Spiritual Warfare Seminar

This month started off well with a seminar led by my father Al Bennett at our church plant here in Salamanca. On Sunday, September 30, my father preached, and then he gave his testimony after church when we had a special lunch and fellowship time. For those of you who don't know about my dad's testimony, he was deeply involved in the occult as a teen. His testimony is quite different than most and very impactful! Many people were touched by it, and eager to come to the seminar that we were holding in the following days. Dad had a few ministry opportunities as well.
Dad preaching Sunday morning, translated by John Goodman.

Praying with Roberto, translation by John Goodman.

Monday, October 1 through Thursday, October 4 in the evenings we held the seminar at one of the schools nearby. (The owner of this school is the man who is letting us use another of his school locations for our worship and other church meetings.) The turn out was very good. An average of 35 people a night, a few nights topping 40. People came from many different churches. His teachings were right from the scriptures, and though many of the topics centered around the work of our spiritual enemy, Satan, Dad focused a lot on assurance of salvation and the power of Christ, which seemed to be a theme greatly needed. It was a blessing to have both my parents here, and have my dad ministering to those near to me here.


(Mark Berry translated for my dad.)

Their visit was fun. They were my first visitors and since they are my parents, I had such a good time showing them around my world here, my Lima, and having them meet so many people that mean so much to me! Many days we were invited over by different people: Kike & Martha, Lea, Robin & Elita, and of course the Berry's and Rosses (missionary families on my team). It was so much fun for my parents to get to know my friends. I tried to show them and take them to the highlights of Lima, the highlights of my life here in Lima, current and former ministry locations.

We had a few days after the seminar to travel, and so we went to Cusco, my favorite visiting spot in Peru, they got to see one of the new wonders of the world-Machu Picchu. We had a good time other than their struggles with the altitude and dry air.


Thank you all for your prayers. Since Dad was speaking on a theme against our spiritual enemy, we knew we needed a lot of prayer, and Satan did have some attacks, but he didn't win the battle. Without your prayers his attacks would have been more strong, so a special thank you to all my guerreros de oración (prayer warriors)!!!