Making an impact in Peru

Dear brothers,

Please receive our cordial greetings, we hope in the Lord that you are all in good health, both physically and spiritually, and that your respective ministries are being for the honor and glory of God.

We are happy every time we read some of the reports they share with us on extension updates. We hope that to some extent these lines instill some encouragement in your hearts.

Since my last report in November, we have concluded two courses (Leadership and Church History), two very exciting and enriching courses for our students, the courses were taught by Brother Abraham Alata and by myself (Juan Abanto). We have had 13 students between the two classes; Of course some of them are taking the classes as free students (5).

As a sequel to my leadership class, I received an invitation from the Church of Christ in America (where the in-person classes are taught) to give a leadership workshop to the members of the church, which I gladly accepted. We have had some assignments and I consider that they have been very useful for all of them, of course, the real challenge for them is in using what we have shared in their respective areas of work.

At the beginning of January we started two new courses (Wisdom Books 1 – Job with Brother Andres Nuñez) and the Life of Christ 3 with Abraham Alata. They are currently in the middle of the course, due to some activities in the congregation where we work we have had to teach night classes on some occasions to make up hours since Saturdays have been used for these local activities. The students have been and agree to these arrangements and continue with their classes.

At the end of the month we will have a new workshop at the Church of Christ in Villa Alejandro. This workshop will focus on the study, organization and presentation of sermons. The teachers of the institute have been invited to share this with the brothers there. We are also preparing for our annual intercongregational conference scheduled for March 29-30. The conferences will be presented by the institute's professors and one of our graduated preachers (Alejandro Berrío).

A fraternal hug to all, thank you for the time you take to read these notes and for all the spiritual and physical support you send us.

Juan Abanto
Co-director of extension in Peru

More courses taught in Peru

A cordial greeting dear brothers,

With great joy we write these lines to you, hoping that everything is going very well in your respective homes as well as in your ministries, peace and the love of God be with each of you.
We have completed two more courses of our study plan, I am referring to Marriage and Family and I of Corinthians, the first course taught by Brother Andres Nuñez and the second by Brother Luis Camacho. Both have done an excellent job and I will share their respective appreciations with you shortly.

I especially want to highlight and thank the support of Brother Luis Camacho for supporting us with the instruction of I Corinthians and for that availability to help that stands out. Thank God for his intervention, I am sure it has resulted in a great blessing for the students.
Here I briefly share the words of each of the instructors:

Luis Camacho on I Corinthians:
“Thank you for the opportunity to teach the I Corinthians course. I know that we had excellent participation during the course with the majority of the students…”.
The following have participated in his class: José Chiuyare, Ethel lapa, Sandra Chalco, Martha Nolasco, Maryuri Alarcon, Jhonely. Six people have benefited from the classes taught.

Andrés Nuñez about the Marriage and Family course:
“It has been very special to make known what the Church believes regarding Marriage, since it is a very important doctrine for the students to know and learn. They assimilated, they learned what the Bible teaches, from Genesis, which is the beginning where every preacher and teacher must go, since our Lord answered the different questions regarding marriage and remarriage. The students asked many questions, which were each answered with the word of God, we saw many biblical examples about marriage, pacts, divorces, failed commitments, disobedience and as such the true marriage that the church teaches as part of a doctrine, that we must be very zealous and not allow false teachings to stain the sacred marriage established by God.”

The following have participated in his class: Alejandro Manrique, José Chiuyare, Betty Melo, Elias Jorge, Frank Flores, Carolyn Chavez, Víctor Quijandria, Jhonely. Eight people have benefited from this course and the classes taught.

We are about to share two new courses, I am referring to Church History and Leadership. The teachers assigned for these courses are Abraham Alata and myself (Juan Abanto). We are making every preparation to make these next two months as productive and beneficial for students and teachers as the previous months have been.

With these two new courses we are starting a new semester, six months closer to the end of this second round of classes, in which we hope to continue counting on your prayers and support, with God's favor, trusting that He will help us to come to fruition.

May the Lord continue to bless you!!!
Juan Abanto

Reaching souls in Peru

Greetings dear brothers from Lima - Peru to all who can read this brief report. 

We have finished two more courses, I mean Prison Epistles (Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians and Philemon) and I - II of Peter, Judas. The first course has been This server (Juan Abanto) dictated and the second course was taught by Abraham Alata. 

