Friend Day, Friday Nights, And More

We had a wonderful July! Our friend day was held on July 22. We also continued our Friday night youth nights. The ladies of the church also had a ladies fellowship. We had visitors in each of these different events! We also said goodbye to our intern family who has been with us for the past 6 months. Robert and Emma Becker have served faithfully over these past 6 months, passing out thousands of invitations each month. We will miss them. Please pray for them as they continue in God’s will for their lives.

In August we have major events that we are praying God will use to reach people. On August 07, we start free english classes. We have had many people interested in attending. We will also have child dedication on kids day, August 19. Great opportunities to reach more people!

Serving Together,

Patrick, Leslie, Lily, Piper, Ivy, and Isla Henry

• Pray for the free english classes, that people will be saved through them. Classes will be on Tuesdays and Saturdays

• Pray for our special child dedication service on August 19. 

• Pray for those attending Faith Baptist Church that they will catch on to the vision and purpose of our church!

This Sunday is unique for us. We have had Robert and Emma Becker with us as interns in Argentina since February. They have jumped in and served since the day they arrived. I am very thankful for them. We hate to see them go, but their 6 month internship has come to an end. This Sunday, Robert will be preaching and Emma will give a testimony during the evening service. After the service we have our monthly fellowship to celebrate all the birthdays and anniversaries from the prior month.

The Beckers will be leaving on Tuesday morning. Pray with us that God will bless this Sunday and continue to guide the Beckers as they prepare for the mission field.

A call to missions is a call to prepare. The “surrender” is really just the start. We have looked at different aspects in preparing for the mission field, including deputation, but I would like to focus on deputation a bit more.

The truth is that deputation is not broken. Deputation works, but it is work. In other words, deputation is not a Sunday morning, Sunday night, and Wednesday night part-time job. It is a full-time job that should be worked everyday. I have read posts from other missionaries who want to debate how deputation is not the way to raise support and that there needs to be a better way, or that there must be a better way to improve deputation. They don’t ask me, but if they did I would tell them that the reason deputation is not satisfactory to them is because they are not working hard enough. With just a hand full of questions, this can be proven. “How long have you been on deputation?” “How many hours do you spend calling churches each day?” “How many days do you call 9 hours or more?” “How many scheduled meetings do you have for next month?”

If God has called you to be a missionary and you are on deputation, it is important that you work hard!

The push back will be that I am “taking God out of deputation”. I am not. The only way a missionary ever does anything is because of our God. Jesus made very clear that apart from Him, we cannot do anything (John 15:5). The idea that faith in God does not propel us to action is contrary to the teachings in James 2. It is also contrary to logic. If a believer’s child was in a pool and in danger of drowning, would the believer pray to God to save his child and sit and watch to see how God may do it? No. The believer would beg God to save his child as he ran out and jumped into the pool to pull his child to safety. That is logical and that is biblical faith. Beg God, believe God, and work hard believing God is going to carry out His plan!

Preparing for the mission field is working hard and that is not just on the mission field, but on deputation as well.

Tomorrow is a special day for us at Faith Baptist Church. Yesterday was Friend Day in Argentina. We will be celebrating the day tomorrow at the church. 1,000 invitations have been given out. Even more have been invited. We are praying for a great day. Please pray that way with us. This is our big push for the month. We are trusting that God will use this special day.

In the past two weeks we have had two new visitors to our Friday night youth nights. Please pray God blesses and works in the hearts of these two young men!

In August we will be holding English classes. This has brought a lot of interest. Of course the goal is not to teach English but to share the truth about Jesus and the salvation all can have through faith in Him. Pray that God uses each of these special events.