We arrived back to Argentina a week ago. We have hit the ground running as we are searching for a home to rent (our rental contract is coming to an end). This Sunday will be a great day at Faith Baptist Church. I look forward to the preaching, prayer, and the worship parts of the service. I also look forward to share a little of the vision for the coming days of the church. Please pray for us that God would lead us to the house He wants us to have.

The past days have been hard days. We have said goodbye, and are in the process of saying goodbye to family and friends. I have already been able to enjoy a few “farewell meals” with my family. We have said goodbye to friends and our Pastor in our church as well as friends and mentors in our mission board. We will spend much of the day today finishing up all the packing and saying goodbye to more family. We will start the drive down to Miami first thing in the morning where we will fly out Thursday morning. Lord willing, we will arrive in Argentina on Thursday evening.

Even though these are hard days, they are also exciting days. Faith Baptist Church in Lanús, Argentina is a small, infant church. We will be back with a small core of brothers and sisters in Christ. The church has been continuing in our absence. An Argentine young man from former missionary Jeff Bush’s ministry in La Plata has been preaching. He has done a wonderful job! We will be reunited with the people of Faith as we return. Only God knows the wonderful things we will see in this church over the next years. It all starts in just a few days.

We thank you all for your prayers. Great days are ahead!

This evening we will be with our sending church, Victory Baptist Church in Loganville, GA. This will be the last service before we return to Argentina. In just a few days we will be back! We are very excited about it. There will be much to do and we will “hit the ground running”. I believe there are great days ahead. Please pray for us as we finish packing, as we return, for our families as we say “good-bye”, and for Faith Baptist Church in Lanús, Argentina as we go forward for the glory of God!

The OG Summit took place a few weeks ago. The Summit is a three day event that was held at Lake Lanier Islands in the northern suburbs of Atlanta, GA. I enjoyed it very much this year as I do every year I attend. Here are just a few takeaways…

• The Preaching: It was some of the best preaching and teaching I have heard at a conference. There were many messages, some 2 minutes long, some 10, some 15, and some 20 minutes. I never felt like it was “overkill”. Each message was powerful and clear. The preachers ranged in age and experience in the ministry. There were younger guys studying to be preachers and there were veteran men who have been preaching for multiple decades and of course many in between.
• The Emphasis: There is no doubt what the emphasis is at the Summit. Missions/world evangelism is the theme. Each message, each skit, each session, everything revolved around this subject. The challenge was made clear to each attender. Be a missionary. Surrender to take the Gospel to other places around the world.
• The Sessions: The sessions covered specific countries around the world as well as how to make a strong missions program in your church. There were sessions taught by veteran missionaries, missionary wives, pastors, and laymen. I was personally challenged by the sessions that I attended.
• The Results: By the end of the Summit, we had several people who signed the missionary pledge, a pledge to change their “default setting” from “stay” to “go”, in other words, instead of saying “I will go if God calls me.”, “I am going, but I will stay if God calls me to stay.” We are thankful to see how God worked in their hearts.

The Summit is one of the great highlights of the year. I will be back in Argentina in just a little over a week. I am thankful God allowed me to be a part of the Summit. We are starting to branch out and hold the Summit in other locations. This gives the opportunity for others to go that live too far from Atlanta to be able to attend. More information will be released about the next Summit. It may be held in a city near you very soon.