The students who have been participating in the classes have been: Alejandro Manrique, Victor Quijandría, José Daniel, Bety Melo, Marta Nola, Mariela Ramirez, Carolin Chavez, Ethel Lapa and Jhonely. It has been once again a pleasant experience teaching this course and all the lessons related to the course through these last eight Saturdays. 

On the other hand, one of our teachers (Andrés Nuñez) is doing special work in a church in the south of Lima, every month he travels to give personalized instruction to some male members of the Church of Christ in Subtanjalla – Ica. They have certain technological limitations, so the best thing is the face-to-face class in their city, probably arrangements are made so that they can be added to the next courses virtually, but this work of Andrés is resulting in a great blessing for the brothers in said congregation.

Thanks to the invitation, we have also participated in an evangelistic campaign in the Iglesia de Cristo Los Rosales, a church north of Lima where brother Juan Nima (a brother that some of you may remember) preaches, along with brothers who came of the Church of Christ in Hyaleah – USA. The result of this campaign resulted in 12 baptisms to the glory of God.

We have also had a three-day event for preachers and leaders at the end of July, the 3 instructors from the Institute were invited to participate as speakers, taking advantage of the opportunity to communicate with other church leaders, but also to talk a little more about the benefits of the institute and to stimulate them to count on us as a resource to increase the knowledge of the brothers in their respective congregations, we hope in the Lord that this bears fruit.

We were also invited to support an evangelistic activity in the east of Lima, in the church of Christ in Santa Anita, where the brothers Moisés Quispe and Richard Gomez preach, they have gained many contacts with whom we hope the brothers are surely already working.

We are about to start the following two courses, in these two months the brothers in charge of teaching the courses will be: Marriage and Family (Andres Nuñez) and I Corinthians (Luis Camacho). The students are already waiting for this new beginning!!! 

Thank you to all the people directly or indirectly involved in keeping this project going, may the Lord continue to bless you!!!

Peru school learns more about planting churches

Greetings dear brothers and sisters.

We are halfway through the course, thank God we have Abraham Alata and Andrés Nuñes in charge of the courses this bimester (The Deity and Planting Churches). They have written a brief review on the progress of their respective course, which I will share so that you can read what they themselves have written about it:

Abraham Alata on the course "Divinity":
The course on Divinity has fallen into my responsibility, which will be taught for the space of 2 months during 8 Saturdays 4 hours every Saturday from the months of May to June. During the first month we have been talking about theology as the study of God, how can one know God, general revelation and special revelation. During the month of June the following topics will be covered: the Trinity and Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Additional reading material has been handed out. The evaluation of the students consists of quizzes every Saturday, memory verses, a final exam, participation, notebook notes, and the reading of the distributed material. There are 8 students in my course, 5 in person and 3 online. There is a student who has been coming sporadically.

Andres Nuñez on the course "Planting Churches":
Duration time: 2 months (May and June)
Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
The brothers who are participating in the course are 7 . Since May 2023, I have the pleasant opportunity to continue teaching my classes as a teacher at the Bear Valley Bible Institute Peru School. On this occasion with the course "Planting Churches" motivating students with great enthusiasm, to know, learn, and know how to Plant a new Church. At first, during its development, they were very struck by the fact that evangelism is the main base, then discipleship, and in the end the church is fully established in the chosen place, but with a missionary vision.
The course consists of three main points that are:
I. EVANGELIZE (With strategies that work) TO EVERYONE (John 3:1:21; Luke 5:1-11). How to evangelize?
II. DISCIPLE (Up to the highest level, Life Transformation) (2 Timothy 2:2). How far to teach.
III. PLANTING CHURCHES (With a global missionary vision) Reproduction of churches (Acts 9:31). What kind of churches? With World Missionary Vision.
Up to this moment the brothers are understanding that lately and until now many mistakes are being made in establishing new churches in another place, since campaigns are carried out for several days, souls are won, then they are abandoned to their fate, because nobody is left to teach them and if someone is alone it is for a few days, then they are still alone.

In the end the work always remains unfinished and the work was in vain. So the students are seeing and learning what is most important for the new church established in any part of the country to be more solid, strong and committed to the Lord. The students are very eager to participate in the evangelism, campaigns, in any activity carried out by other churches, they feel that desire to attend and support the work of the Lord.

Thank you for taking a little time to read about the progress of classes at BVBI-PERU.

