Missions in the Amazon
 
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Our Ministry 
Our Ministry is Interdenominational.  We believe in the Holy Bible and serve Jesus Christ as our only Lord and Personal Savior.  We believe in baptism in water as a profession of our faith and that our path is depicted in the Word of God, the Bible.  Prayer is the way we communicate with God, we partake of the Communion, and preach that grace and mercy are given by God for his children.  Finally, we believe that our Lord will eventually return to this world through the Second Coming of Jesus and that only His followers will be saved.
 + Outreach
To date, our leader, Jorge Montero, has reached 30 villages within the Amazon Region in the past 20 years of ministry and hopes to reach out to many more in the upcoming years.  
 + Average Village Size
There are 3 classifications of village size in the Amazon.  They are as follows: Small (20 to 30 families), Medium (50 to 60 families), and Large (110 to 120 families).  Aventuras Misioneras has villages of all three sizes in their congregation.
+ The Language
The principle language of the Peruvian Amazon is Spanish.  Many of the villages have their own dialect, but with the modernization of many of the tribes, Spanish has spread throughout.  We do not consider it a necessity to know Spanish because we have volunteer translators, as well as Jorge, to help accomodate language barrier.  Also, there are opportunites to take Spanish classes if a missionary would so desire to take them while in Peru.

 
  Weather
 
Seasons are more or less opposite of those in the US.  The rainy season is usually that of the the Fall & Winter months (70 - 80° F) and the Summer is more temperate (80-90° F).
 
 Local Diet
 
The most common foods eatin are chicken, fish, rice, & potatoes.  Platanos (a member of the banana family) are also a common treat.
 
 Nature
 
The Peruvian Amazon Rainforest is home to many of the world's most exotic animals and landscapes.
 
Remanente de Dios
Jorge's ministy Aventuras Misioneras is a outreach of his church in Iquitios, Peru.  The church, Remanente de Dios, is under Pastor Elias Valles' vision and is Jorge's mentor (Both the church and pastor are featured below).  Remanente is the sole supporter of Jorge's ministry outside of the few donations made by missionaries who have traveled with him and been a part of Jorge's work.  As you can see in the picture to the left (the church in Nuevo San Juan), the churches that Jorge plants are a part of the Remanente de Dios congregation and to this day, 30 churches have been built in villages throughout the Amazon. 
 
Jorge is committed to doing the work set before him by God.  While being a part of the Remanente de Dios church, he has made the Peruvian Amazon his mission field.  He is currently waiting on funding to build 10 churches that are being waited on by different tribes of the Amazon.
 
 
 
Jorge's Family
Jorge is happily married to his wife Elvira. Together they have two children, a daughter, Grace, 18, and a son, Eliezar, 16.  Jorge's wife takes care of the home in Iquitos when he is out ministering in the jungle, working as a pharmacist and taking care of the children.  She is also a pastor at Remanente de Dios.  Grace is a very joyful and outgoing individual, one day hoping to join her father as a missionary.  Eliezar is a smart and focused teen who enjoys working with computers and other electronics.  Together the Montero family is committed to ministry and mold their lives around the church.  The entire family participates in the Congreso and they all take their turn in joining Jorge in the mission field throughout the year. 
 
Jorge Montero Torres was born March 13, 1965, in the city of Yurimaguas, Loreto.  He started his studies in the Industrial School of Yurimaguas and in the National School of Iquitos. He completed his studies in the Baptist Seminary of Iquitos in three years. He was then accepted to the Molina Seminary in Lima. He was ordained as a missionary in 1987 by the pastor and apostol Oscar Valles Guabloche. Since then, he has assumed the role of Director and leader of Aventuras Misioneras ministry which extends out from Remanente de Dios.  He loves working with the ethnic communities of the Urarinas on the Chambira River and the mixed communities on the Marañon and Huallaga River.
Interesting Facts on Jorge's Ministry
 To get to his Amazon base in Nuevo San Juan, it takes 30 hrs. on a barge or 7 hrs. on a fast boat
Many of the villages under Jorge's ministry have never been visited by people outside of the jungle.
Some Background on the Montero Family
Grace is a wonderful dancer and performs at church services during worship
Eliezar enjoys doing dramas to communicate the Scriptures to the villagers in an interesting way