Contents Foreword 11 Introduction 13 1 On the Brink of Death 15 2 High-School Sweethearts – For Life 17 3 To Ghana and Back in Six Weeks 20 4 My Mailbox Experience 28 5 Zigzagging Through the States 34 6 Working Until You Drop 38 7 In the Empire of the Incas 42 8 The Years at Yale 45 9 Dodging Bullets 47 10 Setting the Course 52 11 Under the Equatorial Sun 61 12 The Starting Signal 73 13 Ten People Decide to Take Action 78 14 Peru or Bolivia? 81 15 Worthy of The Guinness Book of Records 87 16 Indoor Camping 91 17 A Marathon Through Germany 96 18 The Big Breakthrough 99 19 That’s Who You Need to Talk to 103 20 The Kaltenbach Story 106 21 At the European Parliament 111 22 Cogs in a Large Wheel 113 23 Seeing It Through 117 24 WANTED: Warehouse 121 25 Joyous Celebration 124 26 Arrow Prayers on the Highway 128 27 Emigrating to Peru 130 28 In the Mire of Corruption 133 29 Hurdles and Dead Ends 137 30 An Amazing Turn of Events 142 31 The Amphitheater 146 32 Twelve States in One Trip 150 33 Red Tape 153 34 The First Container 161 35 The Snowball Effect 166 36 Siege Conditions 172 37 The First Members of Staff Arrive 175 38 The Christmas Gift from Siemens 180 39 Packing Up 184 40 Seven Containers in One Fell Swoop 189 41 Bellevue Palace 193 42 Such Expensive Church Windows? 198 43 A Bold Troupe 206 44 Panic, Prayer, and Progress 210 45 Curtain Time for Diospi Suyana 216 46 From the Mountain Top Down to the Valley 218 47 The Hospital Will (Never) Be Finished 221 48 Antroferno, Luciana, and All the Others 224 49 President Sherlock Holmes 228 50 Power On 237 51 Waste Not, Want Not 246 52 Salzburg, São Paulo, Washington 250 53 Diospi Suyana Today 257 54 Our Most Loyal Friends 260 55 Faith in the Media 262 56 A Direct Line to God 265 57 In Appreciation 270 58 Our Team 273 Sponsor Companies 278