South Bay church members visit Peru on environmental mission

Seven church members representing the Presbytery of San Jose recently traveled to Peru on a mission to observe and document what organizations there are doing for the environment.

They weren’t there, however, to tell the local people what to do or to fix problems.

“That doesn’t work,” said the Rev. Elizabeth Boatwright, who attends First Presbyterian Church of Mountain View and who went to Peru. “What we wanted to do is hear their story, their solutions, their dreams. Then our work...