As I'm sitting down to write this it is after 12:00 so technically I leave today for Peru. If you are reading this then you most likely already know me and know why I am going but, just in case, I will be flying to Lima today and then taking a bus (although that's not scheduled so I'm somewhat on my own there) to Ayacucho where I will then head to an orphanage (again not quite sure how I'm getting there) and will begin a month of mission work with the children in the orphanage. I'll then head to school for another month and finishing up with a couple of weeks of backpacking.
What I know I know about the orphanage (which I have gotten from the website http://www.casahogarlosgorriones.org/english/) is that this is an orphanage with 25-27 boys and girls ranging in ages from 2-15 and some of which have mental and/or physical disabilities. Some of these kids have parents who are unable to take care of them so the orphanage steps in and takes care of them and the parents are still part of their lives while other kids are on the national adoption list and so the orphanage takes care of the children until they can find a proper home. What I will be doing...I think...is helping with the day to day activities such as waking the kids up, feeding them, sending the older ones to school/entertaining the younger ones, helping with homework, washing them up etc. There is a level of unassurance to this trip though, and I welcome that. Why do I welcome that? It's simple, most of the time Jesus's disciples had no idea where the were going or what they were doing, they just knew that they could trust in him and everything would work out. So although I do not entirely know what I'm doing or how it will turn out, I know that it's in God's hands and I'm going to try to do my part because I know he's going to do his. So here we go, off to Peru to try to help out others a little bit because I know that they are going to help me out A LOT!
P.S. Not sure how much internet access I'm going to have so this may be my only post for a while.
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