Jeff Adams

What a neat day! I loved the testimonies from Taiwan and China and hope you did, too. All three services seemed not only packed with people but packed with energy.

So, this is Sunday evening and, speaking of packing, that’s what I just finished doing. My crazy, insane schedule is taking me to Lima, Peru tomorrow. This is a somewhat impromptu trip that has only been in the works the past few weeks. Here’s what happened.

A friend of mine named Beto is pastor of a fine church in Lima. Previously, he and his family served in Spain working with people from a Muslim background in the Barcelona area. After going through years of preparation, raising support and all of the other steps involved in moving a family with young children to the other side of the world, they finally made it. But, after less than 2 years in Spain, a family health issue necessitated their return to Peru. You can imagine that the return was as difficult as it had been to go in the first place. Not long after returning, the church where he now serves had asked him to be their pastor. He is doing a great job and the church is growing.

Not that long ago I received an email from Beto asking for advice and prayer concerning a burden to use his missions background to mobilize believers in Peru toward reaching the least reached. Beto is a first class guy from a professional engineering background. I was thrilled to see what God was doing in his life. Thinking that his church might light to participate with us and others in the BKA and our friendship with the K*urds, and reflecting on some of the missions contacts I have, I asked him if I might come down for a day or two and discuss how God could use him for global missions as a mobilizer in Peru.

Beto was immediately receptive. I asked him about getting together a group of his friends in ministry so we could sit around and talk about missions. I was thinking we might get together a group of 20 or 25 pastors. My dear friend Tony Vasquez is also a friend of Beto from having been together in Spain, and Tony agreed to go with me.

You can imagine our surprise when Beto wrote back and said he has a group of about 30o pastors, leaders and folks from his church waiting for us to come and do a conference on global missions to the least reached. That’s the type of guy he is!

So, I’ll head out tomorrow and get to Lima around 10:30pm tomorrow night if flights are on time. Tuesday and Wednesday we will do the conference. Then, Thursday night late I’ll head home, getting into Kansas City late Friday morning. Pray for us and the conference. I’ll try to keep you updated along the way as I have opportunity. Sometimes the best things are the ones God springs on us without our prior knowledge.