July 29-31. Students returned to Casa Goshen Saturday morning after spending the night at the homes of their Lima host families, sharing with them their experiences from the last 6 weeks on service. Then we all boarded a bus for a retreat center at the edge of Lima where…
July 28. Over a 9-hour stretch yesterday all 21 students safely returned from their service assignments to Casa Goshen in Lima. The house filled with sounds of joy as each successive returning group entered and was welcomed by friends they had not seen for six weeks (although it seemed…
July 19-21. These two towns are reached by a 14-hour overnight bus ride from Lima through the Andes mountains. Chalhuanca, the larger of the towns, is the service home of Connor. Connor split his service work between teaching English at a local school and working in a medical laboratory…
July 18-19, 26. Curahuasi is about a 90-minute drive from Cusco. It’s most famous claim to fame is as the home of the Sayhuite Rock, a large piece of granite carved by the Incas with more than 200 figures. Curahuasi is also the service home of Erin and Nathan. …
July 17 Cusco, the high Andean city where the group’s journey to Machu Picchu began, is also the service location for two students. Maria began the visit with the service location of Mara, who is teaching at the private Mennonite school La Promesa. Mara teaches English classes in the…
July 11. The Amazon region of Peru is home to more than 50 indigenous groups, the largest of which is the Ashaninka people, numbering about 80,000. Caleb and Christy are living in one of the communities, San Miguel, which welcomes visitors to live with them. The community is…
July 9-12. These three nursing students are all serving in different health clinics in Chanchamayo, a popular coffee-growing region directly east of Lima that is reached by a road that climbs from Lima (in the desert at sea level), up over the Andes, through a snowy mountain pass at…
July 3-4. San Roque, where Anja and Austin are doing their service, is most notable for its size; whereas Arequipa and Ayacucho are major cities of several hundred thousand people, San Roque’s population is a mere 800. Another significant difference is altitude; rather than being in the high Andes…
July 1. Clara lives a 45-minute drive outside Ayacucho in the small village of Quinua, which has two claims to fame. It is most famous for having been the site of the 1824 Battle of Ayacucho, where South American forces fighting for independence defeated the Spanish royalist army,…
June 30 – July 1. Ayacucho is the capital of one of the poorer departments in Peru, located in the Andes about 9000 feet above sea level. Marisa, Landon and Karina work here at a school, a museum, and an orphanage. Marisa assists teachers in several English classes in…
