By Karen and Duane Sherer Stoltzfus Peru SST Co-Directors, 2014-2015 Joanna with Ethna, working in the kitchen of Luz y Vida. After dropping off suitcases at our hostel in Ayacucho, we went to Comedor Luz y Vida, a place where children from impoverished homes can…
By Karen and Duane Sherer Stoltzfus Peru SST Co-Directors, 2014-2015 Maria and Christian arrive at Fe y Alegria school above the city of Tarma. The morning after we arrived in Tarma, we found ourselves standing in the Fe y Alegria school yard with Christian and Maria,…
Lea and Micah at the restaurant Aldea Yanapay, which raises money to help Cusco area children. By Karen and Duane Sherer Stoltzfus Peru SST Co-Directors, 2014-2015 When Lea and Micah joined us for supper near the Plaza de Armas, or central park, in Cusco, it was…
By Karen and Duane Sherer Stoltzfus Peru SST Co-Directors, 2014-2015 Early in the morning, the Spring 2015 Peru SST group poses in the traditional spot that overlooks the Machu Picchu ruins. On the evening before we visited Machu Picchu, we talked about how we wanted to…
By Karen and Duane Sherer Stoltzfus Peru SST Co-Directors, 2014-2015 More than 500 years ago, Ollantaytambo served as an important rest stop and administrative and religious center for the Incas. For our group, it proved to be a perfect place to stop after visiting the Incan sites at Chinchero…
By Karen and Duane Sherer Stoltzfus Peru SST Co-Directors, 2014-2015 Early on Monday morning, students said good-bye to their Cusco area host families and we made our way into the Sacred Valley by bus, accompanied once again by Amadeo, our faithful guide. Our first stop included an opportunity to upgrade…
By Karen and Duane Sherer Stoltzfus Peru SST Co-Directors, 2014-2015 Ready to dig in to a meal of fresh trout. The first Mennonite church in Peru, La Iglesia Evangelica Menonita de Lucre (Lucre Mennonite Evangelical Church), was founded in this small mountain town of a few thousand people…
By Karen and Duane Sherer Stoltzfus Peru SST Co-Directors, 2014-2015 Lima may be a metropolis of 10 million people, one third of Peru’s total population, but to visit Cusco is to be reminded why the Incas regarded this Andean capital as “the navel of the world.”…
By Karen and Duane Sherer Stoltzfus Peru SST Co-Directors, 2014-2015 We followed in the footsteps of nearly a dozen Goshen College groups in traveling to volunteer in the community gardens managed by Señora Gregoria Flores in Villa María del Triunfo, a sandy, southern district of Lima.
Courtney with her host mother, Stally, and sister, Sofia. Though most of the time she is on the receiving end of cultural learning in Peru, Courtney wrote a journal entry about the time she called a reverse play. New England Patriots (12-4) vs. Seattle Seahawks (12-4) in…
