Hello everyone,
To all my friends and family in the United States, Peru, Canada, the UK, and around the world I wish to extend my hopes to all of you for a very
Merry Christmas and a prosperous, purposed and joyful New Year.

Remembering the reason for the season, the birth of Jesus Christ; Savior, Lord, Teacher and Friend.

En El Nombre de Cristo with love,
Taylor
www.pottershandfoundation.org

“Little children, let us stop saying we love people; let us really love them, and show it by our actions.”
1 John 3:18 (LB)

Hola Everyone,
It is now December already and I am back in Lima for a rest after completing my last medical ministry mission with Medical Ministry International here in Peru.
Our last mission was in the beautiful Cusco area about one hours flying time southeast of Lima. We spent one week serving the poor in the Cusco area and one week further up in the mountains in more remote areas.

A wonderful experience with a terrific bunch of folks who came down from the USA and Canada to serve here. Some of these folks come to Peru regularly to serve with MMI here in Cusco and other areas of Peru. Some of you who will be receiving this letter were here and I want to take a moment to say hola and I truly enjoyed all of you and spending this time here with you and the special people of Peru we served with.

I stayed one more week in Cusco after the completion of the mission so I could travel 4 hours south to Ayaviri to join up with another MMI team doing a physical therapy mission for the poor. This was an incredible experience for me too as it was my first physical therapy mission. To serve the poor with special handicaps was very special. Especially for me were the children. The poor have very little resources to deal with their handicaps and especially to deal with the needs of their special children. It was a small team of 5 people who were involved in this mission and they did an awesome job. I was very blessed to be a part of it for a couple of days.

I want to jump back in time a bit to the missions before the Cusco mission.  I was involved in two missions actually in October. One week in Ayaviri and then two weeks on our MMI extreme mission to some very remote villages on the far side of the Valle del Colca in Arequipa.

Both outstanding missions again with two great teams of volunteers in very different settings.

I am enclosing some notes from my extreme mission here that I had written previously. This was a tough mission as we had to hike for just about the whole two weeks at high altitudes to reach some pretty remote areas with our medical team. Again some of those people will be reading this letter so a special hola to you too.
I want to state first that this story is also about the wonderful people who live up in these remote areas. It is amazing to witness and experience life as these people are living it. They are a wonderful people and I am so blessed to know them and to be a part of their life’s experience. I look forward to going back there next year.

Previous notes:   Some have read these notes before so I hope you will understand and be patient with me.

Hi everyone,
I hope you are all well today.

I have just completed another two week mission yesterday. My second in three weeks.
I am now back in “civilization” in Arequipa now resting and recuperating from my extreme mission up in the Valle del Colca.
An awesome adventure in very remote and high villages. It will take me some time to absorb everything and to tell the story well.
Mostly I enjoyed the people up there and of course the kids.

I had some trials of my own too. On our way to our second village we had to hike 8 hours up over a mountain pass. We topped out walking at about 15,o00 feet. Awesome.
Then on our way down to Tocallo I hurt my knee. I guess I strained it and then it got worse. So my friend Tania provided her scarf and mi amigo Vincente tied up my knee so I could keep going down. No other options as the trail was too steep to ride the mules. About anther two or more hours of going down to the village. The last bit was in the dark which was even more interesting. Tocallo was our most remote place and is very beautiful. I believe this place and about 25 kids will be another nutritional program for me in 09. With my products going there on burros in April or so. So I will be going back there again over the years as I build my site coordinator program.

Then on Tuesday last as we were going from Tapay to our last village of Llatica I had another experience. I was riding a mule on another 8 hour hike as my knee was still a problem. But as I was descending on a steep part next to the edge of about a 1000 foot drop my mule decided to start bucking and running. Not a good thing. I was trying to get him either rode out or stop him but he threw me. I went down and hit my head and my upper left side on some rocks next to the edge. And my right foot was still hung up in the stirrup when he stopped. So I just laid there for a bit while my friends got me untangled. I got a cut on my head and a bit of bruising.  But I was very fortunate it was not a worse situation. My nurse friend, Karen, who had also injured a knee and strained her ankle, who was riding a mule behind me got me cleaned up and bandaged. She said I had an 8 second ride so I guess I won ????. So the mule and I had a talk and I got back on him to finish the journey to the next village. At least until I had to walk again when the trail got too steep to ride the mule.

