brannan

Jim and Sue Brannan

jimsueperu@hotmail.com
Puerto Maldonado, Peru, South America
Missionary Ventures, International

Supported by Westside for 6 years

Last Update:

October 2007

The Ministry

Serving God in Southeastern Peru by helping indigenous pastors minister to their own people. We host short-term mission teams with construction projects, Christian Living conferences, Pastor/Leadership conferences, medical/dental clinics, also in evangelization, prayer and witnessing.

Accomplishments this year

• Moved from southwestern desert region in Peru to southeastern jungle region in Peru.
  
• Attended and spoke at January 2006 Orlando, Florida Missions Conference.
  
• Oversaw the Grandma’s House (built last year)—Christian refuge for pregnant minors in Puerto Maldonado; targeting brothel workers. Jim is VP on the board of directors for this project; we upgraded their well this year and added a surrounding wall and a second floor to their building.
  
• Started construction on the first Christian school in Pto. Maldonado, with plans to open March 2007; Jim is VP on the board of directors for this project, its construction funding is totally provided by us.
  
• Assisted in upriver ministries to tribes with very little contact in prohibited areas.
  
• Helped in starting a church in Boca Manu, just outside of the prohibited areas upriver.
  
• Hosted 7 short-term mission teams sent to us by MVI, plus 2 missionary scouting teams and a planning conference for our area.
  
• Funded 2 feeding centers in Arequipa.
  
• Project Christian movies several nights a month for various churches and youth groups.
  
• Still actively oversee, fund and advise in running of the orphanage we built in Arequipa, Jim was president on the board of directors from 2002 until January 2006.
  
• Assist in local VBS.
  
• Started and active in 2 different Purpose-Driven Life book studies, at the jail and at the Grandma’s House.
  
• Maintained support for seminary student in Arequipa, in a single parent family.
  
• Supported a local circuit pastor in the Colca Canyon, who makes rounds to remote areas.
  
• Assisted the Christian Motorcycle Association in distributing one motorcycle this year to local pastor.

Goals for next year

• Next holiday season we hope to come visit home and share firsthand—it will be our first regularly scheduled furlough (we will have been 7 years in the mission field by then)
  
• A long-term English teacher for the Christian School opening in March, plus curriculum (March--Dec.)
  
• More DVDs and book studies on Christian living, in Spanish
  
• Construction on the school’s second floor
  
• Construction on more rooms at the Grandma’s House
  
• Come join us

We are needing short-term mission teams willing to:

• Prayer walk this area
  
• Train Sunday School teachers, bringing teaching materials (in Spanish) and Bibles
  
• Complete construction on the school/ Grandma’s House
  
• Drill wells on upriver trips
  
• Conduct Christian family-living conferences
  
• Conduct pastor/leadership conferences
  
• Bring creationism seminars/materials to the schools here, which are still teaching evolution