Into the Amazon

Communicating God's love to His children of the rain forest.
By: Peru Projects Team

Thanks to the DENMARK FUND, 10 new Volunteer Missionaries (VMs) were deployed to the Napo, Amazon and Yavari Rivers. These five teams (they are deployed in teams of two) will enter villages that currently have no Adventist presence. They will reach their assigned villages by river taxi, as this is the most economical way to travel. Each team will remain in their village for two months, at which time their work will be evaluated, and a decision will be made to continue or to be moved to another district.

We are especially excited about the team that has been dispatched to the Yavari River, on the south-easternmost point of Peru, along the Brazilian border. This river is home to four ethnic groups there that have yet to hear the Three Angels' Messages. They are the: Cocayna, Bora, Quichua, and Huitoto. Besides speaking their native dialects, these people groups also speak Spanish and Portuguese.

Meanwhile, seven volunteers working on the Tiger River since November 2004, tell us that they have multiple couples that need to be wed before they can be baptized, and many more individuals are awaiting baptism (perhaps as many as 100!!). You can bet that as soon as our Lake Renegade is back in the air our pilot, Beto, will plan a trip to the Tiger River to do the honors.

Please help us to pray for these new teams; that their life, words and actions will all communicate God's love for His children of the rain forest. John 1:14 says, "And the word was made flesh..." Each Christian is the "incarnation" of God's Word in the sense that we are given the privilege of introducing the Son of Man, Emmanuel, through the Holy Scriptures, to other human beings. We pray that the Living Word may touch the hearts of our volunteers, and they in turn, can touch the hearts of the men, women and children of the Amazon jungle.