After our last clinic day in Llatica we had a 5 hour hike out to the bottom of the deepest canyon in the world where we crossed the Colca River on a footbridge and met our ride out back to Cabanaconde, Chivay and back to Arequipa.
A lot more to tell but for a later time. I am staying in beautiful, sunny Arequipa for one more week before I go back to Lima. I will be traveling with an MMI project director, Lilia, down to ilo to visit one of my “patients” and mid week to Ayaviri to help Lilia prepare for another mission there in 09.

Tonight I will treat myself to a great hot chocolate in my favorite place here in Arequipa with some friends.

So I hope you guys are all doing well.

I will try to be in phone contact with everyone soon as I work out my calling opportunities here in Arequipa.

In His service I am,
Taylor

End of note:

I will touch on just a couple more things and I will close.
On my return visit to the states last August I went to St Louis to attend the 20th Anniversary conference of Reliv International, Inc., the wonderful company that through it’s Reliv Kalogris Foundation is providing my Potter’s Hand Foundation with their nutritional products for children that I am bringing here to Peru.
At this conference I was humbled and blessed to be named as an area coordinator for Peru for the Kalogris Foundation. With the support of the Kalogris Foundation in supplying my foundation with their children’s nutritional products I have been doing 4 pilot programs with impoverished and special needs children.  These include 32 orphan children with HIV Aids and other children with illnesses such as Cerebral Palsy, mental retardation, paralysis and other special needs. These types of children are typically abandoned here at birth if their parents are just too poor to be able to support them. Also other children who are very malnourished in their formative years. And I am happy to report that these children are responding very well to this nutritional care and this is a hope for them that they would not have if it were not for the heart of the Reliv Kalogris Foundation and all the Reliv distributors involved who make all this possible to over 43,000 children daily around the world.

I am blessed also to be striving to expand this ministry to 250 children receiving daily nutritional care for a full year in 2009 again with the product support from The Reliv Kalogris Foundation. This is an amazing journey as well for me here in Peru and I am happy to be a part of this wonderful ministry of Love and caring.

I will close for now as I have been trying to catch up on a few months worth of stories. So thanks to all of you who are praying for me and this ministry I have been called to and also thanks to those who have helped and are financially helping the Potter’s Hand Foundation be the hands and feet in feeding these lambs of God. I can’t do this alone and I am blessed with those who understand this calling and are a part of it.

One more note, please. I want to recognize some local Peruvian’s here who have also been a huge help to me in getting this ministry off the ground and without whom I can not succeed. My special thanks to Diana Rivera, my friend, interpreter and assistant who has taken this ministry on as her own. And also a special thanks to Monica G, who has been a great friend and is supporting this ministry with a portion of her church tithe every month now. I wish to mention my friends from my Cusco MMI mission, Carol and Roger Hall who are interested in helping also. And I must mention all my friends back in my home church in Florida and especially to the men of my church who have been such a spiritual, prayerful and financial help to me.
And to my son, Taylor Scott I wish to say I love you son and I hope to see you again soon.

And last I will mention the One who is always first.  I am so very thankful to God my Father for loving me and helping me understand that my life has such value that I am called to feed His children. God bless you all.

Merry Christmas to all and a very Blessed new year in 2009.

En El Nombre de Cristo with love,
Taylor

“Little children, let us stop saying we love people; let us really love them, and show it by our actions.”
1 John 3:18 (LB)

Hola Everyone,

I want to take this opportunity to wish all my friends back home a very happy Thanksgiving day tomorrow the 27th of November. And to all my friends in other countries as well a very blessed and joyful day.

I have been so very busy on my personal ministry to bring nutritional feeding programs to the children of Peru and also serving with Medical Ministry International on missions around Peru I have not shared with you my newsletter in the last few months.

