Aniversario

Well, it's been almost a week now, but it's still worth posting - our church here celebrated its one-year anniversary last Sunday. It was a beautiful service, a great time of rejoicing in what God has done here, starting with a couple of small groups, now a growing family seeking to serve and make an impact in Salamanca.

During the service we celebrated with the welcoming of new members and several baptisms, in addition to a newly unified worship team and guest preaching from Keith Powlison of the Cusco team.

Afterwards, we had a big party. Those in the church with means really wanted to go all out, so there was a cake worthy of a royal wedding, seen here with many of the original families of the church....

....and for a special surprise, what else but a Mexican mariachi band!

Really, you never know what you're going to get in Peru. We also had musical showcase for members of the church, so a couple of my students (on drums and bass) and I played some praise songs. Jimmy and Tito shared some of their own songs,

and Eliseo, Harvey, Robinson and Basilia played beautiful Andean music.


It was a great day, a fitting celebration of the Lord and what he is doing at "Luz de Vida".