Isai's Testimony
I accepted Christ at eight years old during a Vacation Bible School at our church in Arequipa. I recognized that I was a sinner and needed a Savior and simply asked Christ to save me. My father Henry Vasquez was a pastor in Lima for several years before becoming a missionary to a jungle city in Peru. God allowed me to grow up not only in church, but actively participating in many aspects of my father’s ministry, including the music, Sunday school, children’s ministries, and interpreting for the deaf. After graduating from high school, I entered college to study Civil Engineering.
When God moved my father to a Chancay to plant a church, I was well on my way to a professional career in civil engineering. I met a wonderful young woman who was exactly what I had prayed and waited for. We married in 2021. As a newly married couple, my wife and I also moved to Chancay where there were many work opportunities for my field as a civil engineer. As we attended my father’s new church plant, my wife and I began to get more involved in weekly ministry. God worked in my heart regarding the spiritual needs I saw all around me in this new city.
God continually worked in my heart and challenged me. Would I be willing to give up everything I had worked for to take on Christ’s mission to the lost? “But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.” (Matthew 9:36) God confirmed that He was calling me to serve Him full time in missions, and in the months that followed continued to clarify a vision for the city of Chancay.
It has been a tremendous privilege for my family and I to serve for these last four years alongside my parents in their church planting ministry. During that time, I was enrolled in Bible college and graduated in December of 2025. By His grace, I was ordained to the ministry in February of 2026; my family is commissioned and sent out of Efata Baptist Church in Lima.
Hope's Testimony
God allowed me to grow up in a Christian home. I accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior when I was pretty small. I clearly remember the moment, although I do not remember how old I was, and remember that sense of relief that came when I finally understood that Jesus’ gift of forgiveness and cleansing could not be undone even when I sinned all over again.
At the age of thirteen, I was impacted by the preaching and the testimony of an evangelistic team that ministered at my home church. After surrendering my life to the Lord, I was baptized and took many other small steps of obedience on the way to my enrollment in Bible college. Before college, I had the opportunity to go on a mission trip and was impacted as I observed a dear missionary family going through some very real challenges on their field. I asked the Lord to send me to help some missionary family in need—I knew it wasn’t my time yet, but I felt certain that He would.
With a few years left in college, I was able to join another missions trip to Peru, to Efata Baptist Church in Lima. God opened the door for me to return to Peru for a few months out of my summer break for the following two years. During that time, I was able to serve in ministry to young deaf ladies, to my music students, and to the English-speaking kids who lived on the Efata campus. God graciously helped me to pick up Spanish as I went along. After graduating college in 2018, I returned to Peru. That was the year I met Isai.
After we were married in 2021, I was excited to be a part of the church plant that my husband's parents had begun in the new city. I watched Isai teach and disciple young men and sensed an awe of him that I had never felt even when I was just falling for him. This was a side of Isai that only came out when God was using him to reach out to others, a clarity and a gentleness that seemed supernatural. When Isai came to me about God possibly calling him into the ministry, I couldn’t contain my excitement. Although I had taken on a new dream when I married Isai, God was giving me back my old dream too. It has been a blessing to help the Chancay church plant during its first four years of growth.
Our Goals
What we believe
THE BIBLE
We believe the Bible is the Word of God, and that it is divinely inspired, infallible and the authority in all matters of faith and conduct. We use the King James Bible for all teaching in English. (II Timoty 3:16; II Peter 1:20-21)
THE HOLY SPIRIT
We believe in the person of the Holy Spirit who came forth the Father and Son to convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment, and to regenerate, sanctify, and empower all who believe in Jesus Christ. We believe that the Holy Spirit indwells every believer in Christ, and that He is an abiding helper, teacher, and guide. (John 14:16,17,29; 15:26-27; John 16:7-14; Romans 8:9; I Corinthians 3:16; 6:19)
THE ORDINANCES
There are only two ordinances: baptism and the Lord's Supper. Both must be performed by the local church. Immersion is the only biblical method of baptism. The Lord's Supper commemorates Christ's death until He comes again. (Matt. 28:19-20; John 3:23; Acts. 8:36-39; Rom. 6:2-6; 1 Cor. 11:23-28)
GOD
We believe in the Trinity, the unity of the Godhead. There are three persons: The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit. They are equally perfect in every divine quality and execute distinct but harmonious offices in the great work of redemption. (Genesis 1:1,26; John 1:1,3)
THE FATHER
We believe in God the Father, an infinite, personal spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, power, and love.
