La Luz de Cristo para Perú
Volume 5 Issue 11
November 2010
Sharing Love in a Public School | Tinyari
What can 14 North Americans do with an entire Peruvian ele-
mentary school in one week??? Well, basically, they managed
to turn it upside down, inside out, and bring it to it’s knees by
sharing the love of Christ!
Covenant UMC from Dothan, Alabama sent a short-term mission
team to Peru to serve in the pueblo of Tinyari, home to one of the
Kuyay Talpuy education projects. Just operating since August
(two months), this particular Kuyay project functions within the
public school. The project came about when the public school
teachers in Tinyari asked for help… bible classes and religion
are mandatory in the public school here, but the teachers didn’t
know how to teach those subjects. Our Kuyay Talpuy staff work
alongside the teachers to teach bible lessons each week in the
public school and to share the love of Christ with the teachers
and the students and families touched by this school.
The team from Covenant UMC
expressed a desire to work with
children’s ministries or English
outreach or sport’s ministries…
with the Kuyay Talpuy project, we
were able to incorporate all of the
team’s desires! After talking with
the school director (principal), the
school gave the team full reign to
do whatever they would like to do
to supplement the education of the
students of Tinyari. So, the follow-
ing plan was born:
The students rotated in 45 minute
shifts to each of four classes each day.
Bible classes / VBS station - Part of the team worked in the
VBS station, leading bible stories, songs, skits, and crafts each
day. The students loved that their classroom had been trans-
formed into the rainforest for a week for the VBS theme!
Sports camp - Students learned a new game each day. Several
team members worked to teach kick ball, tee ball / baseball, Fris-
bee games, and other North American typical games.
Reading Station - The McEuen family has a ministry here that
works to incorporate literature into the schools and into the lives
of children and families. Tinyari is a very impoverished school
with NO children’s books. The Reading Station allowed the
McEuen’s to bring their mobile library into the school and read
aloud to the students each day, teach a values lesson via a
Bible story, do a craft related to the reading lesson for the day,
and allowed the students to individually choose books and have
time to do some self-guided reading (library time).
English Outreach - Team members played games to teach
and reinforce English vocabulary. Students learned color
words, animals, fruits & vegetables, and body parts in English.
They played games like Bingo and Memory and Concentration
for reinforcement. And they sang songs in English, for exam-
ple, Head Shoulders Knees and Toes and
the Hokey Pokey.
The week was a huge success! The teach-
ers were very happy with the way in which
the team from Covenant UMC taught and
treated the students. The team absolutely
fell in love with the students. The students
learned a lot about love by seeing it and
experiencing it through the actions of the
team that came to serve. Our Peruvian
Kuyay Talpuy staff was able to spend a full
week with the teachers and build better
relationships with them, which led to the
teachers asking for a separate bible study
time dedicated just to them!
At the end of the week, there were lots of tears, but lots of
smiles and happy memories, too. The best thing about tears is
what it means about the state of your heart… if your heart is
broken enough to shed tears, then you must have felt deeply,
loved deeply and connected with God in a new way. That’s
really good news!!! Those who sow in tears will reap with
songs of joy. He who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow,
will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with him.
~Psalm 126: 5-6
 You Might be a Missionary...
True stories from the daily lives
of The Drums

It’s time once again for another edition of You Might be a Missionary (you guys never seem to get tired of hearing about how
strange our life can be!).

You might be a missionary in Peru if:

 While watching Planet Earth on TV your daughter shouts out, “Hey! There’s that jaguar that we always see at the water-
fall in the jungle! He’s so cute. When can we hike back to see him?”
 You can say “tastes like chicken” to any number of interesting foods and actually know for a fact that IT DOES really taste
like chicken.
 The best food you have ever eaten in your life was cooked over a wood fire in an adobe house with a dirt floor by a bare-
footed mamita in traditional Quechua clothing, served to you on a broken dish with no silver-
ware as you sat on a sheepskin-covered wooden bench with several dogs laying at your feet
and chickens running in and out of the kitchen… definitely the best eatin’ ever!!!
 You have harvested oranges with native Ashaninka children, shared traditional drink with mem-
bers of the Nomatsiguenga tribe, hunted snakes in the jungle, or been invited to ride the feeder
river to the Amazon in canoes.
 You know the people who grew and harvested your morning coffee by name.
 The teachers at the public school trust you to take care of all 80 of their students while they go
to check on a sick colleague.
 Your six-year old daughter has ever been given charge of a flock of sheep for the day so the
shepherd can participate in a community cookout and party.
That’s just daily life for The Drums...

From Perú to a church near you —

The Drums speaking engagement calendar
We are packed and headed back “home” to the USA for our furlough/homeland ministry assignment. We will
be in the USA for 3 months, spending time with family & friends, reconnecting with churches and supporters,
and sharing the news from the field. You can catch up with us at any of the following speaking engagements:

