While Ica, Peru may not be technically belong in Backroads Brazil, during a recent mission trip we were able to be of service to a hard-working local church, including throwing a Brazilian Night (the first ever, we were told) with much worship, Brazilian food, decor, presentations, testimonies, and even a give-away of Brazilian soccer jerseys.

Back in 2018, the Lord put it on my heart to help build a bridge between the Brazilian and Peruvian churches. Pastor Brian Vander Kodde, of Koinonia (Calvary Chapel) Surco, in Lima was enthusiastically in favor. We were planning on bringing a mission team of Brazilians in August of…2020, when the world shut down.

This trip – with a completely different crew than the one planned back in 2020 – is our response to Satan’s shutting down the first one. Through a series of Godcidences, too many to relate here, we were able to bring a small team of, mostly, more mature Christians on their first mission trip outside of their home country.

The bridge was built and the trip successful beyond all expectations, with mission teams crossing the bridge from both directions now in early planning for this time in 2025.

Here is a short album which focuses on the first part of our mission journey, in Ica, a five hour bus ride south of Lima along the Pacific coast. The city of nearly a million souls is known as the center of witchcraft in Peru and has the reputation, being heavily traditional and pagan, as the Cemetery of Pastors.

I visited Pastor Jimmy Palomino and his small flock in 2019 and was delighted to be able to return now to once again support their truly dedicated work in the fields of the Lord.  [please hover over images for captions]