It has been a blessed and busy time and not without some personal trials and adventures which I will try to share soon in another letter. This is just a time to share my thanks to all and to my Lord for this incredible journey I am on.

God Bless you all,
Hasta el próximo encuentro,
En El Nombre de Cristo with love,
Taylor

“Little children, let us stop saying we love people; let us really love them, and show it by our actions.” 1 John 3:18 (LB)

Hola Everyone,
I hope everyone is well these days and that those who are being affected by all the storms in the US are ok.

I am now back in my adopted country of Peru after spending the month of August back home in the  good ole USA.
I enjoyed my time back home with all my friends, my church family and my Reliv family in Florida and also attending the international conference in St Louis, Missouri with Reliv International and the Reliv Kalogris Foundation.

That experience was terrific and also a special blessing for me in my hopes and efforts to bring the Reliv Kalogris Foundation nutritional feeding programs here to the poor and malnourished children of Peru. I was blessed to be recognized as an area coordinator for the Kalogris Foundation in Peru in their efforts to “Nourish Our World” and to help children in need around the world.

This is a wonderful opportunity and I am humbled by it and also grateful that my service can continue and hopefully grow here in Peru and perhaps in other South and Central American countries, and the Caribbean.

I am totally committed to this ministry even as I recognize I am still growing in my personal faith and my walk with God in His plan and purpose for my life.  It is so awesome to believe and to trust in Him who is so much bigger than I could imagine.

I have been blessed also with many friends and a growing family here in Peru. I have friends here in Peru who have come along beside me and are helping me to reach out to the poor, something I could not do on my own. I am happy and looking forward to be continuing my service with Medical Ministry International on three more missions this year with a terrific bunch of people. I join my friends with MMI in early October for the next two missions with the last one in November in the beautiful area of Cuzco.

So I thank you all for being my friends and I covet most of all your prayers as I continue to walk in faith and trust in something so much greater than myself.

I will be updating my website soon and I expect I will have many more wonderful fotos of the people I will meet and the places I will explore in the months ahead.  I welcome any correspondence and look forward to hearing from everyone.

God Bless you all,
Hasta el próximo encuentro,
En El Nombre de Cristo con amor,
Taylor

O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you: my soul
thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and
weary land where there is no water.     Psalms 63:1

Hola Everyone,

It is July 4th and I am back in Lima from six weeks of missions with Medical Ministry International in various parts of Peru. It is a quiet night for me here as I am resting up and preparing to go out again in one week for another mission in Arequipa. And as I try to write this newsletter I confess I am a bit down, somewhat lonely and tired. For me this happens almost every time I come back here from a mission. I am happiest when I am out there, serving our Lord and blessing and being blessed by the people we serve. Forgive me a moment for sharing this with you. I will do my best to share some of this without being too lengthy.

I just came off of three two week missions. The first one was in the Amazon jungle, in a frontier town named Puerto Maldonado. This town is in the extreme eastern edge of the jungle only a few hours by boat from the border with Bolivia. It borders on two rivers, the Tambopata and the Madre de Dios. It was a great mission with a great team of people from the USA & Canada. The foto you see above is of a woman I met named Sandy. She is twenty three years young and is confined to her bed with her disease. There is much need here in the jungle with disease and malnourishment as in many other  parts of Peru.

My second two week mission was back into the high Andes in the state of Arequipa. Quite a contrast and a big climate and environmental change for me.
We were in the Valle del Colca area very close to Ampato, a beautiful high snow capped volcano at over 20,000 feet elevation. We served in Huanca, Taya and Lluta, very small and remote villages in the area. Again a terrific new team of people from Canada, the USA and one young doctor from England. Beautiful days and very cold nights. We had no heat sources were we were staying and rarely hot water. In Lluta no hot water at all and as my friend Dennis would say the shower water was “glacial”, which in fact it was. All the water for irrigation and for other uses comes from the glacier and snow melt of Ampato. There is an amazing system of irrigation established here over the centuries. If it were not for this irrigation the people could not live as they do in this otherwise cold and dry place.
We had a great mission again and helped many poor people with medical, dental and eye needs.

