David Satterwhite, far right, poses with his Peruvian guitar students.A team from South Carolina, including five members of Roebuck Baptist Church, recently returned from a mission trip to the jungle of Peru, where they taught guitar, carpentry and discipling skills at a conference for the Ashaninka people.
It was the third trip to Peru for David Satterwhite, minister of music at Roebuck Church. His church is in the third year of a four-year commitment through the International Mission Board’s REAP North Peru vision. The church makes three trips to the Peruvian jungle each year.
More than 80 people from 19 different villages came to the conference on the eastern slopes of the South American Andes near the Rio Tambo (Tambo River, part of the headwaters of the Amazon). Satterwhite taught guitar and discipleship to about 35 church leaders. The other 45 villagers were part of a carpentry workshop put on by the men of Roebuck Church and IMB missionaries.
The team was able to leave behind three guitars, which were provided by the South Carolina Baptist Singing Churchmen, a men’s choir made up of music and worship leaders.
Roebuck Church will send another team in June to conduct a soccer tournament, and the church will return in the fall with a medical missions team.
“It’s been very rewarding personally, and great for our church,” said Satterwhite. “We’ve been teaching the Ashaninkan Christians how to teach discipleship to others, and they seem to be getting it.”