Global Outreach
Dick & Ruth Robinson
Dick and Ruth met in Pucallpa, Peru – gateway city to the Amazon widely populated by indigenous tribal peoples, different cultures and languages, and a different spiritual universe populated by unseen spirits and subject to brujos (or witchdoctors). Most are farmers and fishermen; small villages are widely scattered, often difficult to access except by rivers or mission floatplanes.
Dick is a pastor by profession with a long family history in evangelical missions. Ruth is an educator, before her birth called by the Lord to be a national missionary to the indigenous peoples. They met in 2002 when on a missionary visit to the jungle; after a long friendship they married in 2010, forming RiverWind, Inc as a 501 (c) (3) evangelical nonprofit mission focused on developing servant leaders for remote indigenous churches. Since moving to serve full-time in the Amazon, they have grown RiverWind into a national, missionary movement, training national believers to be reaching out to indigenous peoples.
Today RiverWind has four programs:
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Servant Leadership including oral communication of the Good News – and pastoral ministry training
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Community Development offering programs for students and sports ministry
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Health Promotion especially focused on families with infants from conception to age two (1,000 Days), as well as training health care providers for remote villages
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Environmental Stewardship RiverWind has a mission center in the Amazon, as well as a Leadership Training Center upriver in the deep jungle, relatively close to many remote villages.
Our goal is to impact a generation of emerging South American, Peruvian church leaders to impact the jungle and cities of Peru for the Kingdom of God. We welcome church-based mission teams, individual volunteers and will host mission-minded internships.
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