(Luke 10:21,22; Matthew 23:9; revelation 1:6)
ETERNAL STATE
We believe in literal Heaven, the eternal home of the redeemed. We believe in Hell, the Christ-less eternity for the lost, where there will be burning and tormenting for those without salvation, who have refused to receive the gospel and Jesus Christ as Lord. (Matthew 13:41-43; Mark 9:43-48; Luke 16:19-24; John 14:2; II Corinthians 5:8; Revelation 21-22)
SALVATION
Christ died for the whole world and tasted death for every man paying his sin debt and making it possible for everyone, everywhere to be saved. When a person receives Jesus, God gives them eternal life; therefore, they will never perish. (Matt. 21:29; Jn. 16:7-11; 1:29; 3:16; 10:28-29; Acts 20:21; Rom. 10:17; 1 Jn. 2:2)
SATAN
Satan is not merely an influence but a person. God created him as an angel, but the devil failed through pride and became the enemy of the Lord. He possesses intellect, emotions, and will. (2 Cor. 11:3; Ezek. 28:14; Rev. 12:17; Luke 22:31; Isa. 14:12-14; 2 Tim. 2:26)
THE RAPTURE
This is an imminent event in which the Lord Jesus Christ will come for His Church. The rapture will occur before the Tribulation Period. (1 Cor. 15:51-58; 1 Thess. 4:13-18, 5:9)
JESUS CHRIST
We believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten Son, conceived by the Holy Spirit. We believe Jesus Christ is God. We believe in His substitutionary atoning death, bodily resurrection, ascension into heaven, perpetual intercession for His people, and personal visible return to earth. (Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 1:26-38; John 1:1; 20:28; Romans 9:5; 8:46; II Corinthians 5:21; I Peter 2:21-23; Hebrews 1:1-3; 7:25; 9:28; I Timoty 3:16)
THE CHURCH
Christ is the founder of the church. The membership consists of persons who have professed faith in Christ, obeyed baptism, and united in fellowship. The two biblical offices are pastor and deacons. Congregational rule governs the church as an autonomous body. (Matt. 16:18; Acts 2:41; 1:23,26; 6:3,5; 15:22,30; 2 Cor. 8:19; 1 Tim. 3)
THE TRIBULATION
A period of seven years, which is the 70th week of Daniel. This will be a time of trouble for Israel's restoration and repentance, and for the world in general. (Isa. 24-27; Jer. 30:7; Matt. 24:4-25:30; Dan. 9:42-27; Rev. 3:10, 6-18)
THE SECOND COMING
After the seven-year tribulation period Christ will come to earth with His saints to set up His millennium kingdom, fulfilling Old Testament prophecy. (Zech. 14:1-3,12-15; Dt. 30:3-6; Ps. 2:19; Jer. 23:5,6; Dt. 28:63-68; Jer. 30:511)
THE MILLENNIUM
Satan will be bound and cast into the abyss. Israel will be established as head of the nations. Christ will reign personally in Jerusalem and the whole world will worship and serve Him. (Isa. 60:14-17; 61:6-7; Rev. 20:13; Isa. 2:3; 11:2,3; 40:4,5; Zech. 14:9,16-19)
THE GREAT COMMISSION
The Lord Jesus gave this commission to the church. The church is to go into the entire world and win the unsaved to Christ. Every believer is called to be a witness for Jesus. (Matt. 28:28-20; Mk. 16:15; Acts 1:8; Luke 19:10; 1 Tim. 1:15)