01  Peru: 1999, 2000  7 Chapters  (67:24)   Script: Peru 1999, 2000.pdf

03/25/2023

01-00  Peru Introduction 1999-2000   (2:37)     The Asheninca People, living along the headwaters of the Amazon River, was a new emphasis for the IMB. The Huser's, former members of our church in Cassville, Missouri, were now serving among this isolated and very difficult to reach People Group. In 1999, the mission team invited several people from our church to visit them and help with the ongoing work. My brother, Bill, and I were the only volunteers who made the trip. It was a great experience and we developed a much better understanding of mission work among diverse environments and cultures.

    The following year Carl and Arline visited to Peru but, this time, the mission work was located on the outskirts of the mega-city of Lima, the capitol of Peru. The area is a place where people struggle to carve a home and a new life out of the barren and rocky hills. While in Peru, we also took a two-day trip up and over the Andes Mountains to the cities of Tarma and Huancayo.

01 Cassville to Pucallpa 1999  (9:59)   The Asheninca People live in the lowlands of Eastern Peru along several rivers that feed into the Amazon. They depend on these rivers for their primary and sometimes, their only, method of transportation. David, a former member of our church in Cassville, is now a missionary among the Asheninca. Bill and Carl volunteered to visit the missionary and deliver supplies. We also documented the mission work for our church.  

   

02 Pucallpa to Puerto Bermudez 1999  (6:57)

The five of us were up early for the trip to Puerto Bermudez. On our way out, we filled the two diesel tanks of the Land Cruiser and several cans with gasoline for the motor boat. A bus also filling up for the 320 mile trip over the mountains to Lima. It will take 25 hours for the bus ride. We started out on a paved road toward Lima then, after about 20 miles, it was south on through Campo Verde – then dirt.

03 Puerto Bermudez to Belen 1999  (16:08)

 After lunch, we loaded our gear into the peki-peki and were ready to head down river. Our peki-peki is about 30-feet long and just over 3-feet wide with power supplied by a 9-horse power gas engine. A shaft is attached to the motor and extends to the rear of the boat driving a small propeller. This allows for very shallow water operation. This River, the Pichis becomes the Ucayali several miles down stream.

04 Belene to Home  1999   (11:10)    After our usual breakfast, we were back on the river. Bill took a couple turns at the control of the peki-peki but most of the time he was up on the bow of the boat watching for submerged logs and rocks. Some of the obstacles were spotted too late for the slow maneuvering peki-peki to avoid. We arrived in Amanbay by late afternoon and rejoined Perry and Marty where we had left them on the way down river.

05 Come to My Home  2000  (11:26)    From all over Peru, people come to Lima looking for a  

job and a better life. With little or no money, they are making their homes in the mountain foothills of Eastern Lima. Missionaries, Woody and Sylvia Fletcher serve in the Marginal Urban Populations of Peru. Members of the team work in  “the area” where people by the hundreds come in and literally carve out a place for a small home from the hillsides surrounding Lima.

 

06 The Andes of Peru  2000   (12:07)    The winding road passing through tunnels, across rivers, up steep mountain grades and narrow passes is all part of the Andes of Peru. On this three-day trip, we will reach an elevation of 16,200 feet in a world much different from that of Lima. Peru's Central Highway is the well-traveled route across the Andes and back down to Pucallpa in the lowlands near the

Amazon River.

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