Your server Juan Abanto.

Lectureship in Peru

Our cordial greetings,

It is a pleasure to write these lines to update interested brothers regarding the progress of BVBI-Peru. The two courses that have been taught in this bimester have been "Historical Books of the AT." and "The life of Jesus II" we are one class away from finishing both courses, the first course has been in charge of this server (Juan Abanto) and the second in charge of Abraham Alata, attendance at both courses has improved and we hope in The Lord keep doing it. In both courses we have had 9 students.

In addition to the classes taught at the institute, we had our V Annual Bible Conference on April 8 in the city of Ica, the two congregations in that city participated in the event, including a group of brothers from Lima, it was a beautiful experience for us. as instructors, to share these teachings regarding "A church that perseveres: Contrast between the challenges of the church of the I Century and that of the XXI century". The instructors for this conference were the brothers Abraham Alata, Andres Nunes, Alejandro Berrío (graduate student) and Juan Abanto. We had an attendance of about 60 people.

We were blessed to participate in the evangelistic activity of the church where the conference was held and for the glory of God two souls were added to the kingdom of Christ. It really was 3 days of a lot of activity, fellowship, instruction and work. We hope in the Lord to be promoters of many more similar events in the future in many other congregations, both in the capital and in the provinces of our country.

I share some photos that somehow tell you this story visually.

May the Lord continue to bless your respective ministries.

Juan Abanto

Lima, Peru school receives a visit

Dear brothers,
Once again I have the pleasure of writing a few lines with the intention of updating you regarding the work at BVBI-PERU, wishing that each of your ministries be greatly blessed for the glory of our God.

After our last report, I want to tell you that we were blessed with the presence of the Director of International Studies, our brother Keith Kasarjian, on January 21-22. His visit has really been very productive. On Saturday the 21st we had the I Biblical Seminar. On this occasion who was in charge of the presentations was Keith with the theme of "The administration of finances", there were 4 very instructive presentations and they were very well received by the members of the different invited churches. This is setting a precedent for what will be our future annual seminars either with foreign or local speakers.

On Sunday the 22nd we visited four of our sister congregations in different parts of Lima (IDC Los Angeles (south), IDC America (south), IDC Santa Anita (center) and IDC Los Rosales (north). The intention has been both the communion and the publicity of BVBI-PERU among the members of these congregations. Many of the brothers had already had the opportunity to hear Keith preach and it was nice for them to see him again. Keith's presence has certainly given him an added impetus to the institute here in the country. As a result of Keith's presence we had around 80 people at the conference, 4 congregations visited and an increase in students in our last course.

In the month of January the course of "Acts of the Apostles" has been taught, the person in charge of this class has been brother Andrés Nuñez and we are currently about to conclude the course "A.T. 1- The Pentateuch” Juan Abanto. We currently have 9 students (4 of them are formal students and the others are taking the course freely; several brothers have expressed their interest in taking the classes freely due to the difficulty they have with their schedules, but expressing their sincere desire to keep learning.

As of March 11, the institute will be teaching two courses every Saturday for a period of two months, following the suggestions of our director, with the intention of continuing to make it easier for the brotherhood to take the courses according to their availability. The courses will be "A.T2- Historical Books" Juan Abanto and "The Life of Christ 2" Abraham Alata.

On the other hand, we are making preparations for the V Bible Conference scheduled for April 8 in the city of Ica. On this occasion, in response to the request of the brothers in this city, we have decided to decentralize a bit and present the conference from another country point. We hope this decision will be fruitful with a view to promoting the institute more and more. The exhibitors will be the active teachers and one of our graduate students. We hope that all efforts involved are only for the glory of God.

We will continue working both in instruction and in the search for more students to make the work of the Institute more effective and efficient. We ask for your prayers for everything we have been doing and what we want to achieve for the Lord. God bless you!

Training preachers in Peru

Greetings dear friends,

Grateful for God's care, love and mercy, we close the year 2022 with great expectations for this year, in which we hope to do things much better than last year.

Since our last report we have taught 2 additional courses: Hermeneutics and A.T.1. and we are about to start the course of Acts. Our students continue their commitment to instruction and performing to the best of their ability in their respective congregations. Two of our students have had complications with their health (Victor Quijandría and Mariela Ramirez), in the case of Mariela she underwent surgery in mid-December, after an arduous fight against cancer, she has finally undergone surgery and is now in recovery process, with great expectation to continue with his instruction.

