Peru Ministry News
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Learn about helping the poor in Peru by
sponsoring a family and possible much more. A
PowerPoint presentation.
• Deacon Lee's
Peru blog
• Many
Photos and a movie from a January visit
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Photos of chapel from construction to fiesta after first
Mass
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St. Monica Chapel in Village of Los
Polvorines
In
August 2006, Fr. Uhen visited St. Monica Parish in Edmond
and suggested that it might be nice if we funded a chapel
in a poor village near Piura. We immediately jumped on the
idea and St. Monica Capilla was build with the help of
missionaries from St. Monica in June 2007. Deacon Lee
blessed the chapel that summer
The chapel is in Sector C of the village of Los Polvorines.
This large and relatively new village is divided into three
sectors and the St. Monica Capilla is in the southern most
sector. The chapel is visible from the Pan American
Highway.
This January a metal roof was added to the chapel, with the
help of parishioner Dean Herzog. Fr. Uhen celebrated the
first
Mass in the chapel and Deacon Lee served as deacon.
It was fantastic! We also had a fiesta in the evening
during which Fr. Uhen, Dean, and Deacon Lee participated in
Peruvian
dances.
Since the village and chapel are new, they will require
nurturing to develop. Many marriages have to be regularized
and children baptized. The presence of the chapel will help
bring many into a regular relationship with Jesus.
To help establish the chapel as a pleasing place of
worship, we bought 43 chairs in January. A painting of St.
Monica is being prepared for dedication during the mission
trip this June. We have asked for a cost estimate for a
framed crucifix and an altar to replace the table.
The parish in Piura had its first stewardship fair in
January. St. Monica Capilla proudly displayed information
at their booth.
In April, St. Monica Parish began feeding breakfast 5 days
per week to 123 children in Sector C of the village. This
allows them to go to school with food in their bellies and
hopefully learn better. First
breakfast
• Clothes needed for
Peruvians.
St. Monica sponsors 87 families who live in northern Peru
on about $2 per day. Their parish has 35,000 people. We
make shipments to them once per quarter. Please leave used
clothing, shoes, and house-ware items in good condition in
bags in the Commons at St. John the Baptist at 9th and
Littler in Edmond. The door to the Commons is always open.
Photos
of clothes distribution.