Peru MISSIONS INVOLVEMENT
OF HHBC
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OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN COMAS-LIMA,PERU
Jack Goldfarb Christian School in PERU
Our Associate Pastor, Rev. Jack Goldfarb, in 1999, helped to establish a vibrant Christian School in Lima, Peru. It had humble beginnings of 23 students, 3 teachers and a few classrooms. Today they have an enrollment of well over 200 and many more on the waiting list. They now have 26 teachers and the building they are using has had several more stories added to it in the subsequent years. HHBC actively supports this mission ministry with its continual funding and actual missions trips to Peru. Rev Goldfarb has been in the Gospel Ministry for some 40+ years! He was born in Peru and is a naturalized US citizen. He serves on our staff as an Associate Pastor and Membership Counselor. He and His wife Bonnie are a tremendous blessing to Milton and our church family!
In June of 2003, 24 people from Hickory Hammock Baptist Church went to Comas-Lima, Peru to the Jack Goldfarb Christian School and to its sponsoring mother Church - Christian Missionary Alliance Church of Comas, Pastored by Mario Perez.
We helped to build the 4th floor of the school. We worked with thousands of children over a 10 day period in vacation bible school type settings. We took money, clothing and supplies to the school and people of Comas. We conducted medical clinics with medical professionals that went with us. We preached in 7 churches in 11 worship services over 10 days. There were over 170 professions of faith. We spoke to over 1000 people in another Christian School across town in a specially called assembly for that purpose.
We preached 2 major youth conferences challenging them to purity and faithfulness. There were over 1500 youth reached in these conferences. While we were there the country of Peru was declared under martial law by the President of Peru. There was also a 5.0 earthquake with tremors every day after that until we left. But, the team never lost heart or hope. We continued to preach, build, minister, teach and heal. The Lord blessed mightily!
Upon our return, we challenged the church to fully support the 70 children in the school that do not have sponsors for their school tuiton for the next year. ALL 70 CHILDREN will be sponsored by HHBC! Praise Jesus and the committed folks of HHBC for meeting this challenge. We lived in their homes, ate meals with them, worshipped with them and experienced God with them. We laughed together, we cried together and we celebrated together. Jesus was victorious, our churches were united in Christ and in Heart. We now have brothers and sisters for life in COMAS, Peru. Pastor Mario Perez (wife- Rosa, daughter - Debbie, son - David/Kevin, daughter - Hannah)email - mario_rosa_perez@hotmail.com
UPDATES
In July of 2003, Pastor Luis Ojeda, who was our interpreter in Peru visited the Pensacola area and came to HHBC for a week! He preached in several morning worship services a Weds. night service and spoke at our 50+ meeting. He was a great inspiration to the church family. Pastor Luis was so happy to get to meet the rest of our wonderful church family.
Email Pastor Luis at -luis_ojeda_d@yahoo.com
We are in continual contact with Pastor Mario of the mother church. They are trying to work out an area wide, city wide Youth Crusade to be held in Lima sometime in January or February of 2004. He believes that they can get thousands of youth to come and hear Pastor Carl Gallups of HHBC. Pray for this possibility of a great work for Jesus in Lima!
From Dec 4, 2003 until Dec 9, 2003 - Bro. Jack, his wife Bonnie and Pastor Carl were back in Peru. They attended and participated in the first graduating class services for the Jack Goldfarb Christian School, representing HHBC! They preached in 3 different churches on Sunday - all day long. There were 48 professions of faith in Jesus Christ! The Team took with them more clothing, more financial support from HHBC and presented two beautiful plaques, one to the church and one to the School indicating our heartfelt and prayerful commitment and partnership with them in the Gospel. The Team also made plans to go back in March - April of 2003 to do an area wide city youth crusade. Please pray for the ongoing work in Peru and at the JGCC!
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE APPEARED IN THE MILTON - PRESS GAZETTE -
HICKORY HAMMOCK BAPTIST - GOES TO PERU! EVANGELISTIC CAMPAIGN - A GREAT SUCCESS.
