I am Taylor J Benson,
Founder, Director and Servant of the Potter’s Hand Foundation.
I was led to begin this ministry of helping children in need because of my experiences in Peru which began in 2003.
I came to Peru in 2003 as a member of a mission team from my home church, Christ Fellowship in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida,where we visited the children of The Posada de Amor orphanage and children’s home in Cieneguilla, Lima, Peru.
I was profoundly affected by this experience in a way I didn’t expect.
Even though the children in this home are orphans or children of parents who could not support them I found something in them that had been missing in myself. They are family. And they are living in the love of Jesus Christ.
When I returned to the ‘States’ I found that I needed to go back and I was not sure why at the time. I did go back in 2004 with my church and again on a personal journey to share Christmas with these children. I have been back many times since then and I started to think about how could I serve the children of Peru. A new dimension for me. I am also involved with a food science company in the ‘States’ that has a foundational organization that is providing nutritional supplementation to thousands of poor and malnourished children around the world.
So I have been exploring this opportunity. I have received the support of the Reliv International Kalogris Foundation, which will supply the nutritional products, to do pilot programs here in Peru.
To date I have been working with HIV Aids orphans in the Posadita Del Buen Pastor in Magdalena del Mar, Lima, Peru. And I have approval to do a program in The Santa Monica Women’s Prison here in Lima. There are about 50 young children here in this prison who must live with their mom’s if they are born there until the age of three.
And there are about thirty more pregnant women there I hope to help. A very difficult place.
So, acting on my faith and this dream to serve I came back again in March of 2007, and stayed. I have been traveling to many poor areas, meeting the children, working to learn Espanol and learning more about the wonderful people I have met.
So, a beginning! In addition to this ministry I am doing a number of medical missions here in Peru in 2008 with Medical Ministry International. An organization I have been blessed to serve with before.
In a nutshell I have fallen in love with the children of Peru and my heart is to serve them as my Lord Jesus guides me and provides for me so to do.
In His Love,
Taylor J Benson
“Yet, O Lord, You are our Father.
We are the clay, You are the Potter,
we are all the work of Your hand…”
Isaiah 64: 8