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Quick Update: Visitors

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We are very blessed to serve Jesus in Argentina. Last night we had our midweek service. Before the service, Ashley King (Jason and Ashley King are a missionary couple that serve with us), spent time with three girls who have been attending our english classes. She invited them to the service that was to start in just a few minutes and they stayed with us. One of the young ladies, Tamara, is asking Ashley a lot of questions about the Bible, about God’s plan for her life, and other questions. I believe God is working in her heart. Please pray for her.

This Sunday we have 3 families who have committed to visit us for the first time. Please pray with us they come to church. We also have a few families who should be coming back for the second and third time. We are very excited to see that God is drawing people to hear the Gospel. Thousands of invitations have been given and we are seeing God work. Pray for people saved and lives changed.

Preparing for the Mission Field: Internship

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Okay, so you arrive on the filed. You are beyond excited. You have prayed, dedicated yourself, travelled thousands of miles, presented what God has placed in your heart in hundreds of churches, and you have either packed up, stored, or sold everything you own to get to this moment. As the plane touches down on the tarmac you can barely contain yourself. What is this going to be like? Maybe you visited the country on a survey trip or a missions trip some years ago. Perhaps you are thinking of all the wonderful memories from that trip. Maybe you are thinking of how beautiful all the pictures you saw of this country you will now call home. You get off the plane, grab all of your stuff and start the process of leaving the secured area of the airport. 
Everything is beautiful (or in some cases maybe it isn’t as beautiful as you imagined). For about a month you may love everything about it. But soon, things start to change. This beautiful country is not so beautiful anymore. These sweet people are now taking advantage of you, the foreigner. The pictures you saw never expressed such dishonesty. The water makes you sick, the food that was so good the first few weeks just isn’t like the food “back home”. The dream starts to turn into a nightmare because you realize that this isn’t a 2 week mission trip, this is now your life. 
What I am describing happens. The missionary’s dream of the mission field is just not the reality. So how can we combat this? I think the very best way is a 6 month internship with a veteran missionary. I know this seems like it “slows things down” on the missionary’s timeline. But this will prepare him and his family for what real life on the mission field really is. I can tell you that the above story was not our families experience, and I can tell you the reason for that was because of our internship. My family and I completed an internship in Peru/Chile in 2012. We learned a lot. We lived the good and the bad. We experienced the sickness from the water (not fun), we enjoyed the incredible food, we understood what it meant to miss family and friends back in the States, we lived our lives on the mission field. This prepared us for our ministry here in Argentina in so many ways. When we landed in Argentina, we did not have unrealistic expectations of how life would be, we knew what we were walking into, at least as much as one can know.
  • We knew that trying to get around not knowing the language well was going to be hard and trying.
  • We knew nationals would laugh at our attempts to speak.
  • We knew that language learning is not fun (the only people who enjoy the process of learning a language are the people who have never done it). 
  • We knew that setting up would take much longer than we want it to.
  • We knew the food would be different and the way of life would be totally different.
  • We knew that culture shock was real and would be experienced in a few short weeks.
  • We saw the “behind the scenes” of a ministry on the mission field and even helped serve in that ministry.
We knew all of this because we had already experienced it. Some say that experience is the best teacher. Although many missionaries can go straight to the mission field and God use them greatly without ever completing one, the truth is the vast majority of us would be better off going on the 6 month internship. It is not a necessity, but it is a great option. That being said we hosted interns in Argentina. Robert and Emma Becker are now on deputations as missionaries to Argentina. They were with us for 6 months. They arrived not knowing almost anything in the language, they didn’t know how to get around, they didn’t know how to use the buses, trains, or taxis. They didn’t know how to buy food. Through their internship they learned how to do all of that. They also served in the ministry here. They grew in their faith and prepared for the ministry. This young family is now ready to go to the mission field without any preconceived beliefs of what life on the mission field is. They are ready and will be successful on the mission field (they also are booking meetings right now, here is a link to their website: heisglorified.blog). They are prepared for ministry on the mission field. 
You can be prepared like this as well. If God is working in your heart about the foreign mission field, consider an internship. Let us know if you have any questions. We will happily provide you with more details.

September 2018 Missions Letter

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Child Dedication & English Classes

In August, we started hosting free English classes. We have had a great turn out for this. We have had three families visit the church thus far as a result of the classes. One lady named Janet who visited the church came to me and asked me to explain what “salvation” was to her and her family. We are trying to coordinate a day when we can go to their home and talk about salvation in detail with her and her family. Please pray for their salvation. We also had our child dedication service and had two visiting families. Seven children were dedicated to the Lord in that service!

This month we have a “family photo day”. Everyone who attends will have a professional photo taken of their family and receive a copy of the photo for free. Please pray this attracts many people to the church to learn about the gospel. 

Serving Together,

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

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  • Pray for Janet and her family that they will believe on Jesus for their salvation this month.
  • Pray for the free English classes, that people will be saved through them. Classes will be on Tuesdays and Saturdays
  • Pray for our special family photo day on September 23. 
  • Pray for the discipleship efforts going on in the church with three people. 

 

Our Newest Team Members

In July, Robert and Emma Becker completed a six month internship with us in Argentina. They studied, learned, served, and on the mission field. They are now on deputation to come back to Argentina as church planting missionaries. They are scheduling meetings now. If you are interested in having Robert and Emma into your church to share their hearts about Argentina, you can contact them at rnbmissions@gmail.com.

Quick Update: Our First Missionary

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This Sunday is another special Sunday. We will be hosting our first missionary. Jairo is the product of the ministry of Jeff Bush (my missions director). Jairo is an Argentine who will be going to Morocco as a missionary. He will presenting his ministry at Faith Baptist Church on Sunday night. This will be our first missionary! The people who attend the church will have the opportunity to meet a missionary and see that God can use them to reach others as well. God is so good to us to give us this opportunity!