Peru

FMC IN PERU

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.

Country Statistics

Mission District

Population: 30,147,935 (73% urban)
Evangelical Christians: 11.6%
FM Work Opened: 1993
FM Churches: 11
FMC Membership: 753
Ordained Ministers: 6
Ministerial Candidates: 4
District Leader: Pastor Geovanna Chavez
Overseer: Dr. Ricardo Gómez, Latin America Area Director

Lima (7.6 million))
Arequipa (730,000)

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Pray for

• churches to be established and multiplied in the capital city of Lima
• a permanent meeting place for the Brazil Avenue FMC in Lima
• strength and health for Pastor Miguel Algorta as he pastors a church in Tarma, plants another church in Lima and provides leadership for the district
• multiplication of disciples, leaders, groups and churches
• veteran pastor and former Venezuela Conference Superintendent Casto Rojas as he mentors and coaches the work in Peru representing the area director

Church Planting and Development

Peru

Reproducible Bulletin Insert

Funding the Peru Church Planting and Development (CPD) will help resource the following people and strategic initiatives:

Pastor Miguel Algorta, mission district leader, who pastors the largest church in the central Andes city of Tarma (He also travels six hours weekly through the mountains to plant a church in the capital city of Lima.)

A Bible institute that takes classes to the different churches in an effort to equip pastors and lay leaders

Churches to be established and multiplied in the capital city of Lima

Multiplication of disciples, leaders, groups and churches

Peru - Lopez Community Church Planting

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David and Ginegda “Yeya” Lopez are international missionaries from Latin America to Lima, Perú. David is an ordained elder with a fruitful track record of multiplying house churches. The Lopez family will move to Lima in January 2017 to start a Community Church Planting training center to multiply disciples, groups and leaders in this strategic capital city.