Share a brief review from one of our students about the Hermeneutics course: "My experience in the course was very interesting, I saw the importance of studying hermeneutics in order to stay and help to stay in the truth of the gospel of Christ, the very teacher well and with a lot of patience we look like kindergarten children, but the teacher Juan Abanto was very patient and I saw his care in teaching, thank you brother Juan Abanto, God bless you” (Ethel Lapa).

Here, I share some notes regarding the course given in December by brother Abraham Alata: “Teaching the life of Christ part I was an exciting experience. We cover the intertestamental period and a brief introduction to each of the fourth gospels. The students were fascinated to discover that much of the information we read in the gospels comes from the intertestamental period and I believe that this course helps them to consider other aspects such as the cultural, economic, political and social background. It was also a blessing for me” (Abraham Alata).

The next course (the book of Acts) will be taught by brother Andrés Nuñez, we are already making all the preparations to start this coming January 7th. On the other hand, we are also with great expectation for the visit of the director of the international extensions, our brother Keith Kasarjian, with whom we will have, God willing, a very active weekend, on the one hand our I Biblical Seminar on Saturday January 21 on the Biblical Administration of Finances and a tour of some of the local congregations on Sunday the 22nd to encourage the brotherhood and inform about the benefits of participating in the Bible Institute.
It has been a pleasure to share some things related to the institute here in Lima – Peru, a hug from afar and our best wishes in your respective ministries.
In Christ, Juan Abanto

Peru school takes a class on communication skills

We have satisfactorily concluded one more course of our program. I am referring to the oratory course, which was presented by Brother Andrés Nuñez. Both the instructor and the students had a good time training and coaching. I will now share some notes from both the teacher and the students, I think it is a good way to know the experiences of some of them during the course. I hope this is encouraging to all who may read this short report.

Andres Nuñez's report:
In the month of October 2022 I had the privilege of being able to teach this Oratory course, very essential for every Christian, especially for our student brothers who are preparing to teach, preach and evangelize using the word of God throughout their lives. It is better that our future servants of God prepare themselves in Oratory, which is the art of speaking eloquently, of delighting, persuading and moving through the word of God. Well, the persevering practice of speaking to convince, together with the knowledge and good use of oratory techniques, makes the speaker. The BVBI-PERU Bible Institute has this purpose for its students.

Our student brothers participated in this course:
1. Mariela Ramirez Salazar
2. Ethel Lapa
3. Alejandro Manrique Matos
4. Jose Medina Atoche.
5. Victor Quijandria.
6. Jose Daniel Chiuyare.

It was a special experience because I used a new study material focused first on “The main techniques of public speaking”. (1) Its importance, concepts, conditions, qualities, speech, preparation, pronunciation, reading, diction, tone and voice, presentation, theme. (2) How to use your body and hands when speaking in public, stage fright, fillers, the image of the speaker, time, support materials.

We gave each student the Study Material. "Oratory the art of speaking" and "The course of biblical oratory.” The classes were virtual and face-to-face, and the truth is that the brothers were very enthusiastic about knowing and learning more about the art of speaking in public, together with the different techniques of Oratory.

Personally, I really enjoyed teaching our brothers. They showed great interest, a desire to know and learn more about the course. It was a good, positive experience and I know that the brothers feel more motivated, with great expectations of the next course next month "Hermeneutics" that will be taught by our brother Juan Abanto. I thank God for giving me this opportunity to teach our brothers the word of God.

Now we will share the thoughts of some of the students:

“I learned to communicate the word of God in a better way, both in posture and in putting a better intonation of voice, so that I can come forward to serve God, and the listeners can understand better (José Daniel Chuyare)

“About the Oratory course: What I think and say is very interesting, since one learns ways of speaking, how to speak eloquently, knowing how to reach the hearts of the listeners, public or auditorium, it is very good and recommended for the Christian and to do a good job in the work of the Lord” (Ethel Lapa)

“Thank God for giving me the opportunity to study this oratory course and to you as teachers, my personal appreciation goes out to you. The public speaking course has allowed me to realize many errors that I have been practicing without realizing it, such as fillers, also knowing that our body also speaks, the diction of my words, loud and clear vocalization. Only practice and perseverance will help me to polish all my mistakes regarding the exposition of a message of God's writing or a study" (Alejandro Manrique M.).

