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Wednesday,
15 March, 2006
SU Peru and SU Scotland share a lot. The two organisations have the same vision....a group in every secondary school in the country. However, there are also very immediate differences. In Peru, much of the work that is done by Scripture Union continues to be with the children who live in the city streets.
250 ex street children are now in the full-time daily care of SU Peru and there is a plan to double that number. The children are split between Iquitos, Lima, Kawai and Kusi near Huaraz in the Peruvian Andes which will be receiving its first street boy residents in late March.
At Puerto Alegria, on the outskirts of Iquitos, there are 20 children, and a plan to make it 20 more. The current project there is to build a Maloka with 15 hammocks. This would be used to extend camps ministry, bringing a revenue stream that will help to support the home for street kids. The work at Puerto Alegria is the project that will be supported this year as young people at SU Scotland camps hear about the project and are encouraged to contribute and raise funds to support the work.
• There are 40,000 kids involved in the SU schools ministry
• There is an explosion of evangelical churches in Peru...almost 20% now evangelical.
• SU are opening a school at Kushi in the mountains, one of the poorer parts of Peru, SU are also involved in parenting classes and in teaching values to children as part of the curriculum.
People in Peru are still universally hostile to street children and atrocities continue. There is a need to help the Christians in Peru to understand that Jesus died for the children in the streets of Lima and Iquitos just as He died for them.
Elmer & Kathryn Rojas
Elmer & Kathryn Rojas have worked with SU in Peru for 15 years and are presently based in Lima, with their 2 sons (Kevin aged 15 years and Samuel aged 13 years). From April to November each year they spend much of their time working in schools. The Church in Peru is growing quite fast. When Elmer & Kathryn first went to work in Peru 1% of the population were evangelical Christians. Now 14% are Christian - however they say that this growth is wide but not deep.
In 2001 when the new President was elected, because of the level of corruption in the country, he decreed that children should learn moral values at school so this is now part of the school curriculum. By then SU had developed a Course on Christian values and since the teachers said they didn’t know how to teach values they asked SU to help. This has resulted in 40,000 children meeting every week where they hear the Christian message. Elmer & Kathryn have the opportunity to have contact with the 30 schools in Lima, as well as1300 schools in the State and there are many committed volunteers who help them with this job. While Elmer & Kathryn are totally free to talk about Jesus they are not allowed to invite the school children to church; however, the volunteers are. Many of the teenagers are keen to hear about Jesus - they ask for the Bible references, and are desperate to read the Bible. Most schools are blessed with the provision of ‘Gideon’ Bibles.
In Peru, the Law states that there should be monthly classes for Parents. Elmer & Kathryn hold “Parent Workshops” which gives them great opportunities to get to know other parents and also forms another aspect of their ministry.
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