This year Peru Projects received the challenge to conduct a Misión Caleb program in our territory. (Note: Misión Caleb is a special program where young lay people - Caleb’s – go conduct missionary campaign and civil service in a community where there is no Adventist presence) All the preparations were made for an April program so we could take advantage of Holy Week (Easter – when all churches have special week long programs).
We chose the community of Iparía, which is the capital of its district with the same name. Because the evangelistic work has been absent here for years we have returned to revive our message through a 10-day campaign by the Caleb’s. During these ten days the inhabitants of Iparía received messages of hope and were called to make the best decision of their lives.
Seven consecrated young people left Pucallpa Wednesday, the 13th of April, for Iparía on the public launch Cesar. Several young people also left Amaquiría for Iparía at the same time. They all arrived Thursday and immediately began fixing up the badly dilapidated chapel and going door to door to hand out invitations for the nightly meetings which were to begin the coming Sunday.
On Sabbath we held a consecration program and the chapel was filled with several visitors. Sunday we held a community outreach day where we painted parts of the plaza and cut the grass and weeds along the perimeter of the medical post. We also participated in the civic ceremony of raising the national flag in front of the municipal building.
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Aner Ruiz and Pr. Aholiab on the way to Iparia |
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Unloading all the luggage and equipment |
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| Finding their living quarters |
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| Beginning the extensive repairs |
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| Mowing the lawn |
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The team that mowed the Clinics lawn
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| Mission complete! |
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| Preparing to receive the Sabbath |
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| Sunday: civic work, painting the plaza |
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| Decorating committee |
Sunday afternoon we all headed to the airport to meet our evening evangelist, Pr. Heyssen Cordero of the MOP, via Peru Projects airplane.
With his arrival the decorating committee was able to begin preparing the chapel for our evening meetings, which had the central theme “Decisions”.
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| Pr. Heysen Cordero arriving |
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| The Caleb 2.0 team |
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Minister of the Word: Pr. Heysen Cordero
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All week we took the message of Hope, that Christ would return soon and the need to make the best decision, to many families. About 70 people attended our meetings!
The Devil worked very hard to impede our plans, making it a very difficult week. He brought many obstacles with our equipment but we could also see the hand of God opening the way to solve each of these difficulties. Every morning at 5:00 a.m. the Caleb team knelt and connected with their Creator and Savior.
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| Inviting Iparia house by house |
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| Visiting those showing interest |
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| Early morning Word of power |
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| Pr. Cordero giving the message of Hope |
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| Giving Bible studies |
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| Inviting the community over the public PA system |
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| High school teachers with book "There is Still Hope" |
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| City workers with book "There is Still Hope" |
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| The Clinic personnel also received the book |
Sabbath was a real spiritual feast! We met in the chapel for our services and even though we experienced very intense heat that day the chapel was full of people. During the Call all the people who had made their decision to surrender their lives to Jesus came forward: that day 25 people were reborn for the Kingdom of Heaven.
Misión Caleb was a real blessing for Iparía. One could see how the Holy Spirit worked on the hearts of those people who today are part of the Adventist family and are preparing to receive Jesus in the clouds of heaven.
Pr. Aholiab Lozano