My third two week mission was in the beautiful city of Arequipa itself. The second largest city in Peru but only a tenth the size of Lima at around 800,000 people.
It is called the white city because many of the old cathedrals and buildings were built with the white volcanic stone from the surrounding volcanoes.

There are three volcanic mountains in a row on the north and eastern  side of Arequipa; Chachani, Misti and Picchu Picchu. And awesome place and my favorite city in Peru. And my favorite part of Peru is in the area up in the high Andes of the Valle del Colca. Mostly up to a place called Sibayo and Callalli. Awesome places and people out there. Places like The Valley of Fire, The valley of the Volcanoes and the Kingdom of the Condors. Suits my adventurous nature.
And again another great team of volunteers from the USA, Canada and England. I met some other poor people in need in Arequipa and ilo that I am working with in my own ministry of long term nutritional care which is a great complement to MMi’s short term ministry of providing medical and spiritual care for the poor.

I go out again on 12 de julio on another two week mission to Arequipa. This time it is a very major eye care ministry for the poor. And I will be happy to have some friends from my own church in Florida coming down to serve. I look forward to seeing them and serving with them very much.

My next adventure is I am coming home to Florida for the entire month of August. I have not been home since February. I also will be going to St Louis in mid month to attend an International conference with Reliv International, Inc. and the Reliv Kalogris Foundation. This wonderful group has been a blessing to me and has provided the nutritional product to do pilot programs here in Peru. Another opportunity for me to see my extended Reliv family again. I hope to also visit my son, Taylor Scott in Colorado before I head back to Peru the 1st of September. Hola Ty and Faith.

I could go on for a lot more but I will say adios for now. Thank you for allowing me to share this with you even though as I mentioned earlier I am still finding it difficult to say it all. I was very much affected by the people and their needs here as I am compelled by love for them. The poor are greatly blessed by the hearts of the many who sacrifice to come here to meet that need and share love with the people. I took many fotos of course and if you wish you can see some of them on the photo page of this website.

So until we meet again as the song goes.

Hasta el próximo encuentro,
En El Nombre de Cristo with love,
Taylor

“Little children, let us stop saying we love people; let us really love them, and show it by our actions.”
1 John 3:18 (LB)

Hola Everyone,
I have just returned to Lima from my second mission with Medical Ministry International.
We went to the Valle del Colca and words can’t do justice to the beauty and the majesty of this mountainous canyon area.
Nor can words properly describe the wonderful people that live there. There is much poverty that has been there for centuries
but for the most part the people are wonderful, resilient and very hospitable to us. I will be putting up my fotos on my website soon and for me the fotos tell a more complete and compelling story of the place and the lives of the native peoples there.
I am very happy that I go back there again for two more missions this year.

My next mission is in two weeks to Puerto Maldonado, which is in the jungle near the border of Brazil. A very different environment and I am sure to learn much more there about a different culture of native peoples.

My main purpose for this letter is to share with you again about my own personal ministry here to help the poor children and the ancient ones of Peru.
One of the reasons I am happy serve with the wonderful people and ministry of MMI is that through my service with them I am finding need and opportunity to further my own ministry of bringing the Reliv Kalogris Foundations nutritional feeding programs to impoverished children and the old ones in this beautiful country.

I am blessed that the very first shipment of our nutritional products has safely arrived in the Puerto de Callao in Lima after a bit of delay.
My friend and helper, Dr. Julio Rosas and his foundation, International Ministry of Development, is acting as the end receiver of the donations and has also put up the necessary financial deposits of guaranty with SUNAT, the Peruvian governmental authority.

My immediate task and need is to pay the fees to the companies that manage and store the shipments until they can be picked up.
As most of you know I have been exploring this God given dream to serve here and to bring the nutritional feeding programs here for a little over a year now, since I first moved here to Lima based on my faith in the Lord that He is guiding me. He has helped me, provided for me and protected me here as I explored the impoverished areas and I was blessed to meet local people who are helping me help their own people in need.

