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 churches preaching the biblical gospel. The villages we are taking the gospel to have been dominated by ancient paganism mixed with a mystical form of Catholicism for hundreds of years. Our prayer is to start a church planting movement where baptized believers are continually teaching others the commands of King Jesus as revealed in Scripture throughout the Andes. The long-term vision for this work is not to plant one church in Cordova, but to start a church planting movement in Cordova that will spread throughout surrounding villages.
The churches established in the Andes will be simplistic in organization and rigorously biblical in practice. All churches established must practice the ordinances of baptism and the Lord’s supper as defined by the BFM 2000. They must recognize the offices of pastor and deacon with a desire to fill these offices with men who meet the biblical qualifications. They must be committed the Great Commission, which will mean reproducing churches with their own resources throughout the Andes.
