ARRIVED BACK HOME

After six days of hard work and a 5 hour delayed flight by Air Canada, we have arrived home safely.

Though we worked extremely hard while in Peru, we are feeling refreshed and wished we could have stayed longer.

We are now planning our next outreach for sometime in the late Spring of 2009. Anyone of you who are reading this and want to go with us, please let us know. You would need to raise your own support, but it is good to start early.

Please pray for me as I will have some serious medical tests next Tuesday. Pray that the Lord will heal me before I receive the tests.

Thanks to all of you for praying while Hannelore and I were ministering in Peru.

John and Hannelore

TABLADA DE LURIN

We had a nice dinner with Udo, Barbara and the kids, who will be leaving for Germany (to live there) in January 2009. We hope and pray to visit them in the early part of 2009.

Went to Tablada de Lurin and preached in this exciting church. Pastor Arturo and his wife Isobel are doing a fantastic job. The church is really growing - there must have been 120 adults and children there.

As this is a really poor church, we blessed the poorest with money which our Skills Unlimited IV students collected before we went. We gave out all the money and Hannelore bought about 65 packages of cookes-crackers for the children.

I preached about The Joy of the Lord and it was fun! There were eight salvations. PTL!!!!

Hannelore made a lot of pictures.

Our new church in Prince Albert will (has selected) select Tablada as a mission and sister church. Real connections were made this evening.

It is now about 12:30 am and within 24 hours we will be sitting on the airplane to come back home. Although we wanted to stay here for ever, we have some obligations at home and after all we have to use the return ticket and bring the presents home for our students. See you in a couple of days. Do not know if we can put another blog up before we leave Lima.

Love you.


John and Hannelore

BEAUTIFUL BARRANCA - PUENTE BOLIVAR (LAS PALMERAS)

We hired a private van to go to Barranca and Puente Bolivar - a quick way in and out in one day.

We picked up Pastor Pedro Sanchez and his wife Eve in San Martin de Porres.

It was a really good trip both up and down. Police stopped us twice - once our driver got a ticket (we do not know for what - and we believe that even the police did not know why), and the second time we received a stern warning that we had to wear our seatbelts which we had on anyway.

Hannelore did a little shopping in Barranca for about fifteen minutes. We also had a wonderful meal at a fish restaurant.

Then we went to Puente Bolivar (Las Palmeras) to scan the community for our upcoming housing project. Hannelore took a lot of pictures. By the way, Dwayne and Darla, when you read this, we met the Canada twins. Darla and Anika are now walking and have four teeth each in their mouth. We blessed their mom with the money you gave us and some extras.

We also visited the moms at the houses we replaced last time. They are really happy with the houses they received. Hannelore went on the inside and they keep it really clean, but they have absolutely no furniture. Maybe something we can do something about the next time.

Hannelore bought crackers for all the kids in the village. They all came out like little bees.

We are really surprised about the work the church has done on the inside. They are working really hard and raising monies to fix the church on the inside. We spoke to Pastor Fernando and he told us that they now have 22 regular adult attenders and 11 children and teenagers. They also have a teenage church on Saturday evenings and it is attended extremely well. It is so good to see what can happen when you help someone. God is so good!!!

Talk to you later.


John and Hannelore

SUNDAY

Hello everyone,

We had our three church services today. Preached the same sermon 3x. Had approximately 350 people in all services.

This evening we handed out diplomas at our campus in San Martin de Porres. Hannelore took pictures, which we can put on our web site and place in the Prince Albert Daily Herald upon our return.

Tomorrow morning we are leaving for Barranca and Puente Bolivar (Las Palmeras), to study the possibilities of our next housing project for single moms and people in need.

Waylon, if you see this, Hannelore gave her first monies to two moms this evening, and earlier in church services. You should have seen the smiles......

Talk to you tomorrow evening.

Love you all.


John and Hannelore

FIRST FEW DAYS

Tonite I finished the first course on a Christ-centered Life. We had about 50 students which is a very good response for this particular campus. The anointing of God was all over the classroom. People`s lives were changed. We pray that many of them come to the conclusion that Jesus in us is the only thing we will ever need.

