Cost: $850 per person plus airfare

 

Register by: March 15, 2012

 

Entry Requirements: USA passport only

 

Why Go? IWC’s project in Lima will be the setting for a truly multinational partnership. Students from Ecuador will join Americans in conducting evangelism and discipleship together with Peruvian churches. Activities will include street witnessing, one-on-one student discipleship, outreach through sports and children’s activities, and a New Testament-style search for “persons of peace” to host home Bible studies and house churches. Participants will receive church planting training as part of the project.

 

About Peru: Peru is the third-largest country in South America and is approximately three times the size of California.  Lima, the largest city and the country's capital, is located on the Pacific coast. Thanks to the flow of cold Antarctic waters from the south, the city actually experiences mild temperatures and desert-like conditions with very little rain. Almost 30% of the population lives in Lima.

 

Cultural Information: As a developing country with expanding tourism, growing exports, and large-scale migration from rural to urban areas, Peru is becoming more homogeneous in culture. Peru has greatly improved in the past decade, but vast economic disparity and widespread poverty still hamper the nation. Most Peruvians are either Spanish-speaking mestizos--a term that usually refers to a mixture of indigenous and European/Caucasian--or Amerindians, largely Quechua-speaking indigenous people. Peruvians of European descent make up about 15% of the population.   

 

Total capacity for this project: 70