PERU 2012 - Arrival in Amazon Basin

Pucallpa, Peru
Sunday, March 11, 2012
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Arrival in the Amazon Basin
After a grueling 16 hour bus ride over the Andes mountains we finally made it to Pucallpa from Lima. The ride to Pucallpa was crazy and beautiful at the same time. At one point we were at 17,000 feet elevation where we saw snow covered peaks illuminated by a full moon. Our heads ached from the altitude and our chests felt tight as though we couldn’t breathe. A man in uniform boarded the bus at 4:00 in the morning, who was most likely a guerrilla impersonating a soldier scaring us with stories of the area we were entering and asking us for money so that he could “protect” us.
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In Pucallpa we met up with Jen’s Jungle Ministry and ministered in quite a few of the local churches. In one church meeting we prayed for the people and they were all covered in gold dust by the end of the meeting. Jen’s church, “Luz Divina” is full of excitement, We were able to minister at that church as well. Life in the jungle is much different. At one point we had a torrential rain that turned the street that we were staying on into a giant river.
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Christian Young