A bloodvessel in Hannelore`s eye burst and initially it really looked bad. There must have been some additional pressure and being on warfarin did not help the situation. Hannelore decided not to go to the doctor or a clinic. She is feeling a little better. However, she is still pretty tired from all the work she did before we went to Peru, then a long flight and then to sit and listen to her husband teach for 1 1/2 days straigth.

I slipped on slippery cement in front of the church. Praise the Lord that I did not get injured badly because I took a bad fall.

My interpreters, Fernando and Daniela, did a fantastic job today.

We also connected back with some very good friends of ours, Max-Caleb and Udo-Barbara and the kids. It was really good to see them again.

Tomorrow morning I will be preaching in two services in IBE-Surco and one evening service at Pastor Pedro`s church in San Martin de Porres. Monday morning we are leaving for a one day trip to Barranca to do some preliminary work for the housing project in Puente Bolivar-Las Palmeras.

See you then. Please continue to pray for us.


John and Hannelore

ARRIVED AND PREPARING FOR THE TASK

We had a wonderful flight from Saskatoon to Lima. We even arrived earlier than expected and had to wait at Lima airport for our rides to the hotel.

As I had an intestinal bug before we flew, we took it easy yesterday and today I am preparing for my first teaching session at our campus in Surco-Lima, which is at Iglesia Biblica Emmanuel. I will be teaching on a Christ-centred Life. So many in the church of today do not know what is means to be IN Christ. They are attending a Christian church regularly, following the church`s teachings, but are never taught how to BE in Christ. They are missing the boat... The church needs to know what it means to DISCIPLE newly born again Christians. God wants us to make disciples, not church members..... God wants tus to make disciples, not get individuals saved...... And to make disciples does not mean to teach pet doctrines...... It means to teach people who they are IN Christ so that they can live IN Christ and be IN Christ. That will be the main theme on our classes in Surco.

On Sunday, I will be preaching in three separate services. More about that in one of our next blogs.

Please pray for us. We love Peru and the Peruvian people.

John and Hannelore

JUST ONE MORE DAY

In just one more day, we will be in Lima. Today, I found out that there is a great chance that Jubilation or CHAKAM will receive considerable funding to build more houses for single moms. PTL!!! As soon as we know, we will inform you.

If there is anyone who is willing to support our housing project in Peru, please let us know by leaving a message on the message board. It costs approximately $ 1,500 (Canadian) to renovate, or replace one house.

We are also continuing to work on the exchange program between the Saskatchewan Cree and Tres Unidos de Matereni. We now have two new Canadian Lead Partners, Lac La Ronge Indian Band (Chief Tammy Searson-Cook) and the John Cochrane Band (Chief John Dorion).

Talk to you tomorrow.

John and Hannelore

OUR ITINERARY

Hannelore and I are leaving on Tuesday. This will be our itinerary during our very, very short, but very, very busy trip to Peru.

We will arrive on Wednesday evening in Lima. Thursday, we wil have some planning meetings to discuss our next extended outreach into Peru in the early part of 2009.

On November 7th, 2008 (evening) and November 8th, 2008 (all day and evening), we will be teaching a new course called "A Christ-Centered Life". We are expecting about 30 to 40 students which, with part-timers, could be as high as 100.

On November 9th, 2008 I will be preaching 2x in the morning services at Iglesia Biblica Emmanuel in Surco-Lima and 1x in the evening services at Iglesia de Dios in San Martin de Porres-Lima.

The next day, we will be travelling about 300 km north of Lima, to inspect some of the houses we built for single moms during our trip out in April/May. At the same time, we will be visiting our official campus in Barranca.

On November 11th, 2008, I will be preaching in Iglesia Biblica Emmanuel in Tablada de Lurin, situated in one of the sandhills surrounding Lima. At the same time, we will be checking out another pair of houses we built the last time we were there.

During the rest of our visit, we will have a number of planning meeting to deal with various on-going projects such as the exchange program between the Saskatchewan Cree and a jungle tribe in Peru, and our next housing project.

On November 12th, 2008, late at night, we are returning back to Canada.

Please pray for us.

Pastors John and Hannelore

BACK TO PERU

It almost feels like we never left. We left Peru at the end of May and now we are preparing to return on November 5th, 2008. We simply can not stay away from the wonderful people in Lima and Barranca.

This time, we will only have a small team - just Hannelore and myself.

