Jose Casteaneda Julca, 70, and Victor Manuel Ruiz, 68, learned it's never too late to serve God.

Casteaneda is pastor of El Tablazo Church of the Nazarene, which recently planted a daughter church. That church, Pueblo Nuevo Church of the Nazarene in Colán, was organized August 23 on the Peru Pacifico Norte District with 50 full members. Pueblo Nuevo, under Manuel's leadership, has started four daughter churches.

Manuel insists the credit belongs to God.

“I don’t do anything,” he said. “I am like this drum; if no one comes to play it, it doesn’t produce any sound. Just like me, if the Holy Spirit doesn’t use me, I am nothing.”

--Church of the Nazarene South America Region