Pastors Carl Gallups and Jack Goldfarb were sent out by Hickory Hammock Baptist Church on March 25, 2004 for a 10-day evangelistic crusade in the city of Lima, Peru. Pastor Gallups preached the crusade and Pastor Jack Goldfarb translated the messages into his original native tongue of Peruvian Spanish.
Pastor Goldfarb was born and raised in Lima, Peru. When he was a young man, he came to the United States. He joined the United States Army and eventually retired as a Major. He has spent the last 44 years of his life in the Gospel Ministry. Pastor Jack and his wife, Bonnie have been in the Milton area for a little over 20 years. He has pastored a church here in town and then retired and has served as interim pastor and pulpit supply in many churches in the county since then.
Several years ago, Pastor Jack and Bonnie returned to Peru and helped to establish a Christian School in the Comas-Lima, Peru area. This is a particularily severly poverty stricken area of Lima. Lima, Peru is a city of over 8 million people. Over 75% of them live at or below the poverty level. Pastor Jack wanted to give back something of the blessings of the Lord that he has enjoyed to the people of his native heritage. The people named the school after Pastor Jack...The Jack Goldfarb Christian School in Comas-Lima. The School now has 234 students and 25 teachers and staff.
For almost three years, Jack has been an Associate Pastor at the Hickory Hammock Baptist Church. When the church learned of his school missionary work in Lima, they wanted to join in with him. Three times in less than a year - groups of people from Hickory Hammock Baptist Church have been to Lima and the School mission.
They have gone with medical supplies, medical clinic personnel, VBS programs for the children, clothing and financial assistance. The church has helped to supply the school with computers and advanced instructional materials. Everytime the church sends a team; the churches in the area have asked Pastor Carl to preach. Everytime they have gone - there have been many decisions for Jesus.
The last time they were there, December of 2003, several Pastors from Lima asked if Pastors Carl and Jack could return to preach a citywide crusade. So, on March 25, 2004 they left again for Lima. This time they left with a suitcase full of medical supplies and Bibles in hand ready to preach the Gospel one more time for the eager and gospel hungry people of Lima.
In this crusade conducted in several churches, outdoor parks and meeting halls over a ten day time period, there were over 800 specific decisions for Jesus! Pastor Carl Gallups, the senior Pastor of HHBC observed, "With over eight hundred decisions for Jesus in just ten days...what a miraculous moving of the Holy Spirit! It would take ten to fifteen years for a single large and growing church like Hickory Hammock to reach that many people for the Lord here in Milton. God did it in Lima in just ten days!"
Recently the growing church at Hickory Hammock made a "heart change", according to Pastor Carl Gallups. "We decided that even though we were quickly running out of room for Sunday School and worship services...that we would not spend millions on new facilities. Instead, we covenented together to spruce up our current facilites and double and triple up if necessary their use. We then decided that we would put our financial efforts, not in new buildings, but into MISSIONS WORK and MISSIONS GIVING...a lot of it being at the Jack Goldfarb Christian School and other missions in and around Lima." Pastor Gallups continued, "The blessings that the Lord has given in response to the heart change are too numerous to recount...and they continue to come!"
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM THE MARCH-APRIL 2004 TRIP - The JGCS in Comas-Lima, Peru has named the upcoming December Graduation Ceremonies (The Second one in School History) in honor of HHBC and has requested that Pastor Carl and Sister Pam attend to represent the Church family! Pastor Mario said that due to the great success of the Evangelistic Campaign, that he would like to try and fly Brother Carl into the interior of Peru while he is here in December to do an abbreviated evangelistic campaign to those peope as well! Pray for the possibility of this event in December of 2004.
UPDATE FROM DECEMBER 2004 TRIP - Pastor. Carl, his wife - Pam, Pastor Jack and his wife Bonnie were sent to Lima from HHBC. They represented our church at the 2nd Graduating Class Ceremonies of JGCC. The Graduating Class was named in honor of HHBC this year. They took a suprise gift from HHBC of $14,000 for the school to build a Science Lab. They will now be the only school (public or private) in the entire Comas area of some 2 million people to have a science lab. The people were ecstatic with the gift. Pastor Carl and Bro. Jack preached in 6 different services including two large youth rallys (over 600 in attendance both times) and a family-marraige dedication service. There were many public decisions for Jesus. They also used this time to have several business meetings with the leaders of the churches and the school to plan a church wide mission trip in July of 2005. We are now planning, working, saving, praying and preparing for that trip.
