Peru Project May 2025

Overview

Between 2004 and 2006, Maranatha constructed nearly 100 church buildings in Peru to provide places of worship for the increasing number of congregations. As Seventh-day Adventist membership continued to grow in the country, Adventist Church leadership in Peru asked Maranatha to return in late 2019 to build more churches and schools. When the pandemic hit, Peru locked down for most of 2020 and 2021. In 2022, restrictions were lifted, and a few volunteer projects took place in Peru. Later, social unrest led to Maranatha suspending projects in Peru again.

Despite the challenges, over 100 structures have been built in Peru in the last five years, and Maranatha has now selected de El Puerto Church in Puno for the May 15-27, 2025 Project. Peru has a great variety of ecological systems, from the Pacific Ocean coastline to the Andes Mountains. It also has desert and jungle regions. The world’s largest river, the Amazon, starts in Peru and flows through Brazil before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean.

This upcoming project will be in the high altitudes of the Peruvian mountains, around the famous Lake Titicaca. The El Puerto congregation started as a new church plant with three families 35 years ago. For over 30 years, they rented spaces to worship every week until 2023, when they finally bought a piece of land. Maranatha has provided a metal structure and a roof, which allowed the El Puerto Church to grow its membership by about 30%. Now you can help to give them the walls for their new church.