November's 1st Update - by John Hendee

This will be the first real update since the Board of Directors for Project New Hope International has returned from Peru. One area that I feel the need to bring you up to speed on is winning souls for the Kingdom of God. I keep getting good reports from Mike in Peru. We have been and are making some huge changes in the team in Peru and those changes are starting to bring significant results already. Recently I was working with Mike and Danell on getting the Ambassador training program working well. They have taken it to heart. They are both great Ambassadors!!! They have lead many people to Christ in their time in Peru. But as new field team leaders they decided that they wanted to make it a goal and strategy to train every new Christian how to use the Peace Treaty. I learned years ago that the first things you teach new Christians is what they will do for the rest of their life. In many places the first thing we teach them is to 1) sit and listen in a class or service 2) become a teacher of those who sit and listen. We want new Christians to learn how to share their faith so they will be doing that the rest of their life and be equipped to carry out the great commission.

SSSOOO…

It is starting to take affect. In August our team had 35 people accept Christ and be baptized. They did it in pools, lakes and the ocean. We hope to put our team on the road to leading hundreds to Christ. A tip of the hat to those doing God’s work in Peru! Great job! Keep it up. You are being a great model to us in the U.S.

A Story from Mike Butka

This month I want to share a story of one of the many successes that we are having in Trujillo. I want to tell you a story about Patty. Patty was one of the first people we met when we first arrived in Trujillo four and half years ago. Patty was Skylar and Nicole’s Spanish teacher. After 6 months, she started volunteering and helping (Danell) with Hope 4 Kids. Now she is one of the supervisors and they do it all! We are so grateful for their hard work and dedication to this program and to Christ. Danell and I took Patty and her parents through the Peace Treaty and all three of them were baptized in 2006. We never pressured or bible thumped Patty about her religious traditions that she was still part of. Recently she has been coming to our house church and she has been part of our training in the ambassador program, Life Winds and Puentes (bridges). All three of these programs we use in the barrios. It is so awesome to see how much she has grown with Christ and how her walk with the Lord is so strong. When we were in a new barrio called Buenas Aires Sur doing the Peace Treaty with 15 men at a drug rehab center, Patty was in my group. After the first lesson, she was all excited and told me that she was a natural evangelist. Patty was so excited and said I can’t believe I could have been doing this all along and I have wasted 3 years. I said don’t worry because you have many years and opportunities to serve Jesus. She told us that she can’t believe that she is and can be an ambassador of Christ. She is on fire for the Lord and last week she baptized her friend Lauren who she also took through the Peace Treaty. Now Patty is going to train Lauren how to be an ambassador! And this is how multiplying begins. Thank you Jesus for the love you continually give us!

The Last Week of September - John Hendee

It was great to get our group introduced to you over the last month. In the coming months, it will be our goal to keep you up to date in each of our specific areas.

As I thought about what to update you on this month, God led me to share with you some of the things Project New Hope International has been doing or is doing in Trujillo, Peru. It is pretty amazing what God is doing! And all this has been done in about three years!

1. We have regular children's programs involving about 800 kids every week in the barrios.

2. We are doing character teaching in several schools.

3. We help support education opportunities in the barrios by sharing our facilities with groups focused on that in the barrios.

4. We have helped provide water to two schools with several thousand students, partnering with Water for the World.

5. We have helped build many water tanks in the barrios.

6. We have helped build many bathrooms in the barrios.

7. We have helped build kitchens in the barrios.

8. We have built community centers in 5 barrios.

9. We have built a clinic in a poor area which should start functioning with the help of one of the Universities in town.

10. We partner with Hope 4 Kids in sponsoring about 250 kids in the barrios; food, clothes, bed, etc.

11. We have a full time youth worker in the barrios helping form youth groups. They have over 250 kids participating.

12. We have had various businesses helping provide jobs. We have a dairy farm with 150 cows.

13. We are helping the people build hundreds of chimneys in houses in the poorer areas.

14. We are working to help the people start bakeries in the barrios.

15. We have helped build many houses in the poorest areas and repair many falling apart.

16. We have regular activities in different areas for the senior adults in the barrios.

17. We have taken lots of youth on retreats out of their barrio.

18. We have helped sponsor kids days at parks and the beach for the poorest of kids.

19. We are helping the people in community development through a program called LifeWinds.

20. We are seeking to help get medical supplies to the hospitals through a group called Project CURE.

21. We helped sponsor a free dental clinic for 100 kids from the barrios, cooperating with Rotary club.

22. We are forming Community councils to help the people carry out many programs in the barrios.

23. We have sponsored health campaigns in the barrios in the form of cancer tests for women and parasite testing for children.

24. We are doing charter teaching in many schools with teachers.

25. We are working to bring a team from the U.S. to start Hospice Care in Trujillo.

26. We have had over 500 people from the U.S travel to Trujillo to help work in the barrios. They also have

gone to rest homes, orphanages, hospitals, special-ed schools and the women's prison.

27. We have offered marriage seminars in many barrios and in the city.

28. We have brought psychologists from the U.S to do training and teaching.

29. We are supporting 9 Peruvian families and 5 singles and are training them how to help in the community.

30. We are opening a refuge for women in crisis in Trujillo and plan to build a Women's Village.

31. We have cooperated in encouraging U.S. Aid to come to Trujillo to help on projects.

32. We have taken groups of women from the U.S. to visit and encourage women in prison.

33. We had a group of women from the U.S. help clean and paint the Emergencia Center for Women in Trujillo.

34. We have helped build a sports court in a barrio and plan on another soon.

35. We had our first Rendezvous in Peru in which visitors and locals helped on 8 or 9 different social

projects in the barrios.

36. We worked with IPD in the past on sports programs and plan on doing more.

37. We have had little girl’s choirs in the barrios; they are suspended right now for lack of support but plan on restarting them.

Wow! These are examples of what God is helping us do through you in Trujillo, Peru! Thank God and all those who are helping make this possible!

I believe God is preparing us for greater things ahead. If you would like to help support more of this go to our DONATE section and let your heart be your guide. Let your friends know and encourage them to help make a difference in the world.

In Him,

John