Capital:
Lima
Population:
29,180,899
Languages:
Spanish (official), Quechua (official), Aymara, and a large number of minor Amazonian languages.
Religion:
Roman Catholic 81%, Seventh Day Adventist 1.4%, other Christian 0.7%, other 0.6%, unspecified or none 16.3%
Life Expectancy:
70.44 years
GDP per-capita:
$7,800
Of Interest:
Shares control of Lago Titicaca, the world's highest navigable lake, with Bolivia; home to a remote slope of Nevado Mismi, a 5,316m peak, which is the ultimate source of the Amazon River. World's second largest producer of coca leaf, though it lags far behind Colombia.
Location:
Western South America, bordering the South Pacific Ocean, between Chile and Ecuador
Voice Of God Recordings - Peru
Office Manager:
Brother Felix Ruiz
Short History of Office Manager:
In 1982, there was almost war against Ecuador for border issues. Because I worked in the Peruvian Army, I had to go to the battlefront, and my company was located right on the border where the confrontation was to start. We were there for six months, and the war did not actually start. I wanted to die there and never return home because it felt like a hell to me. Sure enough, it was a war between the Light and the darkness. My wife was persuading me to believe what she believed and I would say to her, “You had your brain washed and now you want to wash mine. You are really wrong!”
On July 1985, I took a Message book that my wife had, “Standing in the Gap.” I read it three times; the first time I read it like I would read a newspaper, but the second and third time I found things that I did not see the first time. That brought a strange feeling and curiosity to my mind. In those years I did not have much time because of my work as an accountant clerk for the Army's General Inspector Department. I had to travel continually to perform auditory investigations outside the city.
On March 1988, I resigned from my job and told my bosses that I would retire to form my own company. It is strange to think that I was never able to do this. Now I understand that it was the Lord taking me out of those places full of corruption. I started reading the Message books and the Bible. That was the time of my first love for the Lord.
Months before 1988, I felt much anguish in my soul and sadness in my heart. I would lock myself in my office to cry like a baby. On October 1988, one day in the morning, I fell on my knees and cried out to the Lord and said, "Lord, what do you want me to do? I understand I am a wretched man; I am a thief, drunk, liar, etc. There is nothing good in me. Lord, if you clean me I will serve you." I was for three hours on the floor crying. I felt a different man.
By revelation, I understood that God had been keeping me since the day I was born. Till that time I was inflated with scientific knowledge, but from that time I learned I was nothing but a miserable man. All the degrees and diplomas that I got from college were just because the Angel of the Lord was at my side. Humanly speaking it would have been impossible for me to accomplish all that.
On December of the same year, I was baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. My pastor did not want to baptize me, because he thought I was a spy from the Army. He thought I was planning to kill him and his family and congregation. He had reason for this, as years before I had threatened him when my wife started believing the Message.
In 1991, my pastor, Brother Victor Flores, was appointed as Voice Of God distributor of this precious Message in my country. In those years the terrorism and drug traffic was everywhere. My pastor chose me as an assistant for the distribution work. We could not visit the churches much during those years because of terrorism, till 2000. On January 2002, I was appointed as the VGR distributor till this day. I asked the Lord for wisdom. I have many mistakes, but I struggle to do things right.
May God bless you!
Felix Ruiz Miguel