29 de marzo 2009
Hello everyone,
It has been awhile since I last wrote a newsletter about my adventures and the growing ministry I have been blessed with here in Peru.
I will try to catch up and do it briefly for you.
Myself and a good friend had a great Christmas celebration here in Peru with the children of The Posada de Amor in Cieneguilla, Lima, Peru.
My fifth Christmas with these wonderful kids and this is where I first came to Peru and fell in love with the children and the people here.
I had a quiet January for the first half and then I traveled south to Arequipa, my favorite city here in Peru. I was invited to attend the PRIMERA CONFERENCIA ANUAL
“CONECTANDO AREQUIPA”. The first annual conference of a group of social services, spiritual services and medical ministries. It was a very good conference and I am now a member of this organization and I hope that my participation there will grow as I develop many more of my nutritional feeding programs there for poor children.
In late January I served on my first mission of the year with Medical Ministry International down in Ica. This is a desert area in the south near the coast and which was hard hit by the large earthquake in August of 2007. I only could serve there for a few days as I had to get back to Lima to leave for the states.
I went back to Florida for the month of February. This was a great time of rest and recuperation for me. I had a wonderful time with my friends and church family there.
I also traveled to Fort Worth, Texas in mid February to attend the National Conference of Reliv International and the Reliv Kalogris Foundation. This is the company and foundation that is providing the nutritional products that through my Potters Hand Foundation we are feeding 250 children here in Peru through out this year of 2009 and into early 2010. A wonderful company and a wonderful group of distributors who are making a difference in the world. I have included a web link to the new Reliv Kalogris Foundation website here for you to check out – www.relivkalogrisfoundation.org.
Actually the shipment of products for this year is on it’s way and is due here in Lima about the 2nd of April. All is prepared for me to receive it and I have been blessed with free secure warehouse space for the products.
Next I have just completed my second two week mission with MMI and it was here in Lima, in the shantytowns in the hills above this large metropolis. We had a great group of folks from the USA and Canada who came down here to serve the poor. I also want to acknowledge the young Peruvian professionals who served their own on this mission. It is wonderful that they volunteer their services here to the poor. I have met many young people here who are getting involved and want to make a difference as they serve the needs of the poor.
I will be very busy these next few days as I visit all my existing feeding programs, share in a birthday celebration with my Godson Matthew, who will be two years young on the 2nd, have a special dinner with my princess, Aleli, age twelve, visit with Yasmin, a wonderful young lady whom I am helping with her education as I can, get through customs procedures, facilitate one new program in Chaclacayo about two hours east of Lima and get ready to go out for a month to the south to facilitate three more new programs and then finally participate in another two week mission with MMI in the Colca Canyon down in Arequipa.
Actually I have more to do but this all makes a long sentence and I am sure not grammatically correct. Besides I promised to keep this short and I know I am stretching that promise. So I will close now and I thank everyone for your understanding and patience with me in this storytelling about my service to the children of Peru.
I do want to thank all my friends back home who took care of me, fed me extremely well (I gained back the ten pounds or so that I had lost as I served down here), kept me company and ministered to me. I love you all.
And of course I wish to say hello to my son Taylor Scott. Love you son.
En El Nombre de Cristo with love,
Taylor
“Little children, let us stop saying we love people;
let us really love them, and show it by our actions.”
1 John 3:18 (LB)