Christmas Toys Ministry 2022
Throughout Covid, we experienced divine favor and progress as we were allowed by the government to continue traveling. So in staying faithful to our calling to bring Christ to all of the Amazon, we branched out and supported villages on 8 different rivers! We continued to build on those initial touches this year and have seen tremendous growth and strong relationships being formed with hundreds of new families. Now, we need your help to continue spreading the Good News of Jesus this Christmas, all while celebrating Peruvian culture, honoring parents, and bringing a little extra cheer through a small gift that represents our commitment and love to each precious child that God has called us to care for.
Last year, we were blessed to love on thousands of children, gifting over 4,000 toys, cups of hot chocolate, and holiday bread to every child following a Gospel skit and presentation by our team. We also gifted bags of rice, vegetable oil, spaghetti, radishes, fruit, potatoes, and sugar to each family. The Christmas Toys ministry is our 2nd largest evangelistic outreach of the year. Each year, we make a promise to visit every village in our community. By visiting each village, it serves 3 purposes that allow for our organization to continue to grow in a huge way. First, the gift of toys following the Gospel program, instills hope, love, and security inside of children and their families that often have very little exposure to any of those feelings. Next, the connections that we make provide a glimpse of the network that our organization provides. To have a network of villages that work together in support of one another is a very foreign concept in 3rd world countries, and we are proud to reveal that to villages that are just discovering our organization. Finally, the Christmas Toys Ministry offers a relationship with our organization and our other ministries that we offer throughout the year. Through the relationships that we make through the ministry, we invite key leaders of the village to attend our seminary and conference gatherings throughout the year, and also exchange key contact information in case there are natural disasters or other needs that arise in the village. These key contacts that we make through this ministry have proven very providential in the work that we are accomplishing in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest and we can’t wait to see where God takes us next!