“Many thanks to brother Andrés, for the oratory course. I learned a lot. I did not know that we use oratory for everything. I learned new teachings in oratory. Diction, which is very important, and realizing my filler words, and I also have to practice a lot so that I can be heard loud and clear when I speak, and it does not mean that I have to shout, thank you very much again” (Mariela Ramirez)

With the favor of God, this Saturday, November 5, we will be starting the Hermeneutics course. We ask for your prayers to continue with our program of biblical instruction and for new students to continue to be added.
Thank you for the time you have taken to read these lines, God continue to bless you!!

Lima school finishes course on apologetics

Peace and love of God be with you all,

It is a pleasure to share with you some notes to keep you updated on the progress of the institute here in Peru.

After some consideration we made the decision to return to our old location, I mean the meeting place of the Church of Christ in America. Now that things are returning to normal after the pandemic, we believe that returning to this location will influence the increase in students in the face-to-face mode. We will continue to present the courses in the virtual modality for students who are outside of Lima, but the priority will always be the face-to-face modality.

We have concluded the “Apology” course with Abraham Alata in the month of September, I want to share some thoughts about the course from two students.

“About the Apologetics course, it was good to take it, I have learned a lot because we learned how to approach a person who does not even believe in God, and those who know about God but who are going in the wrong direction and present a good defense using the word of God and understanding the history about the concepts of faith and reason was very interesting to see that perspective of the events that some philosophers presented their declarations and caused conflicts in society in ancient times, thank you very much, brother Juan, God bless you” (Mariela Ramirez ).

“The apology course, personally super interesting, I have learned a lot about apologetics, I know that this will help me a lot to develop better as a Christian and I hope to be of help where I congregate. For me it was something that I did not know. We also had a good teacher like Abraham , who had a lot of patience. I say it for myself, thank you brother for presenting these much-needed lessons for every Christian” (Ethel Lapa).

On Saturday, October 8, we began the "Oratory" course with Andrés Núñez. For this course we have 7 students enrolled. In addition, we delivered two certificates of participation to two of our students who have completed their training program. José Medina is a member of the Church of Christ in Comas (north of Lima) and Alejandro Berrío is a member of the Church of Christ in Villa Alejandro (in the south of Lima). Each certificate was delivered in the congregation of which they are members.

We appreciate all the efforts that are made so that the extensions continue to give instruction to their respective students, including us here in Peru.

Peru school completes course on God's Plan of Salvation

Thank God the month of August has been a month of very uplifting and fruitful classes on "The Plan of Redemption". We had the participation of 5 students: 4 formal students and 1 guest student.

As scheduled we covered the material that we had scheduled to cover. We also had a group research and presentation project on "Spiritual Blessings in Christ" as part of the course requirements. They all did a good job.

We started the course "Christian Evidences", which is being presented by brother Abraham Alata.

I would like to share some thoughts from Institute students about the previous course.

“I am putting together a summary of God's entire plan of redemption. I was reflecting on my experience as a child of God and the grace received from our Lord Jesus Christ and I thought about how God the Father had me in his mind before the foundation of the world, I feel very grateful within my heart I will never be able to repay so much blessing from God will only be able to follow his commandments and above all Matthew 28:18-20 to share his holy gospel” (Alejandro Manrique M.)

“There is nothing more rewarding than studying the Bible. Personally, I feel very happy for the opportunity to have received the course "Plan of Redemption" the one that was in the mind of God before the foundation of the world for humanity, spoken by the holy prophets, fulfilled in Christ and revealed through the holy apostles and today teaching through his servants what our brother Juan Abanto is like. I am very grateful for this work that is done and those who contribute to the irrigation of the doctrine of our Lord " (Humberto Gonzales)

It has been a pleasure to share this course with the brothers of the institute, we hope with the favor of God, to continue with this academic project. Thank you for the efforts made to find resources and for the spiritual support of all involved.

