Friends of Peru

In going down to Peru, we were connected to a woman's organization entitled 'Friends of Peru'. I met Gianina through my home church, as she has been very outspoken about her passion for this ministry through her own experience growing up in Peru.

Friends of Peru is devoted to improving the lives of the most impoverished families of Peru by providing a strong faith based education program that enables them to change their world.

Their purpose is to outreach and provide the resources necessary so that children and their families can achieve their full potential by promoting academic preparedness, leadership development, self-sufficiency, self-esteem, and the teaching the word of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Among their programs of family crisis counseling, education, skills training, business guidance and assistance, and spiritual mentorship, we were able to contribute both to training in hygiene and spiritual mentorship. The Friends of Peru website elaborates on this, as one can seek out opportunities to help. Friends of Peru

Missions Trip 2 Peru

This past summer I traveled to Peru on my own, with quite a smaller group of people. I wish that I would have had more internet access, because I think that blogging would have been a great way to keep friends updated on my trip back home, since we ran into many complications along the way pertaining to both sicknesses and governmental complications to name a few. With many great stories of our experiences in traveling and seeing God's glory time and time again I would have been able to quickly jot them down online rather than try to remember them when I was home and just had quick 5minute catch-ups with people about my trip.

Traveling

Many blogs pertain to a person's personal experiences in life. They are a great way to display your thoughts and feelings about a recent event or lesson learned in life.

My first experience with blogging was when I studied abroad in Europe for a semester and found that blogging, over email, allowed us to tell friends and family back home what we were up to in a quick and fun way. Our Europe Term's blog was: www.xanga.com/bethelu