We are Scott and Nichole Welsh and we have two children, Stephen (9), and Giovanna(7).  We work in Peru, South America with the Caquinte people.  My (Scott’s) parents were missionaries in Colombia, SA with NTM and that is how I was exposed to missionary work and felt the Lord leading me in this direction starting in about the seventh grade.  Nichole grew up in Michigan and God led her into missions through the different missionaries that came to share at her church when she was younger. 

We met each other at the NTM Language Institute in Jan. of 1996 and were married in July of that year.  We went to Peru with the goal of partnering with some of the Indian believers there that had invited us to help them reach some of the isolated tribes there in the jungle.  We arrived in Peru in Jan. of 1998 and began our partnership with these believers.  A large part of our ministry at that time was on-site training of these believers in the area of cross-cultural ministry, as well as trying to locate the isolated people groups. 

Through God’s grace that partnership has been a tremendous blessing and an encouragement to us as they now have taken on that ministry on their own.  We ourselves have now moved into a different tribe called the Caquinte.  They have just recently received the NT in their own language, but they have not had much actual teaching in their language.  The Caquinte invited us to come and teach them about God and His Word.  Right now we are in the process of learning their language and culture with the goal of being able to teach and disciple them.  Ultimately we would love to see some of them then go on to be missionaries just as we were able to see happen among the other tribe we initially partnered with.
   
Most of our day, while in the village, is spent in language learning and building relationships with the people.  Also, Nichole is homeschooling the children in the mornings, and so that is a big job.  We have really been enjoying the Caquinte people and their friendships with us.  God has blessed us with their positive attitudes towards us.  We are looking forward to the day when we can begin to teach and disciple them in their language.  We really do cherish your prayers for us and the ministry that God is doing among the Caquinte.
 
Contact info:
Email: snsgwelsh@gmail.com
Phone: 011-51-61-57-8147
Address: Apartado 601
            Pucallpa
            Peru