Doing good in Peru

Greetings dear brothers:
The institute continues with its class program, in the month of June brother Andrés Núñez was in charge of the course "Personal Evangelism 1" here I share with you the words of Andrés' own experience when teaching the course:

“In the month of July 2022 I had the privilege again of being able to be part of the professors to teach this Personal Evangelism course, very essential for every Christian, especially for our student brothers who are preparing to work in the vineyard of the Lord. and that it is better that our future servants of God prepare themselves in the institute. It was a special experience because I used new study material focused first on the first century church as an example of Personal Evangelism, then the numerical growth of the church, the example of our Lord, the apostles, Paul, Peter, Andrew, Philip etc. Give each student the Study Material. The classes were virtual and face-to-face, and the truth is that the brothers had great enthusiasm to know, learn and learn more about how to evangelize, the different Methods of Evangelism, they taught about some denominations such as the Catholic, Evangelical, and Adventist Church. They learned about his teachings and how to biblically refute each of his arguments, with a biblical basis. Personally, I really enjoyed teaching our brothers, they also showed great interest, a desire to know and learn more about the course. It was a good, positive experience and I know that the brothers feel more motivated, with great expectations, of the courses that they have each month. I thank God for giving me this opportunity to teach our brothers the word of God, and to Juan Abanto for giving me the confidence to continue in this ministry that the Lord has entrusted to us” (Andrés Núñez).

In the current month of August, I (Juan Abanto) am in charge of the course "The Plan of Redemption" we are halfway through the course and the experience with the new students is being very edifying, they have been assigned the preparation of an evangelistic sermon and a group research paper on which they are working, which will be presented before the end of the course. It is a new group of students and I am hoping that, through this experience, they will come to recognize the importance of teamwork, after all, it is what is needed in ministry. If we're going to search for the lost, then we're going to do it together.

At the moment in this new journey we have four students (Humberto Gonzales, Mariela Ramírez, Alejandro Manrique and Daniel Chiuyare). It is important that you know that from our previous group we have two students who are close to completing their instruction program, they have a couple of pending courses, but they will have to wait until these are delivered according to their schedule. This is because they started the first round somewhat late.

As part of our work plan, at the beginning of June we started a visitation program to different churches in Lima with the intention of awakening the spirit of the brotherhood in person to enroll in the institute, we hope that this can bear some fruit within little and we can count on a greater number of students. Abraham has been visiting the churches of San Martin, América and Las Flores for the time being.

We have also updated our website and we are including more study materials in our digital library in Spanish, it is clear that it is much more efficient to have printed material but our resources are limited and we trust that this can be of use to our brothers.

Thank you for taking the time to read this report. The Lord bless you.

Classes resume in Peru

Our cordial greetings, dear colleagues, friends and brothers. The BVBI - Peru has restarted its instruction program! The courses on Homiletics (May by Juan Abanto) and The Origin of the Bible (this month of June) have been taught. We have 4 students and with the possibility of adding two more for next Saturday, the flexibility of our program is allowing new students to be added and we are confident that more and more students will continue to be added.

In a special way we would like to share the last 5 baptisms that have taken place in the Church of Christ in Villa Alejandro (a congregation where three of our instructors, including myself, and one of our students are actively participating in evangelistic work).

The presence of the Institute in the Villa Alejandro congregation is proving to be a great blessing.

May our merciful God continue to bless your respective ministries, we beg your prayers for us.

Juan Abanto

Making progress in Lima

Greetings to all of you who dedicate your time to serve the Lord spreading the good news.

The School in Lima Peru continues with its program of study and during May and June, we have had two webinars announcing our courses on Johannine epistles and Mayor Prophets.

Some of our students are struggling with internet connection so to attend the classes the instructors make phone calls so that they can listen to the class. This pandemic hit badly our country and the churches and we are aware that the whole world has been affected in different ways.

Thank God, many people are being vaccinated against covid, and in some way, this produces confidence in being involved in different activities. We hope, by end of the next year, the whole country be vaccinated so we can return to our face-to-face classes.

We pray for you all please keeps your prayers for the School here, the churches, and our country.

God keeps you well,

Abraham Alata

Serving in difficult times in Lima

Greetings from Lima, Peru

We want to inform you that continue with the activities of the school, for the glory of our Lord and the benefit of our brethren, we had a 2 days conference "Women of Impact" on which we were sharing material in pdf format and as well of announcing our next course the gospel of John and 1, 2, 3 John trying to encourage those who are not yet part of the school to take the courses our institute offers.

