The Potter's Hand Foundation

I am very happy to announce the finalization of a brand new ONG I have been blessed to establish here in Peru. The Potters Hand- Sirviendo a Ninos y Ancianos del Perú. This is a sister organization I established to act as a receiving ONG here in Peru for the long term nutritional products that The Potters Hand Foundation is bringing to Peru. The Potters Hand Foundation is the vehicle that allows me to serve the children of Peru with the nutritional supplemental products provided by The Reliv Kalogris Foundation, which is the foundational arm of Reliv International, Inc.,  a food science, research and development and manufacturing company based in St Louis, Mo.

At present we have 10 programs here in Peru serving 295 poor and disadvantaged children with daily, long term nutritional supplemental products. With hopes to develop many more programs, reaching many more children as funding and provision permits.

Our ministry is for providing our powerful, long term nutritional supplemental programs and the love of Jesus to sick and disabled orphans in Lima and children in extreme poverty in the Amazon jungle and the Andean mountains of Peru, the children nearest to God’s heart.

God’s call to use my skills in business and my adventurous spirit led to opportunities to serve as a BRIDGE between International ministries and local indigenous care givers, bringing them together for greater impact and healing for children.

Primarily, this came to mean sharing God’s love in word and deed and serving as International Area Coordinator for Peru with The Reliv Kalogris Foundation which supplies these vital nutritional products to improve children’s lives around the world.

Fundamental to our programs is partnership with already existing indigenously- lead programs where caregivers are given ownership and responsibility. They are taught and trained in the daily and long term administration of our supplemental nutritional products and sharing the good news of God’s love for every child.

We believe in empowerment and that indigenous peoples are best equipped to minister to children’s physical and spiritual needs. We simply serve as a bridge to resources, teachers and friends.

We are defined and characterized by our relationship with God and the love and message of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our affiliations of faith are with our home church of Christ Fellowship in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA and with the Union Church of Lima here in Peru.

I thank everyone for your prayers and your support as I am blessed to serve the children in need and at risk here in Peru.

Love- Without counting the cost!

Little Cynthia, one of the children we are serving with our nutritional feeding programs in a remote village in the Andes.

Hi everyone,
Now that I am back in Peru after my R & R visit back home in Florida, Arizona and Colorado I am working and moving forward with my service to the children here.

We are preparing to receive our next annual shipment of nutritional products for our growing feeding programs for children in need and at risk here in Peru. Also I will be joining my friends with Medical Ministry International to serve on a one week mission in the poor areas around Lima in the Pomplona communities.

I am very pleased and happy with our progress here and with the prayers and support we are receiving from friends back home. As always I am very grateful to our Reliv Kalogris Foundation in St Louis for the nutritional products for children that they are providing now going into our third year. We have seen many wonderful life changing, and sometimes life saving results with these programs.

We are praying to grow and to reach out to more communities of children, especially in the remote villages in the high Andean mountains and into the jungles of the Amazon to reach indigenous tribal children there. These are typically where the people and their children have the least amount of health care available and are living a subsistent life with basic, poor nutritional food supplies.
Ever onward in our God given, God directed and God provisioned dream of service to these wonderful people and their children. More to come and thank you all again for your prayers and support.
Please feel free to send me messages, etc as it is always good and encouraging to hear from folks back home and from friends around the world.
God Bless,
Taylor

Behind me is one of my favorite places here in Peru. The canon del Colca where I have one of my nutritional supplemental feeding programs for children and where I have served on many missions with Medical Ministry International. On the other side of the canyon I can see the spot where I was bucked off of my mule on one of these missions.

I am soon going home to Florida for some rest and relaxation after my latest 5 month ministry stint here in Peru.

It has been a great 5 months though I am ready for a rest and to visit all my friends and family back home. I am flying out of Lima this Thursday the 28th and will be in Miami around 2:45PM. One full month to catch up on things back home and also to attend a conference with Reliv International and our Reliv Kalogris Foundation. This 3 day conference is in Phoenix and when it is finished I am flying into Colorado to spend three days with my son, Taylor Scott. Flying into Telluride and the regional airport should be a great time. I am looking forward to all of this very much.

It has been a slow start for me in this blogging experience so I am going to start again. Short and sweet, si!! Consider this a practice event and a discipline effort for me.

A mention of a young girl, Abby Sunderland here. She is the 16 year young girl who has begun her solo, around the world, non stop sailing adventure. I think that is a grand adventure for any one to accomplish and I will be following her journey every day for the next 6 months or so. Check out this Link. to her site. Go Abby!!!

PS: Just sat through some minor but quite long earth tremors here in Lima.

Hi eveyone,

I have just returned to Lima, Peru after a great visit back home. One whole month starting in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, then on to a conference in Phoenix, Arizona to attend our winter National conference with Reliv International and our Reliv Kalogris Foundation. Then on to Telluride, Colorado to spend some good quality time with my son, Taylor Scott and his better half, Faith. Then back to Florida to be with all my church family and friends there. I used this time also to share my story of faith and how my God given dream to serve the children of Peru is progressing.

So now I am back and getting ready to travel to visit all my existing nutritional feeding programs in three states of Peru and to establish about 6 to 8 new ones. Very busy times for me even as I am looking for partners who might be led to share this ministry with me by helping with funding. I am blessed to have grown this ministry beyond my own resources and to grow these programs it is time to pray for others to join me in this awesome purpose to care for our Lord’s little ones here in the remote villages in the high Andes mountains and into the Amazon jungle.

Please pray for me and for His purposes in this effort. And for His continued and growing provision for The Potters Hand Foundation.

I love to hear from my friends around the world too so fell free to holler at me.

Love- without counting the costs!

En EL Nombre de Jesus,

Taylor