I am doing this as well as beginning a secondary ministry to help poor children with secondary education all on my personal income which consists at this time of my Social Security payments from my early retirement. I have learned much from this including blessings from another ministry, Crown Financial Ministry.

But now I must ask for help which is also a big spiritual growth for me.
Our Lord doesn’t make Lone Rangers and I can’t do this ministry alone. I am in need right now of $2,500.00 US to get my shipment from the Port and into my free warehouse facility so that I can implement the two pilot programs here in Lima.
If you are led to be a part of this effort and can help it would be a huge blessing. I can be contacted via the contact form on this website. Or I would love to chat with anyone via my home phone here in Lima - 011-511-255-7970 or my cell- 01-99110-2994

If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to share with me. I also long to hear from my extended Reliv family, my church family and my many friends back home. And I want to say hola to my son, Taylor Scott and his amiga, Faith. Love you guys and I hope to see you in August when I visit back home.

One last comment which is very important for me. In my journey with Christ, my reaching out for help is like a final healing from my past hurts and my fears.
When I send this out by pushing the send button, no matter the outcome, I am free. Thank you to all my friends and family for loving me and understanding that I am His child as He heals me, helps me and empowers me to serve others.

God Bless you all,
Hasta el próximo encuentro,
En El Nombre de Cristo with love,
Taylor

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

Hola everyone,
I am sending out this short message to share my first two week mission with Medical Ministry International to the communities of Moquegua and Ilo in the south of Peru. Thirty wonderful people from the USA and Canada and two young dental students from England.
We ministered to many smaller communities of poor people with General medicine, Opthamology, Dental care, Pediatrics, Integrated Health care and many surgeries.
I haven’t had time to post any foto’s of this trip yet but I hope to get them to my website soon (see my photo’s page for photo’s of my journeys).

I share with you now one foto that is special to me. A beautiful encounter with a young mother and her child. We had some moments together on a street corner after church services. I wish I had gotten their names.

There was also a young boy in Ilo that I met and that MMI and my own ministry are hoping to help. He is twelve years young and has a very difficult skin disease all over his body. He can barely use his hands. But he has a good spirit in his affliction. He is “Mayor” or President of his school class and wants to be a singer when he grows up. We hope and pray that we will be able to help him overcome his disease.I had expected a shipment of nutritional products from the Reliv Kalogris Foundation to have arrived here in Lima when I returned from my trip but the boat had not arrived. It is due now on April 21 and I look forward to beginning this ministry to two groups of children here in Lima when I return from my second mission with MMI.

I leave tomorrow, Friday, for Arequipa to join another team and we will serve in the Colca Valley for two weeks. Colca Valley is a beautiful area with many names. The Valley of Fire, The Valley of the Volcanoes and The Kingdom of the Condor to name a few. It is a canyon area with a river that has carved out the canyon in a geographic fault that drops down to 3,400 meters plus and runs for more than 200 km in length. The canyon is more than twice as deep as our Grand Canyon in Arizona. And there is actually another canyon area less well known nearby that is even deeper. I hope to visit this area, the Cotahuasi Canyon soon.

This area has been inhabited since pre-Inca times, with many small, remote villages where MMI provides their ministry of medical care and Christian love for the indigenous peoples there. And one of the areas that I hope to serve with my ministry through my foundation, The Potter’s Hand Foundation and the help of the Reliv Kalogris Foundation. And with your help, as I have only been able to serve here by the grace of God and the help of friends who believe in me, His purpose for my life and for my joy in serving Christ and the children of Peru.

Until I return from The Valley of Wonders,
Hasta el próximo encuentro,
En El Nombre de Cristo with love,
Taylor

“Little children, let us stop saying we love people; let us really love them, and show it by our actions.” 1 John 3:18 (LB)

Hola everyone,
I am pleased to send out this newsletter at this time to share with you some great and wonderful news about my hopes to provide nutritional supplementation here to the children of Peru. In short, the shipment for a years supply of products from the Reliv Kalogris Foundation for the two pilot programs here in Lima has “left the dock” so to speak. The shipment is due at the Puerto del Callao in Lima April 10th.

