Caral - a Lenten lesson

March 2015

We visited the ancient city

Rooseveldt & Gladys

Pyramid

of Caral. The path to the pyramids are beautiful and with water.

Friday - March 20 - special delivery!

We had a bittersweet day as we cleaned up our stations and prepared to end our week with the wonderful people of CASP.  We all joined in and finished painting the children's play bus that has become a special project of Jills'. For those of us that are not artistic, this was a step outside the box. We made a three  hour round trip home visit to give a young girl a new wheelchair. This was a special way to end our wheelchair service with a trip to the edge of Peru and  observe the comings and goings of the  Pervian people. We were greeted by a very gracious mother and grandmother into their home with juice and muffins and the wheelchair fit our young student  perfectly ! Rita presented the family with a prayer shawl made by a member of her church.  We left with a gift of heavenly alfajores (pastry cookies filled with milky caramel & all dusted in powdered sugar) a treat we all have come to love.   We ended our time at CASP  with a fun party of games and dancing and snacks and cake.  We said our goodbyes with hugs & kisses and made a final trip to Wongs ( a Pervian version of Walmart). 
Our team finished this long day with our evening devotions talking about spiritual gifts and how we each thought God's love worked through us for our friends of Peru.

Randa

We are connected

Imagine being in a chair that is a 6 inches too short. You are dependent on this chair and must have it to go to school, home and out about town. You feel uncomfortable irritable and unable to sit up and participate in school.  This was Franchesca's experience. And now she has a new chair.

Chairs cannot be bought here- unless you are very wealthy and then they are orders in. We have to bring our chairs, parts and pieces- and pray for the best.

She is now sitting in the chair my son brought to Peru 2 years ago. Jeremiah's mission was to sit in the chair and bring it to Peru. Jeremiah doesn't talk (in the traditional sense). He doesn't like to be touched - he is autistic. But when we explained what he had to do to get to Peru - he did it.  He allowed himself to be patted down, he waited in line, and he allowed strangers to get close to him.
And now Franchesca has a chair!

Franchesca