Mike and MonaRé Shields

INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES TO LATIN AMERICA

July 2009 Buenos Aires, Argentina

We spent nearly three weeks in July in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  MonaRe was teaching in the post-grad LAAST Seminar with 42 students from 6 countries.  What a challenge to train these people who represent thousands in their churches and ministries.

mona-teaching1Each seminar requires two weeks of class room instruction and intensive interaction with students in after class meetings.  It is one of the most productive and formative efforts for leaders.  Mike spoke for the seminar convocation, Bible School Chapel, and in a line up of churches.

Avance Bldg-2004A highlight was to see the progress of AVANCE CHRISTIANO. We’ve helped this exciting church since the inception of the building program. When we bought this building in 2004, it was just some columns, no roof,  and unfinished.  It seemed like an impossible dream.Avance - July 09

Today  this church has grown to nearly a thousand in weekly attendance.

We prayed Prayer with Avance congregationwith hundreds of people who came to the altar area at the conclusion of the service when Mike spoke.  What an incredible return on investment for a missions project!  A special thanks to Pastor Jerry Brooks at Oak Creek Assembly in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for making a major investment in this sister congregation.

A Major Step of Faith

Rocky Grams, MonaRe’s brother, is the President of the largest resident Bible School in South America.  Hundreds of students are coming from all over Latin America to study.  With as many as 12 to a room in the dorms, there is an urgent need to finish this new facility.  We’re believing God to help raise the necessary funds to see see this miracle building come up.

IBRP Construction

Please pray that many friends will make bold steps of faith to financially support this project in Argentina.  It is the greatest place in Latin America to prepare young men and women to serve in the harvest fields of revival!

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