Can you please introduce yourself and a little about your role on the 2019 Peru Project team?
My name is Chad Johnson,
and I’m the pastor at Fellowship Bible Church in Lindon, UT. I have worked at compiling a team of servants
to join me in going to Tarapoto, Peru to be a blessing to the missionary family
that planted a church there in Tarapoto – Delwin and
Techy Fowler. We desire to encourage
them, to put on a pastor’s conference for local Peruvian pastors from surrounding
villages (sometimes upwards of 50 miles away), and to do some work on a kids camp
the Fowlers have been working to get established in Tarapoto. My primary role will be serving as one of the
teachers for the conference.
What
are the dates of the trip?
What
will the team be doing in Peru?
Our team will be doing multiple different things. We will be putting on a pastor’s conference where 4 of us will rotate teaching sessions. Those attending the conference will be pastors and ministry leaders from the region of Tarapoto and its surrounding villages. Pastors and ministry leaders will travel as far as 50 miles, sometimes through the hard-to-travel jungles, to come to the conference. We are expecting anywhere from 100-150 leaders to attend.
It’s a neat opportunity to minister to these leaders, as many of them have no biblical training. The surrounding villages have little pockets of churches where people come to know Jesus, and then just choose who is the oldest or most willing to be the pastor. Many of these leaders who come to the conference are hungry to learn more about the Bible and what it has to say about ministry. It’s a great opportunity to minister to them, encourage them, and further equip them in their role. This will be a 3-day conference, with 10 sessions. Our topic will be bibliology, and we plan on teaching sessions covering the following sub-topics:
- What is the evidence for the Bible?
- Where did the Bible come from?
- How do we defend the Bible?
- How are we to study the Bible?
- How do information and transformation go together?
In addition to the conference, we plan on serving at the local church where the missionary pastor, Delwin, and his wife, Techy, attend. They planted the church and are the ones who like to organize these conferences for other ministry leaders whom they build relationships with. We will have the opportunity to preach, teach, and share our testimonies during their Sunday morning services and mid-week Bible studies and activities. In addition, we plan on doing a little bit of work on their kids camp that they are seeking to establish to use as a summer camp for kids to come to. We will also reserve one day for sight-seeing and exploring.
How
many people are on the team?
12
What
people make up the team (walks of life, ages, home churches, etc)?
New Hope Bible Church (church plant in Utah County that was launched about 5 years ago): There is one married couple (Rob & Denise Rogers) that is going and will be bringing their 3 teenage children. Pastor Chris Dodson will be going and will be part of our teaching rotation. David Denning will be going and will be part of our teaching rotation. Josh Hambrick will be going and serving with a bunch of odds and ends, including providing fantastic cooking abilities. He will also be sharing his testimony one evening.
Fellowship Bible Church (Lindon): I will be going and will be part of the teaching rotation. Marriner Merrill will be going as well. He will have the opportunity to share his testimony and serve as needed in helping organize the pastor’s conference.
Grace Bible Church (Springville): Chris Willett will be going and will be part of the teaching rotation.
Faith Community Church (Eagle Mountain): Luis Leyva will be joining us and serving as the translator since the speakers don’t speak Spanish. Luis has taken this trip and served in this way in the past.
What
made you personally decide to go?
What
are some of your goals for the trip?
- Exposure to the Peruvian culture
- Equipping the Peruvian pastors to better minister in their churches
- Encouraging the church planting pastor and his family in Tarapoto, Peru – Delwin and Techy Fowler
- Evangelizing in the Tarapoto, Peru region
- Evaluating future plans for the local church and kids camp
Do
you have any specific prayer requests?
- Pray for those who are preparing lessons to teach at the pastor’s conference.
- Pray for our health, as going to a brand new culture can sometimes create issues.
- Pray for team unity – that our relationships would deepen and that we’d be unified.
- Pray for a growing enthusiasm in our churches for missions.
- Pray that this trip would help bring greater unity in our churches throughout our Valley.
- Pray for our financial needs.
Support funds will be used to go toward the pastor’s conference. We want to be able to allow the pastors and ministry leaders to come free of charge to them. They already have so little and are making great sacrifices to make it to the conference. We want to be a blessing to them by providing the conference, resources, meals, etc., so that they can just come and focus on learning and growing spiritually. Because we expect to have 100-150 Pastors and leaders, we have set the estimated cost to pull off the conference at $4,000.
If you feel led to give to the 2019 Peru Project, click here! (If this link is not working, you can also find a donation link in the pinned post on their page)
If you feel led to give to the 2019 Peru Project, click here! (If this link is not working, you can also find a donation link in the pinned post on their page)
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