December 12 - First Presbyterian Church; Bryan, Texas. Fellowship Hall (9:30-10:30 a.m.) . Mission
presentation, Q&A session, photos, videos, fellowship.
January 9 - Trinity Lutheran Church; Navasota, Texas. Fellowship Hall. Mission presentation, Q&A
session, photos, videos, fellowship.
January 15-16 - First United Methodist Church; Lafayette, Louisiana. Weekend schedule TBA.
January 23 - First Presbyterian Church; Shiro, Texas. Sanctuary / worship service.
January 27 - First UMC; Hearne, Texas. Men’s Bible Study. Mission presentation, Q&A session,
photos, videos, fellowship.
January 30 - A&M United Methodist Church; College Station, Texas. Sanctuary / worship service
presentations (8 a.m. & 11 a.m.). Fellowship Hall: Mission presentation, Q&A session, photos,
videos, fellowship (9:30 a.m.).
February 2 - First Presbyterian Church; Navasota, Texas. Family Life Center (Wednesday Fellowship
Supper 6 p.m.): Mission presentation, Q&A session, photos, videos, fellowship.
February 5-6 - Halltown Baptist Church; Halltown, Missouri. Weekend schedule TBA.
February 13 - Christ UMC; College Station, Texas. Sanctuary / The River worship service (9:30 a.m.)
February 15 - COMBINED FELLOWSHIP of First UMC Millican, Texas and First Baptist Church
Millican, Texas. Millican Community Center (6:30 p.m.)
February 20 - Christ UMC; College Station, Texas. Sanctuary / worship service presentations (8 a.m.
& 11 a.m.) Fellowship Hall (9:30 a.m.): Mission presentation, Q&A session, photos, videos,
fellowship.
February 27 - First United Methodist Church; Bryan, Texas. Fellowship Hall (9:30 a.m.): Mission
presentation, Q&A session, photos, videos, fellowship.
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Prayers
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Praises and Prayers for the new

The Drums | HOW TO CONTACT US disciple projects in Iscos, Patarco-

cha and Tinyari. We have new
MAILING ADDRESS: LAURIE & BILLY DRUM...JR. SAN JOSE 278…URB. SAN CARLOS...HUANCAYO, PERU workers and a new effort to teach
the Bible and to usher new believ-
TELEPHONE: 979.985.5268 (TEXAS PHONE NUMBER—RINGS US IN PERU)
ers into relationships with others
EMAIL: BILLY@DRUMSFORCHRIST.ORG OR LAURIE@DRUMSFORCHRIST.ORG so they can grow and learn more.
NEWSLETTER: VISIT THE WEBSITE AT WWW.DRUMSFORCHRIST.ORG AND CLICK “NEWSLETTERS” Pray specifically for Darwin, Ro-
SUPPORT US: USE THE FORM ABOVE, OR GO TO http://www.themissionsociety.org/people/drum cio, Johanna, and Pastor Beto as
they lead this effort.

MEET OUR TEAM - JULIA Pray for the Kuyay Talpuy educa-
tion projects and for the communi-
ties of Iscos, Patarcocha, and
MEET THE PERUVIANS WHO MINISTER ALONGSIDE US TO SHARE THE LOVE OF CHRIST WITH THEIR OWN PEOPLE Tinyari.

Meet Julia! There just aren’t enough words to express how Pray for our teachers as they
important and how special this lovely woman is to us. Truly, strive to teach and help people to
she has made an incredible difference in the Kuyay Talpuy apply Godly principles in their
program and in the lives of the children and families that we lives.
serve.

We met Julia when we first began our research and scouting Praises for transformation in
for the Kuyay program in early 2009. Julia is single grand- communities, families and indi-
mother and definitely deserves to win “Sweetest Lady in Peru” vidual hearts!
every year. We hired her to cook hot, balanced lunches for our
students. The students walked to her home at lunch time and Pray for our sons in Texas, Ryan
she served lunch in an open-air patio area.
and Miles. Pray for God to con-
After graduating our first class of students last December, we tinue to move and do mighty
had issues with our classroom in the town square and with the things in their lives.
mayor, so we were forced to begin looking for a new class-
room or building. Julia to the rescue!!! She offered up the Pray for us as we begin to transi-
During days off or school holidays /
once open patio in her home, closing it in with adobe brick and tion to the USA for a few months
vacations, Julia literally cries. “My
building a roof overhead for the students. She also added a of speaking engagements and
whole body hurts when the children
bathroom facility. We have held classes in Julia’s home now
aren’t here. I’m so sad. Everything I relationship renewal .
for a full year and she continues to cook our hot lunches and
do, I do for those babies,” she says.
serve as honorary grandmother to all of our students. In our
Julia has a heart of gold and we are Pray for our Peruvian workers as
anniversary celebration, the teachers elected her to be the
so blessed to have her as a part of
Queen of the Parade and she marched in front with her bou- they pick up the slack and stand in
the Kuyay Talpuy team!
quet of yellow roses and a giant smile. the gap while we are in The
States. Pray for strength and wis-
dom for them as they serve the
people of Peru. Pray that they
grow and flourish as a team.
 You may remember the article in the October 2010 newsletter about our student Kenyi (child with
hydrocephalitis). Soon after that article posted, Kenyi had to return to Lima for yet another pro-

ayer
cedure on the shunt in his brain. The procedure went well and Kenyi is back in school and con-
e r o f P r tinuing to learn more and more every day. As for his doctors, they were stunned! His parents
T he P ow po rt for K e nyi told us that Kenyi’s doctors in Lima called Kenyi “a miracle”. They couldn’t believe that he was
doing all that he was doing… walking, running, writing… they were simply amazed. They admit-
e
Praise r ted to believing that he wouldn’t ever walk or make any kind of progress because of the damage
that had been done to his brain before he was diagnosed with hydrocephalitis. The doctors have
requested that we make a video of his walking and running (especially his epic 50 yard dash) for
the hospital and for his files.

So glad that we serve such an AWESOME God!!! A

God that still does miracles and a God that showed
Himself in a BIG WAY in the life of Kenyi!

Miss Rosio and Kenyi

SHARE THE LOVE OF CHRIST WITH THE PEOPLE OF PERU.

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