While Scott Hargrove removes duct tape that protected his hands during sledgehammer work, girls from the Torre Fuerte girls home in Peru gather by him after school.
After 20 years as pastor of the Church of the Nazarene in Chelan, Scott Hargrove found a new mission in his life. Literally.
He and his wife, Leslie, and their youngest children are selling their house and most of their possessions and moving to a poverty-stricken city in Peru to spend their days working with abused and abandoned girls in a missionary home called Torre Fuerte.
They’re ready to go as soon as the house sells, and plan to stay as long as it feels right. They ask people who are willing to make small, monthly contributions to help pay their living expenses while they’re there.
Hargrove, 48, is the first to admit this would be a scary decision, if he wasn’t absolutely sure it is right for him and his family.
“I’m going from a paid ministry to an uncompensated position. From a First World country to a Third World country. From a place where I know the language — and that’s what I work with, is language — to a place where I’m scrambling to learn the language,” he said. “There’s not a lot of reasons to do this. But we’re as certain as we could possibly be that this is what we’re supposed to do next.”
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