Love Extreme

Love Extreme is the name of the Big Event we had in Arequipa in July. We called it that because our goal was to show Arequipa God's extreme love. It started when a group of short-term volunteers arrived from the States on June 11. We put them to work mostly with promotion for the Big Event on June 19th. We hung up posters and handed out fliers.

This is a group who went out at night to hang up posters.


Rico Cuy, the Extreme Nazarene Mascot was a big help during the promotion. Nothing gets people's attention like a giant guinea pig climbing on a combi(bus). He helped us hand out fliers and helped with the taxi promotion we did.

We gave taxi drivers 100 fliers and put a poster on their back window. The taxi driver to have the most people come to the event with one of their fliers won a brand new laptop.

In addition to the promotion we also put the short-termers to work doing impact.
One of the impact projects we did was Kids' Festivals. Kids' Festivals include:
Games:

Puppets:

and of course Rico Cuy had to get in on the fun:

He decided to try his hand at jump rope.

We also had medical clinics. These clinics offered free medical care to people who couldn't afford to go to the doctor.


I also got the opportunity to take a group to each of my three church plant sites and pray over them.


The Main Event of Love Extreme took place on July 19th. We set up at a fairgrounds with conferences for men and women and a huge kids' festival.
The Main Speaker for the Woman's Conference was Tammy Trent.

The main speaker for the Men's Conference was Felix Vargas.

The Main Event of the day was Nick Vujicic. He spoke at the end of the day to around 10,000 people.

By the end of the day we had over 1,000 cards filled out with information from people who had made decisions to follow Jesus Christ. Starting the 21st we called each person who had filled out a card and set up visits with them. Following that we started setting up cell groups. Cell groups are small Bible studies that take place in peoples houses.

Now I am back in school and every Friday my partner, Mapi, and I lead a cell group. There will be another blog coming very soon. Hopefully by the end of the week, talking about everything that is going on in my everyday life.