The Georges in Peru
Food for Refugees
For over a month, Peru has shut down all but essential businesses to try to contain the corona virus. If you have money saved up you can survive easily enough. You can order food delivered to your door and go to the banks and pharmacies still. But if you are a refugee from…
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Keeping our Distance
We are now day 14 of the State of Emergency. It was extended until Easter, but looking at the 'new cases in Peru' graph makes me think we won't be getting out of this that soon. We're playing lots of board games and doing telemedicine, just like my doctor colleagues in the USA.Everyone…
MoreNothing going on in Peru
People have been asking how we are doing, so I thought I better write an update. I don't have any pictures. I guess I could show streets without cars taken from our rooftop. We can't drive our SUV under threat of having my license taken away and the SUV impounded. We…
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Mia Arrived!
Saturday morning, Mia asked about coming home since her university was closed. MB and I both prayed during our devotional times and when we finished we both felt strongly that God was telling us to get her home ASAP. So after we talked to her we bought her flights for that same night. She had to…
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If we don't work, we don't eat and we die either way!
“For some of us, quitting work and quarantining ourselves for fear of Corona Virus is not an option. If we don’t work, we don’t eat and we die either way,” our taxi driver (an ex-vice president of a large beer factory in Venezuela) told us last night. We were talking about all the…
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What did we sign up for again?
For lunch today we went to Papa John's Pizza to celebrate summer camps being over for the season. The last camp, an equestrian camp, finished yesterday and we came home in the pouring rain. Thankfully, all the parents were able to pick up the kids in spite of a few roads being closed…
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20 Years in Peru!
Today marks 20 years since we arrived in Peru! This is a picture of our first place before we had any furniture. Someone loaned us a table and a high chair and for chairs we sat on our Action Packers. It looks like a pretty bleak lunch of 7-Up and ketchup. I know we had…
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Dog Days of Summer!
This is the most dogs I've ever seen sleeping in one spot during the day: 11
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It doesn't Rain in the Desert!
Monday was the first day of summer camp. Forty-three kids loaded the bus going to camp for a week of fun. The first day was completely normal, with swimming, archery, horsebackriding, Bible studies and other camp activities. SIM's camp is located in a valley in the desert…
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About Us
We are Allen and Mary Beth George from Nebraska and Manitoba respectively. Allen has been serving in Peru with SIM since 2000 when he arrived with his late wife, Amy. Mary Beth has been serving in Peru since 2005. Sarah & Zach are both in their medical residencies in Chicago (Sarah in emergency medicine and Zach in family medicine). Ben is working for Ahlstrom-Munksjö in Taylorville, Illinois. Mia is in her 2nd year studying physical therapy at Loma Linda U. in California. Paul works as a programmer at Epic in Madison, Wisconsin.
What are we doing?
The Georges are church planting in Punta de Bombón, a town about about 6000 people on the coast of Peru.
Where are we?:
Working on Church Planting with SIM in Latin America, South America, Amazonas, PeruMonthly archive
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