Neil and Amanda Roper arrived in Cusco in January this year to work alongside Scott and Anjanette in El Puente Church. They are here with BMS for two years to develop the youth and children’s work. Yesterday (Saturday) was their first big event which we had the opportunity to help with. They hired the local sports court and set up lots of games and activities. Some of the team walked around the streets inviting local children to attend and about 40 turned up. The children enjoyed face painting, played football, parachute games, made juggling balls out of rice and balloons, ran relay races, played with hoops, diablos and spinning tops.
It was great to see the children having fun and despite the language barrier we managed to communicate through signing and the universal language of football! It was also good to see Neil and Amanda making initial connections with these children and we hope and pray that these relationships will grow and flourish over the coming weeks and months. From what we have already observed we know they will do a fantastic job and look forward to hearing the stories of the work they will do here.
Bound for Peru 