Moory Christmas - by Mack Jennings

Merry Christmas to all (or, if you are in the dairy business like we are in Peru, perhaps it is “Mooory Christmas). It has been a wonderful year on the evangelical side of the Peru project and a year of some discovery, some disappointments and some successes in the business side of the project. We look forward to growth in the dairy in 2010 as well as some new businesses that will fuel the evangelical side sometime in the future.

The US side of the business team spends considerable time in Peru and stateside seeking out new business opportunities. As we have ideas we work with our man on the ground in Peru, Nestor Silva, who also contributes ideas of his own. Then, through numerous professional contacts and network sources, he investigates, develops, ensures our legal well being and attempts to put people together to create an entity that will eventually help support our effort in Trujillo/Viru and also enable us to move to a different community perhaps.

Some of the new projects that are being examined are the construction of a shipping facility in the port city of Salavarry, low cost housing , a plant nursery facility in Viru, a recycling business and concerts for school kids (what a grand opportunity for the evangelical side too!). Of course we have no specific training in building ports or housing projects but we will be in the role of putting knowledgeable businesses together and providing a top level oversight, thus being a value added component that will share in the profits of the ventures.

We are also thinking about restarting the cuy (a staple food in Peru) business in the facilities we have already constructed in Viru (the last effort was the victim of some disease that pretty much wiped out the cuy population). We would enter that business, as well as the nursery business, with the National University in Trujillo as participating partners. We bring facilities and some work force to the partnership, the university brings financial and other resources, as well as students in the various university disciplines who have knowledge of the specific business.

2010 will be a challenging year for the Kingdom Business side of the project. We hope that you will join in our prayers for wisdom, resources, good relationships with partners (who will also be hearing the Word at the same time) and success in the financial and spiritual realms.