We will be arriving in Lima on November 5th, 2008. There is a relatively heavy schedule with preaching, teaching and meetings. CHAKAM School of the Bible will be delivering a course called "A Christ-Centered Life" on November 7th & 8th, 2008 at Iglesia Biblica Emmanuel in Surco-Lima. We will preach on November 9th, 2008 in both Surco-Lima and San Martin de Porres-Lima. On November 10th, 2008, we will quickly visit Barranca and will inspect the houses that we built in Las Palmeras-Puente Bolivar on our previous trip. Then we will preach in Tablada de Lurin on November 11th, 2008. We will return to Canada on November 12th, 2008 in the evening. A very short trip indeed.....

We wil stay in touch.

A NEW WEEK, A NEW DAY

Last evening, we said goodbye to Christopher, who left back for Canada after a short-term stay of about 2 weeks. He had a wonderful time and he is intending to come back to Peru if and when he can (he says at least once a year). He caught the "short-term missions" bug!!! PTL!

This week we are having a number of future ministry planning meeting. On Sunday I will be preaching in a new church in Northern Lima, Iglesia Biblica Emmanuel. They are planning the formation of a new mega-church in that area of Lima. Currently, they have about 500 members.

We are also wrapping up our pilot project with social housing for single moms. Hannelore has done a wonderful job coordinating all the workers (carpenters, painters, glass installers, cement specialists, etc...) and she has also kept the financial records. If I did not have her, I would not have been able to preach and teach as I did. Thanks Hannelore.

I, personally, am facing some major medical problems. I will inform you about that when I come back to Canada in about two weeks. Please pray for me.

MOTHERS DAY

Tomorrow is Mothers Day in Peru. We will be celebrating by having Hannelore and Margaret preaching in three services in two churches tomorrow morning and tomorrow afternoon.

We will also bless poor moms with gifts tomorrow afternoon. We are also going to dedicate two new houses we built for single moms in Tablada de Lurin.

Our course on "Walking with God" completed last night. Seventeen students from the church in San Martin de Porres graduated from this course. There is a strong desire among the leadership of this church, which is in revival, to have an official campus of CHAKAM established there.

Next week, Christopher is leaving back for Canada on Monday evening. We have a number of important planning meetings to prepare ourselves for our next trip, most likely and if God willing, in November of 2008.

John and Hannelore

CONTINUED PROBLEMS

Sunday evening, we ministered in Iglesia de Dios in San Martin de Porres. Just before the service, Margaret slipped on the stairs inside the church and injured herself. The next day, we found out that she had two minor fractures in her ankle. She is now in a cast and walks with an arm crutch. Please pray for her.

As I still had some problems with my back, Christopher filled in preaching for me that Sunday evening. He did a fantastic job preaching about "Holiness" in a Pentecostal church. Pastor Pedro, who is the pastor of the church and a member on CHAKAM´s International Advisory Board, made an altar call request after Christopher´s preaching and more than 100 people responded.

Since Monday, we started to deliver our course on "Walking with God" in San Martin de Porres. We have about 20 students each evening.

In between preaching and teaching, Hannelore is nursing Margaret and she is doing the shopping and cooking. Hannelore is also in charge of coordinating the interpreter services. She is also negotiating the housing project. Yesterday, Hannelore bought five houses for five families. We hope that they will be constructed before we leave on May 21st, 2008. Hannelore is getting tired, but she is holding up well. We will need a deserved holiday when we are back.

With all the physical problems we encountered this time, I plead with everyone that visits our blog to pray fervently for the rest of our mission. Thanks.

URGENT PRAYER REQUEST

Two days ago, John Fryters suffered a severe sciatica attack. We were still in Barranca and we have had to re-schedule a number of events. Yesterday, he could not walk at all.

Today, we are back in Lima. Christopher has to fill in for a number of scheduled events. John is quite a bit better. Praise the Lord. Please pray with ferver!!!!

John and Hannelore

FINISHING THE WORK

I re-dedicated the little church in Puente Bolivar. The construction of the new church has almost been completed. About 20% of the roof has to be completed.

They had their first church service in the new building last night. I preached from I Kings 8 where it is described how Solomon dedicated the temple and prayed to God. The whole village came out, including the non-Christians. We had several salvations. The little church was literally packed.

