Thoughts on Peru

This is Chris writing this one. I have just been thinking about our trip to Peru. It wasn't a vacation. It wasn't a business trip. It was an opportunity for the gospel of Jesus Christ to be preached and lived out in our lives. God has been showing me things over the past year that have changed my life radically. I guess that is why I changed my email address to jesusfreak4sure@hotmail.com several months ago. I don't care if my friends think I am a "Christiany" type person now, because if I am serious about what Christ has done in my life then I should be a picture of Christ to others. If you want to know more about my Jesus Freak lifestyle, then feel free to write me at my email address. If you read something about our trip that you want to know more about, write and we will respond. I am putting all of the photos I can on a photobucket page (which I will post once I get more photos on it). I hope that it will show that this was a great trip where lives were truly changed. Not just the people of Peru, but those of us that went on the trip.
This was my first time outside of the United States. That plane trip was an adventure itself. Trying to fit my 6'3" and 230ish lb. frame into a plane seat for 6 to 8 hours was not something that I was looking forward to. But God got me through it. Even tho I wasn't sure if I was going to survive the plane trip back to the States, since we left Lima around midnight. But I did sleep from Panama to Key West, FL so I was able to function and not loose my mind completely.
I saw the body of Christ function as one body in unity for the purpose of helping the people of Peru and get them the gospel. Our churches from Alabama and Tennesse have been working with the churches in Lima for several years and so I can see how (humanly speaking) there would be a relationship and things could be accomplished. The true test I wanted to see was how the people we brought, and the church people from Lima, were all going to work together in the new enviroment of the church in Pucallpa. The body worked as one though. There was one vision and we saw God mesh everyone together.
Well, I am going to write more at another time... I figure that once I get some pictures of our days and nights in Lima and Pucallpa I will then write more. The pics should help explain, or at least show the work that was done. Of course I will have stories to tell of the pictures I post on here..
God bless you and shine for Christ,

Chris