Mission Trip to Pachacutec Peru, January 17 to January 25, 2020    Want to be a part of something really exciting? We want anyone interested in being a part of seeing the Great Commission fulfilled to join us on our next Mission Trip to Pachacutec, Peru.    Our next trip’s dates are January 17 to January 25, 2020when it is warm in South America and cold in Ohio. The food and water are safe and the food is delicious.  The hotel accommodations are clean and the hotel is conveniently located to the mission work.  The country of Peru is safe. We have been going to this area of Peru for the past 16 years. Over 250 different people have served as short-term missionaries to Peru in these last 16 years. Contact Mike Reed at 937-231-0941 or email him at michaeltreed@sbcglobal.net for more information. 

    We have something exciting for everyone who wants to go and be a part of the Peru mission team for January of 2020. We will be having medical, dental and vision clinics. We need medical professionals and unskilled volunteers. People are needed to count pills and to escort patients to the right area.   There are opportunities for teaching adult, teen, and children’s classes at night. We will also be conducting craft, sewing, and needlework classes, assisting with children’s programs and sports programs during the day. There is always a need for volunteers to assist in building repair and construction. We also have a need for people who would like to share the Gospel.  We always have at least one interpreter for every two people who would like to be a part of this mission trip. This past January we saw over 480 people pray to receive Christ as their savior.     

 

The people of Pachacutec are very poor with an average family income of less than $3000 per year. The people are friendly and they love to visit with North Americans. Pachacutec is a very poor, densely populated area about 1-1/2 hours north of Lima, Peru. The city of Pachacutec does not have running water. Businesses and homes lack proper sewage disposal and the majority of their homes have dirt floors. The people do not have proper medical care. The more than 500,000 people of Pachacutec barely have enough money to feed their families each day.  

Mike Reed, Mark and Pat Tompkins went to Peru in July of 2002. While there, Mike Reed met Pastor Felipe Medina who asked Mike if he would help build a church for the Lord and the people of Pachacutec.  Mike Reed and Pat Tompkins did what they could to help the church in Pachacutec to start growing.  Mike did not promise Pastor Felipe that we would help him build the church, but told Pastor Felipe that he would ask his Pastor.  Stan Ballard was the Pastor of First Baptist Kettering at that time and Pastor Stan had gone to Peru the previous July with Mike Reed and Mike’s son, David.  When Mike brought Pastor Felipe’s request to Pastor Stan, Pastor Stan said, “I think you should build it”.  Pastor Stan then said, “I think that there are some men who would go with you and do the construction.”         The brick construction of the church began in January of 2004 with a team of 10 men and 2 women. This team was led by Mike Reed, Mike Hart, and Mark Tompkins. The team went to Pachacutec to pour the foundation of the church.  Many people from First Baptist Kettering have helped with its construction over the years.

The church is located in sight of the Pacific Ocean. Today the church stands three stories tall. The building has a church side and a school side.  The church side is on the left. On the first floor is the sanctuary.  On the second floor is a Sunday school meeting area, a sewing and craft room, a store room and bathrooms. The third floor of the church side has the kitchen, fellowship hall, and the Pastor’s quarters.  

The school side of the building is on the right. On the first floor is an auditorium and a classroom.  The first floor also has a kitchen for feeding members of the community.  The second and third floors are currently being used for Sunday School classes.  Much of the school remains unfinished.  There are plans to put in bathrooms on all three floors of the school side.    

            First Baptist Kettering’s mission church continues to fulfill “The Great Commission” by seeing people continually giving their hearts to Christ and being baptized.  The mission church also has regularly scheduled classes for all ages to teach the Peruvians the “Word of God”.  The adults, teens, and children are growing in their Christian faith because of continued efforts of mission teams and support from the First Baptist Kettering. The mission church in Pachacutec, Peru also is working to start new evangelical churches nearby, based on the tenants of “The Great Commission”.