We're partnering with the US Embassy in Lima to provide toiletries and other basic items to American citizens imprisoned in Peru.
There are 19 US citizens imprisoned in Peru, mainly on drug trafficking charges, and they've all been pretty much abandoned by their families. They have nothing. The prisons in Peru where they are being held are not exactly the Four Seasons Hotel. Tuberculosis runs rampant in these places. The US Embassy was looking for a charity or NGO to donate toiletries and other items to the US prisoners, so we here at Flamingo Road Church in Lima stepped up to the plate. We announced this new partnership and outreach at church last Sunday, and the people responded magnificently, already volunteering to buy toiletries, donate clothing, and visit the prisoners.
Embassies may provide social outreach opportunities for you in international ministry, and it is something that you should investigate. Be ready to step up to the plate and volunteer if an embassy is looking for help with a social project or with disaster relief assistance.
Ironically, we know that most, if not all, of the 19 US prisoners in Peru may never darken the door of FRC-Lima (or at least not for 30-years-to-life). That doesn't stop us. We're grateful for this opportunity that God has given us to reach out to men and women in prison in Peru ... and in the US Embassy, too.
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