Welcome to the Advocates' Peru Tour website.

Here you can keep up to date with the activities of our group of advocates as we travel to Peru from the 5th to the 16th of February 2008 to see the work of Compassion.
Advocates are sponsors with a heart for our ministry who volunteer some of their time on an ongoing basis to promote Compassion in their churches and within their spheres of influence.

The team will spend time meeting staff and children in projects, visiting the homes of Compassion sponsored children, seeing how the country office operates and meeting formerly sponsored children. We will try to update the site each day whilst we are in Peru and we hope you find it interesting. Enjoy!


DAILY ITINERARY

Below is the itinerary of the group whilst in Peru:
5th February
Group travels to Peru today, arriving at Lima airport in the evening.

6th February
Visit to the Compassion office and meet with staff.

7th February
Visit to Child Survival Programme at project PE-248.


Visit with the Compassion assisted children in their homes.

8th February
Fun Day with sponsored children of advocates on the tour


Dinner with formerly sponsored children

9th February
Visit to project PE-444


Sightseeing in Lima

10th February
Worship at a Peruvian church connected to a Compassion project, where some Compassion students will be graduating.

Fly to Chiclayo

11th February
Visit to a rural project in Chiclayo

Sightseeing in Chiclayo

12th February
Visit to project PE-339

Visit with Compassion assisted children in their homes.

Fly back to Lima

13th February
Visit to project PE-123


Dinner with Leadership Development Students

14th February
Shopping at local markets

Debrief

Depart from Lima Airport

15th February
Flying home

16th February
Arrive home




Friday, 15 February 2008

May my heart be broken (and Maria's musings)


"May my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God" (founder of World Vision I believe)
Hello my friend Peter. The answer is yes I did (a lot!!)

We are now in Houston waiting for our flight home later today. After a 3.5 hour check in at Lima we are having very a welcome rest in a Holiday Inn. The chef couldnt quite understand why we really did not want 3 eggs with our bacon and hash browns!

Just going for a shower and a sleep before our long flight back to Gatwick.

The contrast at Houston after Lima is quite dramatic but sadly very easy to slip back into. There were definitely no stretched limos in Lima let alone dedicated parking spaces! The initial smile and laughter in the Ladies when not only did the loo flush automatically, (& Maria was very very pleased to be able to flush the paper down the loo instead of putting it in a bin!) but the tap turned itself on and off (ok I know this has reached the UK) but the paper hand towel also saw me coming and leaped out at my outstretched hand!! Slight surprise and lots of laughter welcome after the joys of negotiating the US immigration procedure!!

My minister said I would be (even more) unbearable when I got back so will be back soon so watch out!

With Love

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