And another blessing is I have obtained a safe and secure warehousing facility for the products at no cost from another wonderful organization I have developed a relationship with. A huge help already to my budget needs for this year of ministry as warehousing costs were the greatest expense.

For insights into the heart of my friend’s ministry I include a link to her website- www.madresadolescentes.org
Carmela is caring for abandoned and abused young girls who have babies here in Lima. She is providing a safe home for the girls, teaching them to sew and knit so that they can earn a living, teaching them to how care for their children, how to share responsibilities, maintain a home and many other things. And very importantly helping them develop a sense of self worth that they can share with their own children.

So I am happy to adjust my budget needs for the feeding programs downward for this year.
Foundational needs are now just for dock fees, etc., when the shipment arrives and transporting the products to the warehouse and monthly deliveries to the two programs……… $800.00 estimated

Secondly I would like to break down the Medical Ministries International missions I will be serving on for this year. Nine missions total.
The first of which I will begin March 28th traveling to a small remote coastal village in the south of Peru.
Budget average for each mission…

• Mission fees to participate $300.00
• Insurance coverage $ 40.00
• Transportation to mission area $110.00
• Misc expenses $ 80.00
• Total per mission $530.00

Below I have provided a list of the missions and I ask for your prayers for them and if you desire to help and/or be a part of any particular mission with me “in absentia” you can click on the How you can help link and you will be led to the secure donation page.

Or perhaps a group of 2, 3 or more people might like to sponsor a particular mission, educational opportunity or the nutritional program.

Medical Ministries International - Missions 2008

• Camana, Peru March 29- April 12 Medical/Dental/Surgical <consider this mission trip as funded!
• Colca Valley April 19- May 3 Medical/Dental/Health
• Puerto Maldonado May 17- May 31 Medical/Dental/Health
• Huanca/Lluta May 31- June 14 Medical/Dental/Health
• Arequipa June 14- June 28 Medical/Dental/Surgical
• Arequipa July 12- July 26 Medical/Eyes/Surgical- <consider this mission trip as funded!
• Travel to USA July 31- August 31
• St Louis, Mo August 14-August 18 Reliv International Conference
• Ayaviri Oct 04- Oct 11 Medical/Dental/Surgical
• Choco Oct 11- Oct 25 Medical/Dental/Health
• Cuzco Nov 8- Nov 22 Medical/Dental/Health

I also am praying for funding to return to the USA for the month of August where I will attend a conference with Reliv International and the Reliv Kalogris Foundation, where I look forward to reporting about my pilot programs and discuss opportunities to expand this nutritional outreach in the future.

This leaves the financial assistance that I have been providing for three (3) Peruvian young people that I hope to continue even though it is a strain on my present personal income. I hope to transfer this wonderful ministry into The Potter’s Hand Foundation as it is an integral part of the hopes I have to serve the children of Peru and beyond.

To date I am happily providing tuition and schooling help for:

• Cindy Magdalena Olivari, age 24, mother of bebe Matthew, age one year- finishing her last year in university here in Lima studying Psychology.- $120.00 monthly
• Yasmin Etelvina Cedano Tarmeno, age 18, in her first year in university studying International Business Development. She is the first young person in her family EVER to go to university. She is a very intelligent, focused young lady. $120.00 monthly tuition- which actually covers half of her tuition but the best I can do at the moment.
• Aleli Elizabeth Moscoso Mesia, age 11. Aleli is a very special and talented young lady. Her grandmother is doing a very good job of raising her, though they are very poor. Monthly school costs for a non public school. $70.00
• This is in addition to my sponsorship of Cesar Rios Gonzales, age 12, whom I sponsor through Compassion International, a very wonderful and effective ministry. I have visited young Cesar and his family many times now and have observed the functioning and work of Compassion’s projects for children.

I am so blessed and happy to be serving the children here in Peru. I happily borrow the vision statement of Compassion International which is to release children from poverty in the name of Jesus Christ. And doing this from the bottom up so to speak.