Thanks to all who donated to this important project. You made a dream come through!!!! This little building will be a focal point in the community. It will change people and fulfill needs. The congregation, extremely poor, has made a commitment to finish the inside to the best of their abilities.

Our team prayed for many children until late in the evening. It was an unforgettable evening.

Tomorrow, we will return to put the final planning touches on building the new houses for two single parent families.

Saturday, we will be leaving back for Lima to start ministering in San Martin de Porres for about one week - another very poor neighbourhood. One of our members of our International Advisory Board, Pastor Pedro Sanchez, is pastoring the church in that area. We are also planning to visit IBE San Isidro, a church of about 5000, on Sunday morning. We have been invited to bring our course "Walking with God" in one of their church plants in Northern Lima. We are now changing our agendas to accommodate this request on May 16-18, 2008.

Please pray for us as some of our team members are ill and as we have been having some problems with interpreting services. In fact, we are without an interpreter for the next two days. Well, back to speaking from the heart in broken Spanish and with hand signs. God will help us.

John and Hannelore

OUR ASSIGNMENT IN BARRANCA AND PUENTE BOLIVAR IS ALMOST COMPLETED

Last Friday we completed our full course on "Walking with God" in Barranca. Fourteen students will be receiving course certificates from CHAKAM. However, almost 60 people were in attendance on a daily basis.

We had three salvations during these meetings.

We put Christopher to work on the first evening, giving a teaching (preaching) on ¨Warriors for God". He did a fantastic job. The Pastor of the local church, Pastor Rolando, was really impressed with Christopher´s ability as a preacher, particularly at his age. He is getting constructive feed-back and it is almost like a mentoring Bible School atmosphere for him here.
The next day, he gave his testimony at a youth meeting. There were approximately 30 youth, but with the adults in attendance, he had an audience of almost 80. He was so "into it" that he forgot about the time and spoke at lib for about 1 1/2 hours. Again, a wonderful job.

On Sunday evening, our total team went to San Pedro. I preached to a packed "little" church and we were there for the total evening. Three young men gave their hearts to the God and I asked Christopher to lead them to the Lord. HE IS GETTING HIS FEET WET!!!

In between these teaching and preaching assignments, we have to complete other international development assignments including the building of a small church in Puente Bolivar. The church has now been completed (80%), and tomorrow night we have a dedication meeting. This is going to be really exciting for this squatter community close to Barranca.

We are also involved in providing appropriate social housing to single moms (young parents with children) with the valuable assistance of the Saskatchewan Council For International Development. This international development project is totally separate from the work we are doing as a Bible College. The lead role in this project is carried out by Jubilation Program in Prince Albert. So far, we have selected four families. There houses are currently being demolished and replaced with pre-fabricated wooden units. The housing conditions for these families will be improved 1000%. It is so good to see their happy faces when we told them what we were going to do...

Also, in between, since Margaret and Christopher have not been here, when we have time we show them the sites. On Saturday, they saw the pre-Inca ruins of Caral. Yesterday, they were at Chorillos Beach and the Jesus statue in Barranca (on top of a hill overlooking Barranca). Today, they are visiting the seaport of Supe. And, of course, we have introduced them to the wonderful, colourful, "smelly"ful market of Barranca.

Till next time. If you read this posting, do not forget to leave a comment. Thanks.

CHANGING TEAMS

Yesterday Hannelore and Margaret drove by bus to Lima to bring Jess back to the airport. While Jess was leaving Canada, Christopher from the Prince Albert Church of the Nazarene was arriving at Lima airport. I could not go with them as I am still teaching every evening in Iglesia de Dios in Barranca.

Hannelore and Margaret and Christopher are expected to arrive back in Barranca today at about 4 pm local time. As soon as they arrive, we will put Christopher to work getting used to the culture, the people and preparing for the youth meeting on Saturday evening. He will be giving his testimony at a youth rally in Iglesia de Dios.

We are also planning to go and visit the pre-Inca ruins in Caral on Saturday.

Our schedules are somewhat being changed as we are receiving a number of requests to preach and teach at various different churches. We will start that on Sunday night at a church we had not planned to go to. Well, that´s the way it goes here.

Some team members have been suffering from colds, the flu and some other minor physicial problems. PLEASE PRAY FOR US.

