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that mother was faithfully supporting the visiting Christian
outreach team, Jesus drew her daughter to Himself. This is THE GOSPEL WAS SHARED
so wonderful. The love and care of Jesus is amazing, think
of all the prayer that has been offered up for her. WITH THEM AND ALL
It was an undeserved blessing to be involved. All glory FIVE BELIEVED
to God.”

Keith, Elaine and the team worked with five churches in
Lima and evangelised in numerous markets and parks, One day in Ventanilla, a district of Lima, while waiting for
as well as visiting two police stations, two hospitals and the team bus to take us to lunch, Maria, who was pulling
a school. Everywhere the Peruvians were extremely a pink suitcase and had seen our evangelism went up
friendly and open to the Gospel. to Elaine, in effect asking to be led to the Lord. Elaine
looked around for an interpreter and grabbed Valdir, a
“We worked with the Esperanza magazines, equivalent team member, who spoke good Spanish. In no time at
to our HOPE magazines, or the Chispa (Spark) magazines all Maria believed. It all happened so quickly. When we
for young people. The Esperanza magazine has the same arrived at the restaurant, Elaine said to Valdir, “Did that
format as our HOPE magazines with a selection of Psalms really happen?”
of hope, the whole of John’s Gospel, plus key Gospel
verses and a Prayer of Commitment on the inside back
cover. On the back is a space for the church to put their
details. For Peru they are obviously in Spanish and have
pictures from Peru.
We were always accompanied by an interpreter and
someone from the local church so that the new believers
could be followed up and discipled. These co-workers
too were wonderful in their support.
Since Peru is a Catholic country, it was no surprise to find
virtually everyone believed in God and knew of Jesus.
Some even claimed to know Him personally. But we quickly
learnt that the best approach was to tell our story—hardly
anyone was reluctant to listen—and then invite them to
accept Jesus to forgive their sins, receive eternal life and
thus experience hope, joy and peace. Nearly everyone
responded, “Si”, that is, “Yes”, when asked. We, or the
interpreter, would then ask them to say the Prayer of
Commitment in the Esperanza or Chispa magazine.
In a plaza outside a local Town Hall in Independencia, a
district in Lima to the north, we met four young men on
their lunch break together with their boss. It transpired
they were cleaners at the Town Hall. The Gospel was
shared with them and all five believed. The photo (top of
page) shows Michael (another team member), Carlos (the
boss), Junior, Jefferson, Ibsen, Franklin, Keith and Elaine.

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