for the “El Pueblo Conference Center” just a few miles outside Lima proper. The remainder of that day will be spent resting and spending more time together with our team. Each night throughout the entire trip we will spend our evenings with worship, prayer, and presentations by well-known youth speakers.
After breakfast and devotions on the next day, teams will be sent out to perform at schools, parks, open-air markets, and neighborhoods. Occasionally, we will do a service project instead of the play.
Pray that we’ll have a spiritual impact on the people of Peru as in the past. Last year, more than 5,000 people expressed their desire to become Christians.
On this trip, as in the past, I hope that I can be a part of God’s work in someone’s life and lead them to Christ. I look forward to making new friends and reuniting with others from the past 2 years. I am also very excited that this year I will be able to put to good use some of the Spanish I have learned in school. Finally, I am eager to see how God will use this trip as a tool to mold me into the man that He wants me to be.
For the first time ever, I will have my own blog about the trip! So I will be able to let you know how God is providing funds before I leave. I will be able to update the blog in Peru and will be able to let you know what a day in Peru looks like.
My funding for this trip will be solely based on the financial help of those who are interested and financially able to be involved. I need to raise about $2,500 to cover mission costs, airfare, and the like. If you are able to contribute, all tax-deductible checks should be made out to, Big World Ventures, and sent to me at my home address by April 20th of this year (Sorry about getting this to you so late). Regardless of whether you can contribute I’d appreciate it if, you would pray for me and the team; health and safety at all times. And above all, that our outreach would have huge results.
In Him,
Rob Kirkpatrick II