November 2009 Argentina & Chile
We spent the first 10 days of this November ministry trip in Argentina. After spending several days at the Rio Platte Bible Institute and then speaking in the bustling, booming Avance Church in Buenos Aires, we flew two hours south into the deep Argentine zone of the Patagonia.
What an opportunity to participate in the Patagonian Bible Institute’s Spiritual Emphasis week. Our hosts, Martin & Charlotte Jacobson and Eddie & Diana Echavarria, have done an amazing job developing a beautifully built ministry training school in the heart of the Welsh territory! This historically rich area is characterized by its isolation and distance from major cities. Yet God is calling scores of young people to prepare for ministry in the last frontier of the western hemisphere.
All week long MonaRe and I taught four hours of classes each morning, spoke for the morning chapels, and then spoke in the evening Spiritual Emphasis services. Each day, in so many of the sessions, there was a powerful touch of God on the students. It was obvious to us the school leadership of the Jacobson/Echavarria team has done an outstanding job of training and teaching those young men and women on how to respond to the voice of the Holy Spirit.
CHILE - ADVANCED MINISTERIAL ENRICHMENT SEMINAR AND LOCAL MINISTRIES
We have spent the remainder of the month of November in Chile. MonaRe is part of the team of professors for ISUM (Instituto de Superacion Ministerial) or the Advanced Ministerial Enrichment Seminars. I have been on an intensive trek of speaking in churches in the south of the country (from Santiago 7 1/2 hours south to Concepcion and back). We have ministered to hundreds of people many places.
This year we’ll spend Thanksgiving with our ministry colleagues in Chile. Although we’re 6,000 miles from our Minnesota base of family and friends we are encouraged by the steady stream of encouraging words of so many who keep in touch through Facebook and e-mail. We are overwhelmed by God’s goodness and give thanks with all of you for blessings that cannot be adequately enumerated.
WE ARE THANKFUL TO GOD, AND THANKFUL FOR ALL OF YOU!
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