You all…just look at the top photo in this post! That wide open space, that beautiful lush land? That’s Carahuasi, Peru! But first, here is the agenda for today… As promised, I’m going to explain where the name for this blog, “Rich Faith Rising”, came from. I’ll tell you of the incredible event, the one many […]
11,200 feet up. Piercing the sky, into the heavens, Cusco sits deep in the Andes. A center hub for a world of activity. People fly in from Europe, China, Australia, and of course, America… Seeking their own personal trek to Machu Picchu, the Mountain of Seven Colors, or a host of other journeys that promise to […]
It seemed so counter-intuitive. Why run into the very place that had harbored so much pain? Why not hide, race away, from the source of it all? The plane landed. My feet were still hesitant, after having dreams I would die, not knowing what that might look like. We step on the soil of my husband’s […]
“I’m going to die”, “I just know it”….days before we left, panic gripped me. I couldn’t breath. I hadn’t been this way on my way to Peru twenty-two years earlier. So, why now? For some reason, this trip had doom and gloom written all over it. Was it just me? Or should I be, actually worried? […]
I didn’t want to touch my feet to the soil. It had burned me, stung me, tainted my innards with an offensive taste and smell. I was poisoned by love. Ran from the call. Would have rather served in China or Guatamala, or the barren lands of Africa… Before believing God might call us here. But […]
TODAY WE ARE CELEBRATING $920. of the $2600. has been raised for the new school shoes for the children who live high up in the Andes Mountains of Peru. Even more amazingly, 99% of those funds came within the first 23 hours of our campaign. (So incredible what God can do when we put our trust […]