Providing nutritional supplementation so they can grow and develop to the best of their health and mental potential.

Providing good educational opportunities so they have the best hope to make good life choices for themselves and future families.

Providing exposure to possible vocations and/or entrepreneurial opportunities.

All the while loving them and showing them the hope we have in our relationship with Jesus Christ.

So I thank all who have been bearing with me and encouraging me in my search to be all I can be as a servant to the people and the children who are so much in need here, but who have so much potential to grow.

En El Nombre de Cristo with love,
Taylor

“Little children, let us stop saying we love people; let us really love them, and show it by our actions.” 1 John 3:18 (LB)

Hola everyone,
Well, I am happy to be back in Peru again after a visit to Florida for the month of February. It was a wonderful trip; wonderful to see and share with all my friends and church family there.
I especially enjoyed the fellowship I had with the different men’s groups and the home bible study groups I am involved with.
I also need to bring special attention to my friends Tom & Debbie Geary who have taken me into their home when I am back in the states and who truly treat me as family. And my friend Wolf who is looking out for me while I am gone, taking care of my car, checking my mail and forwarding things I need. God bless you guys.

I also want to share that I made very good progress with my hope to bring nutritional feeding programs to the children in need in Peru. It was necessary for me to go to the office of the Consul General of Peru in Miami to have a letter describing my program as a charitable effort approved by that office. I was blessed to meet with the Consul General Adscrito who spent time with me as I laid out my ministry to him. He was very helpful and even offered to send my approved documents back to the proper office in Lima by diplomatic courier. That saved me a lot of snail mail time.

So I am on the brink of getting everything in place to receive the Reliv Kalogris Foundation’s donation of a one years supply of our great products for the HIV Aids orphan children in The Congregacion de Nuestra Senora de la Caridad, Del Buen Pastor Posadita and the children, ages from new born to three years, who are in the Santa Monica Women’s Prison with their mothers in Chorrillos, Lima, Peru. Also another 30 expectant mothers there who will give birth soon. A great beginning for what I hope will be a growing ministry to serve the children of Peru and beyond in South and Central America.

The year ahead
I am also blessed to be serving this year with Medical Ministry International in nine (9) medical/dental/surgical missions around Peru. These one and two week missions start for me in late March and finish up in late November. I have served with MMI before and have been very blessed to experience their hearts for the poor people with medical and spiritual needs and to be associated with some wonderful people from around the world who serve with MMI. You can download a schedule of my Medical Ministries Missions for the coming year here as a .pdf document.

So I am happily committing my life to God’s service here and I can’t imagine doing anything else. It is a challenge in many ways but I am confidant and trusting God in all things as I step out in faith each day.I also realize that God doesn’t send out Lone Rangers to accomplish His ends and I certainly realize I can not and I do not want to operate alone in this.I have been blessed with friends here in Peru who believe in me and are helping to move this ministry forward. I also am in need of and very grateful for all your prayers for me and for this ministry.

I would like to outline the needs I have to accomplish all this ministry this year so that you might pray for me that God Himself will fill the net I am casting out in faith.

First the needs for the feeding programs here this year will be to warehouse the products in a proper place and for the transport of the monthly products to the two recipient ministries. Transport is very reasonable here though quite an adventure in itself.
I have no needs other than these as I have in place a very competent volunteer infrastructure to facilitate the programs.

Secondly are the financial needs to serve with MMI on the nine missions this year. Total number of weeks involved is 16. I have attached my itinerary for the year for your review. My other need here is transportation to join each of the teams as they come in to serve. I will be traveling by bus for all the missions except one which is in the Amazon Jungle and is too remote to get to effectively by ground transport from Cuzco. I would love to try this adventurous means but it is too risky as far as getting there on time, especially in the rainy season when it could take up to ten days overland. This is a 50 minute journey by air from Cuzco to Puerto Maldonado.