We are facing difficult times due to this pandemic on which our full-time students and instructors have been affected as you know. In April, another of our instructors got covid and he is still not fully recovered and also the families of some of our students have been affected by covid cause them not to continue with the course last month for taking care of their loved ones the rest of the students are doing good so far. We ask your prayers for Alejandro (Instructor), Margot's family (student), Alejandro's M. family (student) and Alejandro B. (student) as well as for the instructors and students that are still well.

This pandemic is affecting the school and the churches and the whole country in many different ways as we could mention a couple of economic and health issues and people are taking difficult decisions in their lives trying to survive.

We would like to have a face-to-face course but it is still illegal to gather together so we continuing with our online courses. As with any method, we found some cons; for example, you must have internet access and prevent new prospects from getting into the program. Although we are encouraging as many as we can to join the school.

Please, pray for the school here. We know that in difficult times the message of our Lord is needed to be spread out and that is what we are trying to do.

God keep blessing your ministries and all the work you do for our Lord.

Abraham Alata

Co-director and instructor

Death strikes the school in Peru

Greetings from the School in Lima, Peru,

We hope that this message find you well in companion with your family. We pray for the ministry you all are doing.

We want to inform that thanks God brother Andres is fully recovered from Covid19 but as we have a happy news we have a sad news also one of our students brother Pluvio passed away from Covid he was not able to defeat the virus but for us we trust that he is in a better place waiting for us.

This month the books of 1 & 2 Thessalonians were concluded and we also had a webinar announcing our next course OT3 with brother Juan Abanto. Our instructors are taking Master classes increasing in that way their knowledge, we ask you for your prayers for the students and instructors.

In him,

Abraham Alata

Dealing with Covid in Peru

I want to communicate that Andres Nuñez one of our instructors diagnosed covid is feeling better now, thanks God. We are continuing our activities by holding online classes and it seems that it will be like that the whole year and maybe part of 2022 because many more covid cases are broken out.

Words of Juan after teaching II Corinthians:

The II Corinthians class has been another great opportunity to share and go deep in the word of God with our students, there were 5 students during this class that have satisfactorily completed the course. One of our students had health problems related to the lungs and for that reason she was not able to have the course, I am speaking of Margot Rodriguez, one of our best students, we trust God her health improve for our next course.

The class has been developed in a homiletic and expository way, intended for our students to assimilate in the best way possible the study material. One quiz every week and a series of expositions related to their investigation themes at the end of the course.

We thank your prayers and your continuous support to the ministry and the institute here in our country

Juan Abanto

Codirector - Maestro

We are praying for the work you are doing and the work all the instructors around the globe during this difficult scene.

Prayers for Peru

Greetings in Christ our Lord to you my dear brothers from your fellow brothers from Lima, Perú.  

The situation in Lima is difficult due to the virus, many brothers and sisters in Christ have passed away, some others got the virus but they recovered as it is the case with one of our students and some others got the virus recently as it is the case of one of our instructors. On December 2020, churches were allowed gather together but this last week our president announced another quarantine due to the increase in coronavirus cases. Quarantine started on January 31 till February 14 but we still have a state of emergency the whole month of February.  

Although this situation has restricted many activities we are continuing with our virtual mode of instruction. We are having webinars every month in order to get the interest of possible prospects to study at the school.  

We ask your prayers for our students and instructors for the brothers and sisters in Peru now that we are facing another quarantine. We are praying for you all as well.  

I adjust a picture of me teaching “Life of Christ III” and I can say that one of the good things about teaching is receiving words of gratitude from the students for sharing these classes.  

Utilizing technology in Peru

Our warmest regards,

As the singer Juan Manuel Moretti says "Things are running their course" dear brothers, things have gotten very difficult in recent months, but we keep moving forward, and that is the path that the Lord Jesus has put us ahead to walk. , and the best of all is that in the middle of whatever comes our way, there he is with us, by our side, encouraging us, strengthening us, extending his hands to hold us when we feel faint and that we can no longer advance more. The lord is good!

One more month has gone, approaching the end of this year 2020, leaving us many troubles, and disappointments, but also many gratifying moments, which continue to encourage us and give us reasons to continue.

As planned, BVBI PERU continues with its activities and events, we have successfully concluded the Church History course, which has been presented by Abraham Alata, our co-director and teacher. Here are a few words from Abraham Alata regarding his Church History class:

"In the course I could see the interest and also the amazement of many to understand what the church was like in its early years and how the changes arose as time passed that contributed to the formation of many doctrines that we contemplate in churches today and how the effort was made to go back to the origins. It was a great experience to be able to share knowledge with the students about the course of Church History".

