What are we doing in Peru?

Our present work in Peru is an effort to plant churches among the Quechua people of the Andes Mountains, where at this point there are no true gospel churches.  The villages we are engaging are dominated by Catholicism, a very pagan form of Catholicism at that.  Our prayer is to start a continued church planting movement where the gospel is preached and baptized believers are continually teaching others the commands of King Jesus as revealed in Scripture.

Our Partnership With REAP South

Our work in Peru began through a partnership with an organization known as REAP SOUTH.  Reap stand for RAPID ENTRY ADVANCE PLAN.  Reap is an arm of the IMB that helps local churches, like AABC, plant churches in places considered unreached.

Explanation of REAP South

REAP’s Vision Statement:

“That every indigenous person in every village have the opportunity to…hear the Gospel…be introduced to the saving knowledge of Christ… and become involved in a house church…one that produces more house churches!”

There are thousands of indigenous peoples throughout South America who are either “un-reached” or have no viable access to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  In order to get the good news to them in the most effective way, the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention has developed and implemented a church-planting strategy called REAP or Rapid Entry Advance Plan.

The objective of this strategy is to see indigenous, self-sufficient church-planting churches established among a particular micro-people group* (mpg) or population segment (popseg.) by recruiting, training and mobilizing U.S. churches to be the “missionary”.

The ultimate goal of the REAP strategy is to see a church-planting movement born with indigenous churches…churches that look like the culture and that have the ability to continue seeing other church-planting churches established even when the U.S. mission effort ceases to be present.

OUR GOAL FOR 2008

Our goal in 2008 is to share the gospel with as many in this district as possible and to begin a small group Bible study in Cordova.  This will also include hiking to surrounding villages such as Tigre and Huambo.  Our prayer is that God will save certain Quechua in this area who will be able to lead in establishing a local church in these villages that will be able reproduce the process in other villages.