This is my first entry in this journal for this year 2009.
It is Saturday August 22, and I am beginning this exercise, my blogging attempt, while sitting at the Lima, Peru airport waiting for my flight to Cusco. I am traveling to Cusco to join some folks from the USA and Canada as we participate in a medical mission with Medical Ministry International where we will serve the spiritual and physical needs of the poor in this area.
This is my seventh mission with MMI this year with two more to go after this one. I have just returned to Peru on Friday the 20th from my R & R trip back home to Florida. I was home for 20 days and during that time I traveled to St Louis to attend an international conference with Reliv International and our Reliv Kalogris Foundation www.relivkalogrisfoundation.org .
This was a great experience again for me. I was named area coordinator for Peru for the Reliv Kalogris Foundation last August as I have been working to develop nutritional feeding programs here in Peru for children in need and at risk with malnutrition. I am hoping to expand this ministry for the poor here with my foundation which I established in 2006. See link- www.pottershandfoundation.org
I have, with the help of dedicated helpers here in Peru, 250 children in 8 feeding programs to date, with the desire and hope to establish many more over the years ahead.
I also am working to form another foundation or ONG here in Peru to further this ministry and to find other ways to help the poor. My thoughts are to help the children in poverty with nutrition, education and vocational opportunities.
I hope to have this ONG established in a couple of months, again with the help and support of dedicated local Peruvian friends who have captured this vision with me.
But for the moment I am content to be going out again to serve the poor on this two week mission to Cusco. I will be joining some very good friends and other dedicated people who come here with servants’ hearts to serve the needs of the poor. And I know that we are equally blessed by the very people we encounter.
More to come.
En El Nombre de Cristo,
Taylor J Benson
Founder/Director/ Servant
The Potters Hand Foundation
4521 PGA Boulevard #129
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida 33418
Hello all my friends,