Albany Short Term Mission Update July 21

Dear Friends in Christ,
Peace be with you.

This is an update from the Albany mission trip to Lima, Peru.

I do not know if you will be able to see the attached pictures, but I have included two from the mission trip.

One of the key objectives of a good mission trip is to spread the love of Christ. The pictures that I am including, show some of the interaction of the mission group with the people among whom we are working.

If you are able to, pick a person in a photo, and pray a prayer of Christ's love for that person, whether you choose one of the people in the mission group or one of the people from the Lima area.

Yesterday, en route to the destination, we walked past a work crew building a retaining wall. This is a group photo from that encounter (photo dscn2363).

Today, we drove to the Municipal District of Comas in the northern part of Lima and sanded and painted tables and benches for one of the missions (dscn2395).

Before we began work today, one of the recent graduates from the seminary gave a briefing on the recent history of the mission, and it was so powerful a testimony, that it may been one of the reasons that our bus driver and his assistant decided to help us with the sanding and painting.

Back at the convent tonight, one of the people there saw one of the photos that I took and thought that the work of the mission team today was a very good project.

Tomorrow, we go to another project.

God bless you.
In Christ,
Shaw