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

4th Week of September - Eric Malave

My name is Eric Malave and I first experienced the Project New Hope Internationals plan in July of 2006, when I came down on a short mission trip with Hope 4 Kids International. The barrio director’s had been working in the Barrio’s about 30 days, so it was near the beginning. After seeing the vision of the project, I knew I had to be involved in some way or another. This mission touched my heart at the right time as I was really trying to piece together what God’s will for my life was. I had just helped plant a church in my community, serving as a part-time Children’s Pastor, and while that was fulfilling, it still didn’t seem like I was either being used to my full potential, or that I was really fully passionate about what I was doing. John Hendee and Project New Hope was about to change all of that. After many discussions over the last few years with John, I came on board as the Assistant to the Executive Director in April of 2009.

I work directly with John on many different projects. The first project I started on was to change our website look and content, with a goal of really telling the story of what is happening in Trujillo. I am also currently in production of new videos for our website and for promotion of different areas of the project. I am also working on new brochures for the project as well.

Another area that I have begun work on is connecting new organizations and churches to the project. In October, I will be hosting our first Vision Trip in Trujillo, Peru. The idea is to take a few days to show other churches and organizations everything our team is working on in Trujillo and then help them figure out how they may fit in as a partner to the project. Our first trip will include a group from Young Life from Arizona and a Young Life Team from Lima. I will also be hosting a few other individuals that are looking to be more involved including Jim Rhodes from El Centro California and David Myers from Fellowship Church in Anthem, Arizona. We will also, be doing a dedication of a water well that our partner Water for the World helped us complete in a local school.

After traveling to different parts of the world and seeing many friends doing great things around the world, I had never seen a project of this magnitude until traveling to Peru. I truly believe this project can change the way things are being done around the world. There is a saying, “You can give a man a fish and feed him for a day, or you can teach a man to fish and feed him for a life”. Our team is teaching! They are teaching people how to help themselves as communities and to rise up leaders from within their own barrios and not just to rely on relief organizations, but to rely on God and each other. It is amazing to see the growth of the people. And I am proud to be a part of this organization.

Eric Malave

3rd Week of September - Tim Coop

My name is Tim Coop. I recently resigned from Pantano Christian Church, in Tucson, Arizona, where I had served for 17 years. My wife Sandy and I have now moved to Las Vegas so that we can be near my children and grandchildren.

I have been a part of Project New Hope International from the very beginning. This project has been a bold, fresh approach to missions - to reaching a city. My role is now expanding with the project. Knowing I had some discretionary time, John Hendee has asked me to be a consultant for Project New Hope in the area of developing a city church planting movement in Trujillo. We are doing some amazing things in the barrios surrounding Trujillo. Now it is time to turn our attention to the city itself. Our strategy is to use the LifeWind (holistic community transformation) and Bridges (Biblical Story Telling), the same vehicles we are using in the barrios outside the city to develop a city movement built on small house churches which change the barrios of the city from the inside out. Trujillo consists of 59 barrios. Out of the 59, two city barrios have already been chosen to begin the city work, barrios that give us the greatest chance for success. They will become our pilot projects. This approach is time and relationship intensive, but promises amazing exponential, transforming results in the long term.

At the same time, it is the goal of the city movement to develop a healthy city celebration where Christ Followers can gather for a family reunion on a weekly basis. Mike Bukta has recently started such a gathering on Sunday nights.

I will be working with Mike in this role, making four or five trips every year to Trujillo, and making myself available to him on a weekly basis through email and phone calls.

In the past three years in Tucson, I helped Pantano utilize LifeWind in the urban poor areas of Tucson, experimenting with how we can use the LifeWind principles of community transformation in Western culture. As a member of the PNHI board since it’s inception I have been a part of helping us fully grasp the paradigm of community transformation using the LifeWind and Bridges approach. Now, I am truly excited about seeing what can happen in the city of Trujillo. Just once in my life I would like to witness a movement that is so out of control only God can take the credit or contain it. This would be my prayer in the city of Trujillo.


Tim Coop

2nd Week of September - Mike Butka

In September we will be working in 7 new barrios. For the last month and a half, each barrio director has been visiting at least 3 possible barrios to start their new work in. I would like to tell you a story about an experience that one of the directors had.