UPDATE FROM July 2005 TRIP - HHBC sent out another Mission Team to Peru! We had 26 people that went and worked out of the JGC School and the Mother Church in Comas. We took medical missionaries, teaching teams, school assembly teaching teams, a worship dance team, a worship drama team, worship music ministry team and praise band, a construction assistance crew and Bro. Carl and Bro. Jack were once again our evangelistic preaching team. We were allowed into 4 public schools for public assemblys to present the Gospel message, ministering to over 1500 children in total. We preached and ministered our worship service ministries in 7 different services in 5 different churches. There were over 175 recorded professions of faith in Jesus through our evangelistic efforts and the Lord's annointing! Our medical missionaries ministered to several hundred people and our entire team participated in the "hands on" feeding thousands of children at various "feeding stations" up in the mountains outside of Lima in conjunction with the "Guttenburg" missionaries out of Germany.
This year, we had sent down several months before us, our very own Christina Boos and our very first missionary from HHBC. Christina was Valedictorian of Milton High School this year. Just a couple weeks after graduation she was on her way to PERU! She lived in Lima with Pastor Mario and his family and taught English in the JGCS. When we arrived, she joined up with us and joined our mission work until we left. She stayed on another month and then arrived home to great fanfare from her church family at the Pensacola Regional Airport.
Brother Carl celebrated his 50th birthday in Peru this year! Ask him about how he was "arrested" by the Peruvian police one night on our way to an evangelistic campaign. You won't believe his story - but it is TRUE! We thank the Lord Jesus for our brothers and sisters in Lima, Peru. Once again we lived in their homes, ate meals with them, worshipped with them and experienced God with them. We laughed together, we cried together and we celebrated together. Jesus was victorious, our churches were once again united in Christ and in Heart.
UPDATE FROM MARCH 2006 TRIP - Bro. Jack and Bro. Carl went to the Church at Comas and to the JGCC to do several things:Assist the teaching of Seminary Classes there for the training of indigenious Pastors and Ministers
To Preach in several worship services and teach specialty classes for Young Adults on Christian Living
To spend time at the school with the teachers, students and administrators and to go over the financial statements of the school to insure integrity.
To take a monetary gift from HHBC to JGCC for the provision of school scholarships for the neediest of the children.
2008 TRIP
Pastor Carl, Pastor Jack and Sister Bonnie made a 5 day trip. They went to check on Matt Faulk and Christina Boos - 2 missionaries sent to JGCS (paid by HHBC) to assist the school for the entire school year. Matt and Christina were sent down around February of 2008 and will stay until January of 2009. Christina will be teaching English and Matt will serve in a security/assistance capacity to the school and teachers. The trip was made to assure the progress of our missionaries and take gifts of money and additional supplies for the school year. Pastor Carl preached again in the mother church worship services.
2009
Matt Faulk went back down to the school for another school year. He will serve this year as Dean of Students...ministering to the children, teachers and parents of the children. Christina remained in the U.S. to finish up her college degree program. Pastor Carl and Jack Goldfarb, Jr. went down in May for 5 days to spend time with Matt, the School officials, Pastor Angel and the Church family. Pastor Carl preached in all 5 morning services. They took with them a love offering from HHBC for over $3,000 to purchase Physical Education equipment for the school.
2010
Pastor Jack, Sister Bonnie and their family (Jack-Jr., Susan, Ashley) Traveled to the School in December to attend and assist in the graduation of the first Senior graduating class of the Jack Goldfarb Christian School. The visited with School and church officials, students and classrooms. They took assistance funds and scholarship funds as gifts from HHBC.
2011
Pastor Carl went down to be with the Comas Church Family, Pastor Angel and family, and the School. He took the scholarship funds for the upcoming school year, and visited with all the teachers, administrators and church and school officials. He visisted all the students in every classroom of the school. Pastor Carl preached in the Saturday evening services of the Church. There was no church on that Sunday morning because Peru was having its national elections and all the churches were closed on Sunday.