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PRESENT MINISTRIES

Since starting in the southern city of Tacna, Free Methodist ministry has spread throughout the three regions of Peru – jungle, mountains and coast. The largest church in the central Andes city of Tama is pastored by District Leader Miguel Algorta, who regularly travels six hours through the mountains to a church plant in the capital city of Lima. A Bible institute takes classes to the churches to help equip pastors and lay leaders.

ORIGINS

In 1992 a young Chilean, Victor Alvarez, asked the Chilean FMC to appoint him to open the FMC in southern Peru. When it became clear that the Chileans wouldn’t have any funds to help support him, Victor said he wanted to be assigned even without funding. During his first year, he traveled by hitch-hiking and eating an apple each day for lunch. In 1994 another Chilean, Samuel Vasquez, was assigned by the Chilean conference to a church plant in Tacna, Peru.