Family Welch’s third Christmas in Peru
Six Welch children are playing in our yard. Inside Chris and Sandi and their two eldest sons Jake and Sam are sitting around our dinner table. Satellite expert Chris talks about his past: “I worked for commercial TV-channels in Australia for 28 years. I was often invited to the retirement parties of old colleagues. It was a custom that the invited delegation of the board of directors asked the question: “What were the highlights of your career?” The answers given disillusioned me, since they were all vanities. And these memories were really the highlights of a long and successful career? It became clear to me that we can waste our lives without having made the world an incy wincy bit better. Working now as a missionary I know exactly what I am using my working life for. With my know-how I can help spread the good news in Peru!”
Christmas Eve 2018. If it is true that God started the biggest rescue mission of human history with the baby in the manger, then each of us must ask the following question: “For what or whom do I live? Does everything revolve around me or do I play my part in fulfilling God’s commission in this world?”
The story about the Australian family Welch will also be documented in my third book on Diospi Suyana. After a successful career on the Green Continent Chris and Sandi headed to Peru with their eight children in May 2016. So far the man from Sydney has connected four of our mission’s aerial towers for Diospi Suyana to a space satellite. Hundreds of thousands of Peruvians can now listen to the “best news in the world”, i.e. the Christmas Story.
The Australian is convinced about the meaning of his work in Peru. I would like to remind you what happened this summer: on 1st July our aerial tower in Puerto Maldonado went on air. Two days later at the crack of dawn a young man rang us in our studio. Because of a family tragedy a few minutes before he wanted to shoot himself with his service pistol. But then he heard Diospi Suyana Radio and drew a new hope. The pistol remained in his belt./KDJ
