Door Creek Church

***Special guest blogger Ella and photographer Kristin from the Door Creek Church Service Team***

Hola! After 21 hours of traveling, a 5 hour layover in Atlanta, having to fly around a volcano in Ecuador, learning how to do bathroom yoga on the flight, and losing Kaitlin’s guitar, we’re happy to announce we arrived safely in Peru at around 11:30pm last night.



We were greeted at the airport by Mike, the director of the children’s home in Lima, and Machi, the other driver, whom Joel graciously chose to ride with back to the apartment and test his Spanish on. After we arrived at our team apartment we were pleasantly surprised that it was much nicer than expected. So after being reminded a dozen times not to flush the toilet paper, and figuring out how to brush our teeth with a bottle of water, we all crawled into bed completely exhausted from our adventure.

This morning we woke up and the boys cooked everyone a nice breakfast of eggs, toast, and oatmeal. Then we sat down for a brief orientation with Mike, Jon, and their families where we all got better acquainted and discussed our plans for the week. After lunch we took off to tour the Manchay Oasis Care Center and the new Juniper Tree home in Pachacamac.



When we arrived at The Juniper Tree home Jon showed us around and we introduced ourselves to the families and met their two pet goats. After that we got everyone together for an exciting game of soccer in the yard where the younger boys showed off their skills to us, and a few of the older girls played volleyball.



We just arrived back home after a long day and are looking forward to eating a delicious Peruvian dinner.

Unfortunately team member Linda still hasn’t been able to make it out here yet but we look forward to her arrival tomorrow and hopefully we will make it through the Indian Markets without her Peruvian expertise and advice. We thank you for your prayers and look forward to seeing God work in our lives and the children’s throughout the rest of this week.