Purpose for the Missions School
Our heart beats for the approximate 15,000 villages and towns scattered throughout the Peruvian Amazon jungle region. We sense the Holy Spirit’s longing to reach these 2.5 million people living in small, remote pockets of population. At this point, only about 30% of them have had an effective gospel testimony introduced to them, leaving around 1.6 million isolated people far away from any church whatsoever. These villages are often so remote that one could travel for days by river through the jungle without running into any human beings at all. Though these people are often forgotten about by modern society, Jesus died for them, and we live His passion to see churches planted in their midst. The missions school is an effective way to multiply workers who will join with us in making this dream in the Lord’s heart a reality.

Goals of the Missions School
Though it would be impossible for the Arimborgo family to single-handedly reach those 10,000 plus villages that do not yet have a Christian witness, we can greatly increase the effectiveness of our efforts by bringing in young Christians from areas all over the jungle and training them to advance the Kingdom in the places from which they come. As the Holy Spirit empowers us, we seek to teach these future pastors and leaders church leadership skills, Biblical knowledge, and most of all, how to draw deeply on His strength by keeping Him as first love in the midst of ministry busyness. We also offer classes on subjects such as sewing and breadmaking, as many of them will need to have a practical skill with which to make a living, as they labor for the Lord in regions where resources are scarce. Once a student has had three years of training, he or she will return to his or her native area of the jungle and bring the gospel to desperately hungry hearts waiting there!

Accomplishments to Date
This last year, we had our biggest freshman class yet, with a total of sixteen finishing out the school year. Eight of them were indigenous Peruvians, mostly of the Quechuan ethnicity. Our missions school students have born much fruit during their practicums: to date, seven larger churches have been planted, two church buildings erected, and eight new house churches started! We graduated our second class from the missions school in 2005, with four new young leaders equipped to go into the jungle strengthening existing churches and planting new ones. Three budding pastors graduated the year before in our first-ever graduating class. We are filled with anticipation as we look forward to another successful semester in 2006 and even more churches planted during the practicum following!