"A man is who he is plus the books he reads."

July 19th, 2009 The average Peruvian reads 0.4 books per year. Many in the mountains and towns outside of Peru's capital can't afford the latest books being pushed on Christian TV and radio that many of us can easily go grab and add to our collections never to be touched again once we've finished with them. At a recent trip Fire Peru paid to a Bible school we work in conjunction with in Huachipa, I watched pastors and leaders who graciously shook our hands and hugged us enthusiastically, while clutching and sniffing their Bible school training manuals when they received them for the 'costly' price of 10 sols (roughly $3USD) apiece. These pastors and leaders more than appreciated the investment made into their lives and ministries with this material.

We are trying to change the spiritual climate in Peru by helping the leaders in the church, and we need help providing books for pastors. Fire Peru currently works in conjunction with Derek Prince Ministries with the ability to print 7 titles of DPM's of which we're giving away upwards of 3000 copies to pastors and leaders at a "United in the Fire of God" conference here in Lima, Peru Aug 13th-15. With the permission of the author himself, we've also had "A Time For Holy Fire" by Dr. Michael L. Brown translated into Spanish, and ready to print. Because of the lack of familiarity in South America with his material, the publisher is giving us a deal and printing the books of Dr Brown's at cost. We can have 1500 copies of Holy Fire printed, and freely give them away, which is what we intend on doing if we can get the books printed in time for the conference.

The cost is $3.50/book. Most Peruvian pastors don't go out and buy the latest book recommended from the pulpit. We're asking everybody we can if they'd consider donating however little or however much they can towards this cause--giving a powerful revival themed book away to pastors and leaders in this nation, and sowing seeds of the revival we're laboring to see take place in here, and to the rest of South America.

We need the first $2000 down payment upfront by July 27th if we want to make this happen, and the rest when we obtain the books, in time for this conference during the second week of August. Can you help make that a reality for the cost of a Starbucks cup of coffee? We plan on doing this on a continual basis as the funds come in, but in order to have enough Holy Fire books printed for Aug 13th, we need to raise as much of this initial money as possible.

If you'd like to donate online, please visit https://www.fire-international.org/Donation/entry.asp Make sure to put Smith/Peru Book Project in the memo box.

Thank you so much for taking the time to make this investment into eternity.

Blessings and fire on your head

Steve Bremner, on behalf of Fire Peru