The Potter’s Hand Foundation

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

Today was a great day for me.

A quiet morning and then I went to support my princess Aleli at her “Royal Exam” in ballet. This was her annual exam for advancement to the next level. She did super and now has two more years to study to finish her classes. So to celebrate we went to my favorite restuarant here in Lima for some lunch and ice cream. Tomorrow she will be coming into Lima and we will go to a local TV station for a competition in Spanish Flamenco, my favorite dance here. If she does well in each round she will advance to the next one. Reminds me of my days in competition dancing and also teaching country western dance back in the states.

Aleli, age 13,  never knew her father and I am blessed to be a father figure for her, to hopefully always be there for her. So I guess this means that in a few years I am going to be helping her with her higher edcuation in university. Not to mention my other young lady, Yasmin age 20 whom I am already helping with university.

Also not to forget young Cesar, age 13, that I have been sponsoring with Compassion International here in Peru for about 7 years. And as of this month I am sponsoring Cesar’s little sister Gabriela, age 5. And there is my Godson Matthew, age 2.5 and his mom, Magdalena and father Joseph.

Plus the 250 chilren that I have in my nutritional feeding programs for poor and malnourished children here in Peru. About 50 of these children are special needs kids. And I pray many more children in the years to come. I must give thanks to the Reliv Kalogris Foundation for which I am area coordinator for Peru and their supporting me with their wonderful nutritional products for children.

I am also blessed to serve in my “spare time” on multiple missions here in Peru with Medical Ministry International as we serve the poor with their spiritual and physical needs in the high Andes mountains and in the jungle. A very blessed opportunity for me to serve here in my adpoted country. I also believe that in future years I may be expanding my ministry into other countries in South and Central America and the Carribean. One day at a time though. Quite a “retirement” for me. I have always said though that one needs to retire TO something and not just from something.

Enough for now. Time to crash and be ready for the day that God has in store for me tomorrow.

Blessings to all and  LOVE- Without counting the costs!

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,

So now I have joined in this new medium of journaling (for me anyway) and sharing my adventures in Peru as I serve the children here.

This will be short as I just wish to say hello to all.

I pray everyone will bear with me as I am stretched in this beginning effort to write about this ministry I have been called to serve.

Love- Without counting the costs!

En El Nombre de Cristo,

Taylor