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Video: Latin America: “Ministry at Street Level”
What’s your perspective on the Latin world? It may depend on how close you are to it. ReachGlobal Latin America/Caribbean has the privilege to work on the street level — to see the vibrance, beauty and hope as well as the great needs. We have the opportunity to show the love of Jesus to the Latin and [...]
1000 Words: Acting Out The Gospel
Teens from Hershey Free Church in Pennsylvania bring the gospel to life through a skit during a two-hour evangelism program in a Shipibo village located in the Peruvian Amazon. In August, nine youth from Hershey partnered with 16 Peruvian youth to share the gospel of Christ in nine villages along the Rio Mazaray. Photo credit: [...]
Lighting a Different Fire
IRM brings gospel, counseling to emergency responders December 29, 2001: The Mesa Redonda shopping district in the center of Lima, Peru, was packed with people. Vendors lined the pathways with every kind of merchandise imaginable. Crowds of shoppers, mostly poor, made navigating the streets a challenge. Then, chaos. It took one firework and just minutes [...]
Moving Latin America Pictures: Service Opportunity
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what about a video? Help ReachGlobal Latin America strategically tell the story of God’s work through the creation of short promotional videos. Capture the true spirit of the culture, the people and the ministry in places like Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; San José, Costa Rica; or Mexico City, Mexico. ReachGlobal [...]
Easter Reflections From Tarma
It’s not Jesus plus anything. Not Jesus plus good works. Not Jesus plus confirmation in the Catholic Church. It’s Jesus alone who saves. As a missionary in Latin America, though, I’m frequently reminded that the gospel is often muddled in a stew of biblical and unbiblical practices – and sometimes it’s really hard to tell [...]
The First of Many
The river carried them upstream. Past the fishermen reeling in the daily catch, past the women scrubbing yesterday’s laundry, past the girls gathering the day’s water supply. As everyone went about their daily routine, they continued along the Ucayali River to the village of Ahuaypa, Peru, for something new and exciting. In Ahuaypa, the Shipibo [...]
Just Like Me
On the inside, Tamie felt trapped under a nagging sense of inadequacy. On the short-term mission trip to Peru, she saw qualities and gifts in her teammates that eluded her. “I’ll never be like them,” she thought. “I’m not book smart.” On the outside, though, Tamie was cheerful, not inhibited by expectations for the trip [...]
Upriver to Reach the Unreached
Photos and story by Dick R., Wisconsin Nueva Italia resembles nothing so much as a classic frontier town from a B-grade Western movie. It lies on a wide spot in the Ucayali River, three days by slow boat upriver from the city of Pucallpa, Peru. There is no other way to get here. When you [...]
Second Chance to Share the Gospel
A recent short-term team to Tarma, Peru, saw firsthand the power of the gospel word combined with living life in a gospel-driven community of believers. Read team leader Mark’s story below: Surprise encounter “Mark! Mark!” Standing outside the town coliseum in Tarma, Peru, on our first day of ministry in June, I heard someone calling [...]
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