John

ARRIVED IN BARRANCA

After a 4 hour trip on the bus, we finally arrived in Barranca, Peru. Barranca is about 350 km north of Lima.

On Saturday, we went with Pastor Rolanda of the Iglesia de Dios to Puente Bolivar. CHAKAM has been building a brandnew church building in that squatter community. The roof has almost been completed. Today (Monday), we made financial arrangements to have the roof completed. Although not completely finished, we have requested if we can have a church service there in about 10 days. They will install some provisional lights and we will have a wonderful time, dedicating this new church building. The people in the village are very grateful for what we have done so far.

We also looked at replacing (demolishing) some single moms´ housing. We have potentially picked out a few sites.

Last evening, John preached in the church in Barranca about ¨Dangers to Avoid in the Local Church". We had about an attendance of well over 100 people. Two people (father and son) got saved at the end of the service. The wife (mother) was very, very happy.

Today, we are starting day one of our five day course on "Walking with God". Fernanda Torres has come down from Lima to translate for us.

The weather remains warm and beautiful. PTL!!!!!

Till next time.


Pastors John and Hannelore

FIRST UPDATE

We had an uneventful flight from Saskatoon/Toronto to Lima. While flying north to south does not give you jetlag, we took the first three days to rest and to do some sightseeing. When you go down with a team, particularly when there are first-timers such as Margaret, you have to do some sightseeing. We went to see the changing of the guards at the Presidential Palace. We did some shopping at various INCA markets and we saw the architectural building in Central Lima.

Hannelore and I have seen these things so many times - so we become tour guides. That saves us on interpreters-translators.

I preached three times at the Iglesia Biblica Emmanuel in Surco-Lima on Sunday. This is the church where CHAKAM´s Lima campus is located. It is so good to see that this campus is taking the materials we have taught them in the past and now are offering a number of courses throughout the Fall season (Lima Fall).

On Monday we started with our first course at the Lima campus. We are teaching a course called ¨Walking with God¨, and we have 39 students in the first classes. Last night (Wednesday evening), we were joined by a number of others because it was there regular service night. We had about 80 students and preached on ¨The Fire of God¨.

In a few hours, we are leaving for Tablada de Lurin and have our first planning meeting with officials in that squatter community. We are planning to demolish and rebuild two houses for single moms in Tablada. The moms do not know about this as of yet - so it is going to be quite something to see their faces when we tell them what we have in mind. Their current houses are a collection of carton boxes, some wooden plates and some scrap metal. We hope to replace them with wooden pre-fab units placed on a cement foundation.

This weekend we are leaving for Barranca, 300 km north of Lima to start the same course (see above) in our campus there. We will catch up with you when we are there.

Please continue to pray for us. Things are going well, but prayer will give us more strength, more anointing and more wisdom to accomplish everything He wants us to accomplish when we are here. We are looking forward to the arrival of Christopher Pompu from Prince Albert, who will join us next Thursday. We can´t wait to see you, Christopher....

Always in His Service,

John and Hannelore Fryters
Jess Meredith & Margaret Reynaud

NEW BLOG

Just created a new blog called "blogsermon". Will attempt to write a regular sermon and post it on this blog - blogsermon.blogspot.com

Hope and pray that you will enjoy it.

CHRISTOPHER HAS JOINED US FOR SURE

Today we ordered Christopher's flight. He will be joining us in the middle of April for about two weeks. We told him that his life and heart is going to be changed forever. His is a wonderful youth leader in the Prince Albert Church of the Nazarene who is on fire for Jesus. This fire is going to change to a real fire storm because of his God-ordained encounters in Peru.

UPCOMING MISSIONS TRIP TO PERU

Within a few weeks, once again, we will be leaving for Peru. We will be there from April 8th, 2008 to May 22nd, 2008. Besides preaching and teaching in our two CHAKAM campuses, we are assisting in building new church in Puente Bolivar and we will demolish and replace some 5 houses of poor single moms in Tablada de Lurin and Puente Bolivar.

We will post weekly so that you all can see and read what we are doing.

Our team will consist of John, Hannelore, Margaret, Jess and Christopher. Our interpreters are Daniela and Fernando and maybe some others. Please keep us in your prayers!