The Georges in Peru
College Campus Tours
Thursday, Ben went on his first college campus tour. While in Peru he used the internet search engines to look for good engineering schools, and Colorado popped up repeatedly. Since it is kind of on the way to Amy's parents' home, we went to Boulder and stayed with our friends the…
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Okay, I guess it should be 'Joggers Find Body', but I'm getting ahead of myself. Today's run was supposed to be Paul's 15K run in preparation for his first half marathon in 3 weeks. My friend, Dr. Wayne Centrone joined us. We were letting Paul set the pace and were just along for…
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The Inka Trail
Over the last couple of weeks a few people have emailed me, “This will be a hard Christmas.” Risking sounding cold, we decided to prove them wrong and have a great Christmas! Amy would want that. Sure, we’ve missed having Amy here, but Mia recently came home from Germany, Sarah…
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Congratulations on your Graduation, Ben!
Today was high school graduation at our kids' school. Ben's class is divided in 4 sections and he won first place for the highest grades for his section, so I am very proud of him!
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Hair/Water Cut
Sarah arrived in Peru Saturday. Unfortunately, her luggage still hasn't gotten here yet, but we were told it was sent on a flight this afternoon and hope to see it either tonight or in the morning. We are so glad to have her back home with us! Since a haircut in Peru only costs $2…
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Chutes and Ladders
Our church is building rooms for Sunday School classes and the first of the truckloads of building material arrived yesterday. Our church property is below street level, so we had to move the rocks from the street where they were dumped into the church. We built a chute to roll the…
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Paul's Baptism!
Today Paul was baptized in the same natural spring that Ben and Mia were baptized in a couple of years ago. The whole church and several missionary colleagues came out to celebrate with us for Paul's big day. I had the privilege of preaching before the baptism and to be at Paul's side…
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Let's have an Evangelistic Cock Fight!
Our church is located near the city square of Tiabaya, a semirural community. On some Sunday nights we have to compete with the noise of election campaigns or fiestas put on by the municipality. Last night there was a party in the lot next to the church with lots of bright lights and…
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Three Boys, Unsupervised
This afternoon we said 'good bye' to Mia and she boarded a plane with classmates and a teacher for Lima. As I write this, her jet should be escaping the surly grasp of the earth and hurtling towards Amsterdam on her way to begin her 3-month student exchange program in Germany through her…
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Hike to the Volcano
This morning, Mia, Paul and I went to Yura, a village about 30 km from our house to "Trek to the Volcano", an event sponsored by the village. We met the rest of the hikers at 8:30 and got on the stock truck to head out to the trailhead. Someone with a farm background and really good…
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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.