To continue I am involved with some young people living in poverty here in Lima and providing them with financial assistance for their education and welfare. Education is perhaps the greatest opportunity children who live in poverty need to break the terrible bondage of subsistence living. To have a better future and to help the next generation rise above poverty. I am helping four right now and hope to help more as my ministry here grows.

That pretty much sums up my year. I am very much looking forward to accomplishing all of this in His guidance and provision.

Oops, almost left out a very important opportunity which is when I return to the states for the month of August so I can attend the International conference for Reliv International and The Kalogris Foundation. A great experience I am looking forward to. I also hope to visit my son, Taylor Scott while I am stateside as it will be my only opportunity this whole year to see him.

To summarize here is a breakdown of the financial needs of the Potter’s hand Foundation for 2008:

• MMI Mission Projects–Project Fees & Transportation = $4,000.00
• Reliv Kalogris Children’s Feeding Projects= $3,000.00
• Foundational Educational Grants= $3,500.00

I truly appreciate all your prayers and if you are able and desire to help please check out the website for www.pottershandfoundation.org for info, my stories and links to a secure donation page as well as links to the Kalogris Foundation, Medical Ministry International and other ministries I support and serve with.

Also please feel free to send me “mail” as it is great to hear from home from friends and family.

In closing I want to thank God and all of you for your love, patience and understanding as I walk with Him in this grand adventure.
I am happiest when I am in the “trenches” and with the poor children here in Peru. It is as if I can feel God’s pleasure when I am with them.
How awesome is that. All the little ones are special to Him and now to me.

En El Nombre de Cristo with love,
Taylor

“Nothing happens but first a dream.”
We have a dream inside ourselves,
A gift to us at birth,
To guide us and protect us
On our journey on this earth.
We all have something special,
Each one of us unique.
You have to find the courage
To find the peace you seek.
So dream your dream and live your dream,
Don’t be afraid to try.
Just take your soul by the hand
And let your spirit fly.

“Little children, let us stop saying we love people; let us really love them, and show it by our actions.” 1 John 3:18 (LB)

30 de enero 2008

Hola everyone,
It is time once again for me to travel back to the USA from my adopted country of Peru. I have had many blessings these last few weeks in my hopes to bring the Reliv Kalogris Foundation nutritional feeding programs here to Peru and I am traveling back to Florida to complete a requirement there with a meeting with the Consul General of Peru in his office in Miami. A major stepping stone will be crossed there.

But I am especially happy to be going home to see all my friends, my church family and my Reliv family. I am looking forward to sharing breakfast fellowship this coming Friday morning with the men of my church, Christ Fellowship in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. The one thing I will not be able to do on this trip is to visit with my son, Taylor Scott (Ty) and Faith who live in the beautiful (snowbound) community of Telluride, Co. So I send you my love son and I will be with you in spirit and our usual medium, the NET.

I am happy to share with everyone another blessing in that the website for my foundation, The Potter’s Hand Foundation is now an official reality. I have just received the approval of my parent foundation, The Congressional District Programs, for the website. I want to thank mi amiga Laura for working with me and making this become a reality. A very great job, Laura.

So please check it out and feel free to pass it around. I will be using this site to tell the story of my service here in Peru over the years to come and in other parts of South and Central America and the Caribbean. I will be adding a foto gallery soon as I think the foto’s of the people and the children of Peru tell a story that I am still learning to express in words.
www.pottershandfoundation.org

I will be returning to Peru March 1st for another five months before I return stateside again for the month of August. I am also blessed to begin a number of medical missions here in Peru with Medical Ministries International in late March running through next November. A wonderful ministry of medical service to the poor people of Peru. You will see a link to their site on the links page of my website.

So until we meet again,
En El Nombre de Cristo with love,
Taylor

“Nothing happens but first a dream.”
We have a dream inside ourselves,
A gift to us at birth,
To guide us and protect us
On our journey on this earth.
We all have something special,
Each one of us unique.
You have to find the courage
To find the peace you seek.
So dream your dream and live your dream,
Don’t be afraid to try.
Just take your soul by the hand
And let your spirit fly.

“Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth” 1 John 3:18 (NIV)