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| In February 2006 a team of
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Carpenters For Christ went to Lima, Peru to help with the construction of
several buildings on the campus of a World-Reach Organization in the
community of Jose Galvez. This was a joint effort
between The World-Reach organization, which is headquartered in
Birmingham, Alabama and Carpenters for Christ. This project,
when complete, will have a
Pre-school, Kindergarten, Elementary, and High School, A medical clinic, a
prenatal center, a vocation skill center, staff housing
and a worship center. The pictures below are a
small sampling of the work, adventure and ministry of this project.
Below the pictures is a more detail
description of the ministry there.
Click on a picture to enlarge.
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Work as of 3/23/06
School & Office Bldg. |
Work as of 3/23/06
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Work as of 3/23/06
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Work as of 3/23/06
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Work as of 3/23/06 Ladies
Staff House |
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Diego Antonio,
Paola, Lucia, Juan Isaias & Alejandra |
Photo received 4/20/06 |
Photo received 4/20/06 |
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The School:
The school is an ongoing
ministry. Jose Galvez is a growing community. When World Reach started to
work in the community 8 years ago, the population was 90,000. Today we are
over 120,000 people and climbing. Villa Maria del Triunfo and Pachacamac,
two districts where Jose Galvez is located have over 800,000 people. In
Jose Galvez our school is the first Christian School ever. The area is very
impoverished. We have started this year with K-3 and our goal is to provide
a quality based education through 12th. Grade. The curriculum is
in English since it is the most desired language overseas. Then, and as the
Lord desires, our goal is to provide a Christian University, which will be
the first one of its kind in the Lima area of more than nine (9) million
people. Our goal is to provide a high level of Christian Education that
every child can take home and share it with their families. We are sharing
Christ and His salvation with every child which is impacting each family.
When the total school project is completed, we will have a Pre-school,
Kindergarten, Elementary, and High School. At that point, we will be
investing in the lives of approximately 2500 children per year with
Christian education. It’s amazing to see that even now the number of
parents of our K-3 students that are coming to Christ! William Carey said:
“Attempt great things for the Lord, expect great things from the Lord”. And
this is what we want to do.
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The Medical Clinic:
Education and medicine are
two of the greatest needs of the community of Jose Galvez. Our goal is to
have a medical Clinic where we can provide dental, gynecology, pediatrics,
internal medicine, pharmacy, laboratory, and an emergency room care. Also,
we will have a prenatal center where we can help pregnant girls to have
their babies instead abortion. This is a very common problem among young
girls and the need to counsel is paramount. We know that this ministry will
serve the entire community of Jose Galvez. In this community we have one
posta medica (medical post) that can only offer first aid in case of an
accident. The closest hospital is in the district of Villa Maria Del
Triunfo which is 30 minutes by bus. The people are in need of good medical
care and we want to provide high quality medical care which will open for us
a great platform to share the gospel of Jesus Christ to many people. God
has brought to our church a wonderful couple who desire to work in this type
of medical ministry. The husband is a dentist and the wife is a nurse.
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The Staff House:
God continues assembling a
gifted team of missionary men and women. Presently, we have twenty-one (21)
full time staff. These staff members are from throughout Peru. To better
serve the community needs it is necessary to move our staff to the World
Reach Campus where our Peruvian offices are located. Not only will they
live on the compound, but they will better help in our church planting
efforts, visiting the church member families and are conducting evangelistic
outreach. Some of these missionaries are the ones that God gave us as fruit
of our ministry. In short, this staff needs a place to stay. The purpose
of this project is to have these men and women close enough to reach out
with the gospel of or Lord Jesus Christ to the entire community.
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The Vocation Skill
Center:
One of the great
deceptions that many of our youth from the community has is that when they
finish high school, further education ends for them. It is so hard to
see some of the local youth try year after year to enter a university, but
fail because of lack of resources or skills. Most of them in this
stage enter a gang or, in the case of the girls, will have a baby just to
have somebody take care of them for the rest of their lives. God has
given us this vision to provide vocational training that will equip these
young people with the necessary skills that will help them to live a
productive life and contribute to society. We want to provide a center
where they can learn carpentry, construction, welding, sewing, English and
other technical careers. This is a new ministry within the entire
community and this will allow us to touch the lives of many of the youth of
Jose Galvez.
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