A Van for El Arca

Hello everyone! This is from my dad:

"With the oncoming school season, I thought I’d open up the opportunity for friends and family to help towards a van for the children.

Right now, we have only one vehicle for all purposes at our children’s home—a pickup truck. We use it to shop, work, attend church, run errands, and, last but not least, take our El Area students to school.

There are 10 school-goers in the home, which means that in the daily rides to and from school, some inevitably have to ride in the truck bed. (A good bit of the school year in Peru is during the rainy season… in the Amazon jungle!)

This poses an obvious difficulty for our students.

Aside from solving the rain-school issue, a van would let me take the children on family outings—which is something that I’ve wanted to do for a long time without the means. (A second vehicle would also give our old faithful pickup truck a break from the workload it currently carries!)

These two things would be an immense blessing to El Arca Children’s Home.

Used 15 passenger vans are going for about $15,000

If you want to help, use this link to donate and/or pass the word along!"

[Joshua speaking:]

My dad is one of those people whose life speaks for itself.

We all want to be part of something bigger; a cause, a calling, a story. Myself included. But only every now and then someone comes along who is willing to leave the safety of his/her job, country, comfort zone, and friend group to pursue that higher calling.

Out of those few who do in fact leave, many don't stay beyond the first few years. It's no one's fault; it's life. It happens.

But a very, very small number of people leave and forget what they left behind them.

My dad is someone who doesn't look back. He hasn't looked back for over twenty years.

I don't think I'll ever see him back in his home country—he's decided that God took him to Peru and that God is keeping him there. He has no other life than to watch over the children God gave him.

As far as donations go, every cent of support goes to meeting their needs and giving them a loving, Godly home.

(As I was writing this, learned that the Children's Home's church-going was replaced by house church because the truck was not able to fit all the children inside.)