Partners
Misión Heredad de Jacob is a registered Peruvian evangelical Christian non-profit association. This Association is the main and direct partnership in Peru with the Colorado non-profit mission organization named Heritage of Jacob Peru Mission.
Misión Heredad de Jacob continues forward into the future with the proposals of edifying a local body of Christ congregation and also founding a Christian school, on their land in Sariapampa, Amarilis, Huánuco. The school hopes to start small with a kindergarten, then a grade school, and technical career training high school. All grades and levels of education will include studying the written Word of God, with times of prayer and praise songs. A higher educational technical school will offer classes of a small Biblical ministerial institute. A retreat center, under Misión Heredad de Jacob administration, surrounded by a botanical garden, has remained as a strong inspiration for many years and we expect to see it become a reality in the future.
The name of the church has been given us, “Tabernaculo de Reunion” (Exodus 33:7 Reina-Valera 1960 version). Yes, we live with the longing and hope that God will meet with us and bless us with a progressive here and now realization of the proclamation “…a loud voice from the throne, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them” (Revelation 21:3 NASB), until that day when the consummation in eternity of that proclamation is reality.
The name of the school has also been given us, “Instituto Educativo Kawaykan”. Kawaykan is a Quechua language word meaning “alive”, and “abundant life”. We live in a Quechua speaking canyon, where Spanish is the second language. We will offer Quechua language classes to help keep the heart language of the Quechua people in use over time. Those friends of ours, pastors and linguistics who are translating the Bible, will be preaching in the Quechua language from time to time, and using the Bible to teach the Quechua language to grade school and high school students who are growing up in a society that teaches only Spanish.
Misión Heredad de Jacob was blessed with the ability to purchase 45 acres of land. God has begun to send other established and independent ministries to partner with us as neighbours working together, so to speak.
Clamor En El Barrio was the first to approach us, looking for a permanent home. This ministry has helped many men recover from substance abuse. When they can build in Sariapampa they will open a separate home for women who want to change their habits, but cannot do so alone. A couple—Tito Reyes and his wife Noemi—are 24/7 live-in caregivers for those in the recovery process, keeping them immersed in prayer, Bible study, and praise and worship singing times. Tito and Noemi are a quite anointed couple, with the anointing passed down from Freddie Garcia, a recovered drug addict, who also helped many to return from the brink of the destruction of their lives in Texas and other states, through his Victory Outreach Fellowship homes. Tito and Noemi use the Bible, prayer, singing praise music, and love towards those who need help, while they develop a relationship with Jesus Christ: the key to recovery.
Then arrived a brother-in-Christ, Pablo Villogas, whose heart God burdened for pastors of all denominations who have served for many years to plant churches in the most remote rural highlands and who have no family, no financial support, no home, no one to care for them in their elderly years. One has to live in these highland areas to see how this reality works itself out, and there are many aging servants of Jesus in this condition.
Pablo has worked for years helping Wycliffe missionaries translate the Bible into this region’s Quechua language dialects. A pastor himself in the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church of Peru, Pablo approached the regional leadership with his proposal to begin a community of “retirement homes” for the pastors in need. Misión Heredad de Jacob has donated land to this project that will include over fifty homes, each home supported by one of the regional Christian and Missionary Alliance local churches. The Sariapampa “Tabernaculo de Reunion” church will not lack experienced preachers, elderly though they be. And we applaud the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church of Peru, for their effort to bridge the denominational separations, offering homes to those in need from all denominational backgrounds.
An established ministry in the outskirts of Lima, El Niño Emmanuel, will be another addition to the community neighbourhood on mission land. They do outreaches to surrounding villages, inviting children for a meal and sharing about Jesus with those that attend. They want to begin another of their annex locations within our community setting and also build some houses to host visiting missionaries and volunteers who come to help. A women’s shelter is part of their plan. We may also partner with them in the construction and administration of a recreational park/botanical garden/retreat center.
Another partnership is recently emerging and appears to be inspired and connected by God on both ends. An anointed sister-in-Christ, Rita Bennett, founded an inner healing (or soul healing) ministry with her husband Dennis Bennett, an Episcopal priest whom God used in the greater Seattle area to open people up to what we call the filling, or baptism, of the Holy Spirit, in an ecumenical ministry. Rita’s book Emotionally Free is an amazing testimony of the ministry in which she and others were so anointed. It is well worth the reading. We invite you to read the Vision, Mission, Values page on the CRA-Restore website https://emotionallyfree.org/ — in fact, we invite you to browse the entire website. The anointing has passed from Rita to others of the next generation of prayer ministers.
For many years one of the goals and objectives of the Misión Heredad de Jacob was to find and work in an anointing that Jesus offers in Isaiah 61:1-3. This has seemed to us to be the integral, or complete, “bringing of the Good News”, and, oh, how we have wanted to help with recovery from the traumas of sexual violence, family violence, and abandonment for those who came to our children’s home. We hope to be equipped at last, and anointed by Jesus, to carry this blessing to our local area, a very hurt and lost population, who need to know Jesus, to be set “free indeed” by Him, and healed of the pain they carry about them in a vicious generational circle.