One more giant step forward...

Our missionary friends

We just got back from a trip to San Juan in the province of San Juan. Our national friends, Ricardo and Vilma Orozco just moved there a couple of months ago to start a new work. We all really need to cover them in prayer as they start this new work from scratch.
San Juan is in a very dry climate in the desert area of Argentina. Temperatures are extremely high in the summer. Please pray that God will strengthen and heal Ricardo and Vilma with their health issues so that they will have the strength to tackle this great mission that the Lord has called them to do.

Here are a few pictures of the out lying area.  Remember to pray for the Orozco family!


                 

                                       

WINDOWS AND DOORS!!!!! (almost...)

We thought this day would never come... but it came... and almost all the windows and doors were installed.  Praise the Lord!!  Also big thank-yous go out to some of our Argentine friends who came out to help along with our nephew Brandon and a few young men from our church. We have the glass promised to arrive and be installed by this Friday or Saturday. The way it has been going so far, it doesn't seem like that will happen. But, we will trust the Lord's timing to be perfect and try not to fret. 
We are still very anxious to have the building finished enough to have meetings there. Please keep praying for us that it will happen soon.  It would be excellent to have Easter services there!!


Sandy

Plastering Ninjas!!

You can't see the progress from the outside... but on the inside, what a difference! Two bothers, Recayte, who are our brothers in the faith, came for three days to work on plastering walls in our building. We never dreamed how fast these two men could work! They were like Ninjas flinging that plaster on the walls!! They finished all the walls that were undone in the temple area, finished the entryway, and did most of the stairway and office. They probably would have finished that if we wouldn't have run out of material! Thanks guys for your sacrifice in coming to work so hard for our church home.


Now this Saturday we are having a kid's activity in the building. Please pray that these children and new neighborhood children will recieve God's message of salvation. Also pray that they will catch the vision of what the Lord can do in their neighborhood through the Iglesia Bautista Nueva Vida (New Life Baptist Church)! 


Sandy

Youth Camp season - Over...

It's hard to believe that another camp season has come and gone. Now all that is left to do is praise the Lord for saving the souls of 19 children and teens and for the decisions that were made. We will also be praying that all these young souls will remain "connected" to the vine and that we will see them again next year when camp season comes around again. John 15:5

We are so grateful for all those who participated in the running of the camp and for those who volunteered their time as counselors.

                        

Jovenes Conectados – Connected Youth (sounds better in Spanish!!)

Our theme this year for camp was Jovenes Conectados or Connected Youth in English. It doesn’t sound very cool in English but it was very effective in Spanish. Mike was the speaker for the second week of 12-14 year old teens. We divided the campers in to four teams – Twitter, Yahoo, Google, and Facebook – for game time and small group counsel time.

In the first two camps of teenagers we had 152 campers. We saw 9 teens accept the Lord as Savior (two of those I was privileged to lead) and over 40 other decisions were made. Our church in Junín sent 8 campers to these camps and many of them made personal decisions for the Lord.

Now we have the last camp to go. The hardest one of all. The most numerous camp of 8-11 year olds.  It is a lot of work and the noise level triples!! It’s probably the most fun camp because children of this age are so tender and loving and don’t have many inhibitions. They play their hearts out and are very open to listen to God’s Word.

Pray for our camp season that what we are able to sow the churches here in Argentina will be able to reap all year long!  Sandy

Old Times and a New Year

I know I promised pictures of the construction but we have been put on hold for a little while as we wait for our windows to be made and the glass to come in.  But, it's all in God's good timing.  Camp season is quickly coming and that takes up 4 weeks of our summer!!  I am happy to say that God blessed above our expectations and provided the funds to order all the windows and doors!  It's so exciting to know that it won't be long now until we will finally be able to have regular meetings in the church's own building and also to collect on all the promises of visitors when we inaugurate.

The last few days have seem liked old times for us.  Our son Michael was able to come visit for about 13 days.  It feels like he had never left for college.  Once again we have had our house full of young people just hanging out! But, reality is approaching too quickly.  In a few days we will be taking Michael back to the airport to say good-bye and to send him off, far away... 


We are so extremely excited about  2011!!  Sometimes I just can't get my mind around all the things that I know the Lord has in store for us!  And I'm not even considering the things that are unexpected.  It's going to be a great year!


I'll try and post about our camps that are coming up. We have 3 of them in a row so it may take me a week or so to get caught up.


Have a blessed 2011 everyone!!


Sandy