We have had 3 new students in the course and although their interest has only been for this course, as free students, we are convinced that there are many possibilities that they will decide to enroll in our curricular program. If not, we believe that the experience you have had in this course will result in very good recommendations on your part, to other brothers who are looking for a biblical training center.

We started our webinars through which we try to awaken the interest of people in the classes and the program that the institute offers, as a result of our first webinar we have new students registered in our program, I mean Israel Avendaño, Jerson Chura , Humberto Gonzales, Bartolomé Trujillo, Gerardo Muñoz.

We are ready to start a new course, the speaker this November will be Yens Nima, we will present the course "Paul's letter to the Galatians."

Thank you for taking the time to read these notes on things here at BVBI PERU and stay safe and secure.

Juan Abanto

Maximizing the use of technology in Peru

Greetings dear brothers,
A fraternal greeting to you from Lima - Peru,
This has been a very busy month despite the fact that we have many limitations to do what we are passionate about, yet the ministry continues as well as the programs related to the institute.

We are transmitting our programs 8 times a week in a virtual way (I mean virtual studies or sermons as part of our congregational work, in which we have one of our students involved with a lot of commitment, I mean Alejandro Berrio). We have done some benevolence activities as well, thanks to the help of generous brothers who are kind enough to share their material blessings with us.

The institute continues to offer its classes virtually and the last course has been Marriage and Family. Brother Yens Nima was the instructor for this course. For his report, our students have passed the course with satisfactory grades.

Thinking about implementing new things taking advantage of the circumstances and opportunities, we have considered it a good idea to implement a webinar prior to each course to continue awakening interest in the courses and the institute's class program among our brothers. Our first webinar is scheduled for October 24 prior to the Galatians course in November, which will be taught again by Brother Yens Nima. 

I share a few brief thoughts from Yens and the course he has taught:

"First of all, I thank God and at the same time the brothers who gave me the opportunity to teach this subject to the students of the Bear Valley Bible Institute, our Brother Juan Abanto and Abraham Alata. It is an honor to serve the cause of God through this course that we have been teaching Marriage and Family. Well, the study included the biblical and theological bases of the family but with special emphasis on the treatment of the ministerial family.... This course provided, from the biblical and theological bases, some valuable tools for the strengthening of our marital and family relationship as ministers. This will enable us to be equipped and sensitized to help other families who will seek our advice and guidance in times of pain and difficulty. In addition, we will have a good foundation to train those who are not yet married, to prevent some of the unfortunate situations that we have had to face due to our lack of knowledge and experience" Yens Nima.

The course scheduled for this month of October is Church History and will be presented by Abraham Alata, classes begin on October 5.

Online classes continue in Lima, Peru

It is a pleasure for us to greet you dear brothers,

Things continue to get more difficult in our country in relation to the pandemic, while in other countries things are somehow being brought under control, in our country things are getting worse, the latest international report has put our country in the first place in the world with the highest mortality rate with 28,124 victims, while another 10,000 are being investigated.

The scenario we are in is unfortunate, however, we remain confident in the Lord and in the power of his strength and that everything will improve. Almost a month ago one of our students suffered the death of his mother due to COVID, I mean Moisés Guevara, it was a hard time for him, for the family and for the church, God have her in his glory.

Since our last report we have continued with our study program, although due to circumstances we continue to do so virtually. Our last two courses have been Leadership and Job (the latter is still being taught). Leadership was presented by me (Juan Abanto), the course on the Book of Job (A.T. IIIA) is being taught by brother Andrés Núñez. It is still a great challenge for us to present these courses in the midst of all these difficulties and limitations that we have, but both teachers and students are always trying to do our best to continue our program.

On the other hand, we started a virtual program focused on youth, in this program we are involving different young ministers to expose the word of God. In recent months, both I and Abraham Alata have been involved in many opportunities to share the word of God, it is not a program exclusively sponsored by the Institute, but thank God we had the vision to implement it with the help of many other ministers and it is working be a great help to the youth of the church of Christ in the country. One of the objectives is to take advantage of the program to awaken interest among the young people in the institute and in the training program that we offer, we hope in God many awaken their interest in the institute through this.

Thank you for always being aware of the extension here in our country and for the support that is constantly provided to continue with the program. Please keep us in your prayers!