Joining together in God's ongoing, redemptive mission.
Vincente’s village is located at the mouth of a tributary that has several villages spread out upstream. One of them is an Asheninka community seven hours away and unreachable by the Evangelista. Vincente’s desire was to go to the village and share the gospel just like we had done in his village back in 2004.
Young indigenous churches already are beginning their own outreach efforts to other villages. This February, the fourth Shipibo Christian youth camp to be held upriver in the past two years took place, totally organized, funded and run by Shipibos.
Looking back over the past 10 years, it is wonderful to see how God has directed this partnership that started with Hershey coming alongside the Pucallpa church and has now become a strong multicultural cord of three strands made up of Shipibos, Pucallpinos and Americans working together.
For the past 10 years, Hershey Free Church has partnered with the Evangelical Missionary Church of Pucallpa (EMCP), Peru, in a joint vision to evangelize the Shipibo and several other tribes along the Ucayali River, a tributary of the Amazon River. Ricardo Hidalgo, mission pastor of EMCP, will be our guest speaker on Sunday, May [...]
The “witch doctor” is very uneasy because he is getting old, weak and afraid for his life. He has spent his whole life putting curses on people and destroying people’s lives in the village. He is afraid that villagers would now begin seeking revenge for what he has done to them. So he enters the home and asks if this Jesus he was hearing about could protect him and forgive him for all he had done to people.
At the end of January 2011, three grants were distributed from the Global Ministry Projects fund for international ministry initiatives. Read about them in this post.