Jorge was driving into a new area, his goal was to get to know people and introduce himself and the project. He was welcomed by two guards! The guards would not let Jorge in the barrio, and they closed the gate before he could drive in. As Jorge was talking to these two guards, 30 people with shovels and big sticks surrounded his truck. There were also huge rocks in his path. Jorge was very nervous and scared; because this was the first time he has been in a situation like this. He didn’t really know what to do! I’m sure he wanted to just back up and drive away, but obviously there were people all around him and he had nowhere to escape. So he got out of the truck and they asked him who he was, and he responded with, “who are you guys?” They replied, “We are the neighborhood watch and we have had a lot of trouble with theft and crime in this barrio, so we are very careful who we let in.” Jorge introduced himself and told them about the project and the work we want to do in their barrio. Then the crowd went from wanting to lynch him to welcoming him. They were excited to hear about the work that we want to do there. One woman there said that she’s been praying about someone helping their community. This barrio does not have any churches or help from the government because it is a newly formed barrio. This is just one of the many of the positive feedback's that we have been getting about the work in the barrios.

I would like to share one other quick story with you. Manuel is a university student that is teaching Skylar and Nicole drums, he also will be teaching them keyboard. We just finished going through the Peace Treaty with him and he got baptized on Saturday at the beach. We offered the Peace Treaty to his mom and aunt and they are excited to go through the lessons this week! Please pray for this family; Manuel is a very neat kid.

As always Danell and I ask for your continued prayers in all areas. We ask that you petition God on our behalf as we continue to move forward with moving into new barrios. And we ask that you petition God on our behalf to continue to guide those barrios that we have already been in. Please continue to keep our entire team in your prayers.

In God’s Service!

Mike, Danell, Skylar and Nicole

1st Week of September - John Hendee

For those of you who are familiar with Project New Hope International, you know me and my wife Carla. For those who are new to our ministry I would to take the opportunity to tell you who we are and what we are doing in Trujillo, Peru. My name is John Hendee and the beautiful woman pictured with me is my wife Carla. I am the Executive Director of PNHI and was one of the founders of the project when it was formed over five years ago.

My role as Executive Director of Project New Hope International has been to be a leader for all of our missionaries on the ground in Trujillo. Since 2007 I have made 26 separate trips in country to help lend support to our team there.

Now let me fill you in on what has been happening in country! While Project New Hope International was established over five years ago, the work on the ground in Trujillo has actually been underway for a little over three years. While we have had some failures in the early years of the project, the movement to “win one city at a time in Peru for Christ” is well underway. We have seen far more successes than failures during our time there. And we really feel that more progress will be made since we made some minor changes to our team in Trujillo.

Let me share some of the success that really have us excited about what we are doing in Trujillo. At present we have over 1500 people involved in weekly home oral Bible story groups. We are working in the poor areas, in the city, reaching out to university students, working in forming businesses (i.e. we have a dairy farm) and we are working with many other groups in common ventures. We are also working on opening a clinic and building a Women's Village for battered women and others in crisis.

God has truly blessed Project New Hope International with a great team. I encourage you to take some time looking through the pages of our website. Get to know each of the members and add them to your prayer list. You will find a link to Project New Hope Internationals webpage on this blog.

Finally, I want to give you an idea what you can expect from this blog. Each week you will be getting an update from key leaders in the project. In September, they will introduce themselves to you. And then in following months each leader will update you on what is happening in his particular area. Next week you will get a chance to know Mike Butka better. Mike is our Field Team Leader. After that you will hear from Tim Coop. Tim is beginning a new endeavor with Project New Hope International. He will be involved in helping our City Church expand. Then, Nestor Silva will report on the progress of the businesses. And finally, months that have 5 weeks, Eric Malave will report on his activities. Eric is working as my associate.

All in all, our goal as a group is to do more to keep you informed of the great things God is doing in Peru. The blog is one way to keep you informed. Another way is through our “Prayer Page.” Please visit our prayer pages often for our specific prayer requests.

Thank you for your interest in Project New Hope International! And God bless you all!

In Him,

John & Carla Hendee