Hola amigos,
I am back in my apt in Lima now after our MMI mission to serve the people of the Valle del Colca in Arequipa. It was a great mission though one of the hardest ones I have served on. We had many challenges but we were blessed to serve about 1,400 people in 5 days. General medicine, Dental, Optometry, Integrated health and many spiritual counseling sessions and about 50 salvations.
I did get to visit one of our nutritional programs but missed visiting 2 more because of timing conflicts. This is a very good example of my hope to have my own transportation and I can balance my ministry and my service with MMI.
I will not be doing the MMI jungle mission to Puerto Maldonado in the Madre de Dios this month. I need to focus my time and resources on completing my ONG here in Lima so I can release and receive our next shipment of children’s products by around the first of June or so.
This is pretty critical for me. My ONG The Potters Hand- Sirviendo a Niños y Ancianos del Perú is a reality but I need to get my RUC and APSI numbers so I can receive our products from our Potters Hand Foundation via the Reliv Kalogris Foundation and also raise partnerships with Peruvian folks here to fund this part of my efforts here.
I need also to travel throughout June and visit all 14 of our programs now in four different states of Peru; Lima, Ayacucho, Apurimac and Arequipa. This is so I can evaluate our programs and make my quarterly report to the Kalogris Foundation. Very close to 400 children now praise God. So I am praying mightily that I will have a vehicle to use to make this three week trip in June, finishing in early July. Either an MMI vehicle or something else as God my Father might provide. This would include participating in our MMI mission in Ayacucho at least in part.
In July I will be doing the MMI eye mission and will be back in Lima just 4 days before I come home again for my R&R, to visit and share with all my friends and church family and to go to conference in St Louis to share with folks there.
I am praying that soon I will have been blessed with sufficient partners who would bless this ministry with a good budget so we might grow to serve more children here in Peru. With wonderful partnerships I am about 1/3 of the way to meeting my $1,200.00 monthly budget needs. Soon I pray that I might use some of my own funds to better equip my own needs here and also to help my Aleli with her educational and other needs. Blessed to have family here.
The foto attached is of a full moon setting over the Mountains in the Valle del Colca at 6:30 in the morning. Beautiful!!
Have a very blessed day amigos,
Taylor
PS: I am also blessed that I will be purchasing a rough terrain wheelchair for little Carolay next week. She is one of our kids who was born with spinal bifida. I have sent out her story and fotos before. She is 4 now. She will never walk but she is very bright and has a beautiful spirit. I had put her story out with friends and a woman who heard about it has been communicating with me and she has donated funds for Carolay. The wheelchair is $170.00 so I will also get Carolay some other needs. I want to get her some educational toys for example. Her future is in her mind and her spirit, not in her disabilities.
I hope to help her for years to come as she grows and develops into the young person God the Father has planned for her. I will have many fotos of this blessing and I will share them soon.