¡Hola from Arequipa, Peru! We’re Jeremy and Katie Daggett, on the cusp of 11 years in Arequipa. Along with Adileen and Kinney we make up the current version of Team Arequipa since 2019. This is “The Daggetts in Arequipa” (née Team Arequipa Newsletter), a collection of stories, articles, pictures and prayer requests which we also publish out to the Team Arequipa blog. It’s here for those who can’t handle another email in their inbox—just come see us whenever you’d like.
In this issue, Katie shares about a complicated and somewhat hilarious process for getting her Peruvian driver's license, I reflect on how special the work is with Living Libraries has been in special thanks to all who contributed, and give just a quick snapshot of our semester with 35 students. Finally, we give Sarah a closing word as she transitions back to living in the US. We thank you so much for your ongoing prayers for us and for what is happening in Arequipa!
We’re the Daggetts: Katie, Jeremy, Adileen (almost 9! Just finished 3rd grade!) and Kinney (Almost 6! Just finished kindergarten) and we’ve lived and worked in Arequipa, Peru for the last ten years. This is the Team Arequipa Newsletter, a publication that’s been running consistently for more than 15 years and for which you, at some point, signed up to receive in your electronic mailbox. Overloaded? Unsubscribe. Here to stay? Welcome!
We’re the Daggetts and for the last ten years (!!) we have lived and worked in a city of a million people in southern Peru. Katie and I share faith and hope with small house churches as we work to unite love of God and love of neighbor in the city of Arequipa. We work with a small non-profit doing sustainable community development focusing on education and sharing life with Arequipa’s marginalized communities. We direct Harding University Latin America, a residential study abroad program where we invite 20-30 students every spring into the process of intercultural spiritual formation.
¡Hola from Arequipa! We’re well into 2022 and less than two weeks away from our next Harding University Latin America group arriving. There are 30 students coming along with Jonathan Roberts (who directs Harding’s financial aid) and our dear friends Debora and Sira (with whom we spent a significant amount of time in the 2020 lockdown).
Well, that’s all I’ve got. Thank you for joining us in prayer. For those at Cedar Lane and Central who support us directly through giving to those churches—thank you. We’re more convinced than ever before that we are where we need to be, thankful for the chance to be a part of God’s mission here in Arequipa. Let’s just all do our best to show the love of Christ whenever we get the chance. That infinite, unknowable, boundless, Ephesians 3:14-21 love of Christ that changes everything. If you’re looking for something to read…
We're just a family living in Arequipa doing our best to follow God's lead as God's family experiences reconciliation, new creation, justice, wellbeing, and joy. By the way, the “we” here is: Jeremy, Katie, Adileen, and Kinney Daggett. We work with two small house churches. We try to build community around shared faith and hope in the neighborhood. We work with the Christian Urban Development Association helping vulnerable communities break cycles of poverty in education. And we direct Harding University Latin America.
