I wish to thank The Reliv Kalogris Foundation and all our Reliv distributors around our Reliv world who make our mission to Nourish Our World possible. And who totally understand what it is that we have been blessed with and our mission to share our four pillars of hope with people, the 4 pillars of mission, company, products and opportunity.
I want to also recognize my wonderful church family back home, Christ Fellowship in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, where my journey of faith and my wonderful relationship with God my Father, My Lord Jesus Christ, savior, teacher and friend and His Holy Spirit, counselor and friend, all began back in 1999.
Another family group I wish to honor is Medical Ministry International, serving the spiritual and physical needs of the poor here in Peru and around the world. I have been blessed to serve on many missions these last two years with some wonderful folks from the USA, Canada, Europe, and Australia and with some terrific young Peruvian professionals.
I have been answering this call and walking in faith with the Lord here in Peru for three years now. And we have ongoing now 10 programs in diverse areas of Peru, where we are presently serving and providing 307 poor children in need and at risk our wonderful daily, yet long term, nutritional products and programs. We pray to have reached up to 450 or more children by the end of April, early May.
Some of the children that we started these programs with in 2008 are in their third year of daily nutritional care with great results. Some of these first children are children with HIV Aids, special children with disabilities, and orphaned and abandoned children. We are focusing now on going out into more remote areas of the Amazon jungles and into remote villages in the high Andes Mountains where children are at greatest risk and where there is typically no health care or medical aid for the poor.
I have been blessed to begin and maintain our present programs and ministry with my own personal resources which means my retirement benefits from Social Security in the USA. I have been very blessed too that some of my friends and family who know me and understand my God given dream have helped as they could, and continue to do so. I wish to acknowledge here the men of my church who meet regularly every Friday morning for fellowship and prayer, which I have been a part of for 7 years now. These men have known me since the beginning of my time in the wilderness as my Father brought me to Himself and through my present journey as servant to His children here in Peru. They have regularly made love gifts to me personally and some to the Potters Hand Foundation.
I would like to thank my friends Tom & Debbie Geary, who have taken me into their home when I make my return visits to Florida. More than that, they consider me as part of their family which is so like them as they are blessed with His spirit of Love.
I like to thank also my friend Wolf Espenhahn, who is hands and feet for this ministry back home and is helping me in so many ways.
I like to thank especially Dr. Scott Hearing, who has been a friend and spiritual mentor since our first mission together to Peru in 2004 with our church. Scott also introduced me to Medical Ministry International here in Peru which began another phase of my service here.
A Big “Thank you” also to my friends and mentors David & Eileen Leeds, Dr. Larry and Jeannie Deutschman, Bill and Patty Perrin, all Ambassadors with Reliv International, Inc. and my very dear friend Reggie Ament, Director of our Reliv Kalogris Foundation in St Louis, Mo., who, when I appealed to her with my hope to serve the children of Peru with our wonderful products said YES!
A big Thank you to the Bible study groups, the men of 1st Presbyterian Church in North Palm Beach, Florida, all my Facebook friends around the world, and my friends here in Peru without whom I could do nothing. Thank you!
That brings me to today where I have realized that to grow and to serve many, many more children here in Peru and perhaps someday in other areas of need here in South America, I completely understand that I cannot do this on my own personal resources alone. I never could. It is time that I share this dream and ministry with others who might pray for us, and perhaps answer His call to help financially in partnership either once, or on a regular, monthly basis. I must acknowledge here again those who have already made this choice to partner with us on a regular basis. I praise our Lord and thank you.
I am including with this letter of Hope a presentation which I pray will show our mission, our purpose, our goals and our needs as we strive to serve our Lord and to feed His lambs. I have answered His calling and I trust in Him, His guidance and His provision as I cast this net in Faith; as I share with you our calling.
Potters Hand Foundation2010 Please click on this link, scroll through and enjoy.
If you would like to learn more about our ministry and journey here in Peru feel free to contact me! I love hearing from friends around the world!
I also encourage you to visit our website where you see our story, our journey and many fotos of the children and the people we serve here in Peru and beyond.
Website: www.pottershandfoundation.org
Reliv Kalogris Foundation website: www.relivkalogrisfoundation.org
US phone number which rings here in Peru: 561-200-9754
Email: taylorb1@quixnet.net
Peru cell: 011-9110-2994
God Bless you and may His Peace be with you as you contemplate our ministry.
Blessed to serve,
Taylor J Benson
Founder/Director/ Servant
The Potters Hand Foundation
4521 PGA Boulevard #129
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida 33418