Witness and Discipleship

Faith Baptist Church is just over a month old now and growing! We are averaging around 20 people each service (different crowds each service, if only they could all come at the same time!). We have started discipleship with 4 of the different families who are coming. It is a joy to see how each of them respond as God illuminates His Word to them. This month we have several opportunities to invite people to special services. We have Father’s Day and we will also be having a special service on June 11. These special services will bring others to hear the Gospel clearly presented! We are praying to see souls saved!

Serving Together,

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

• Pray for souls saved.

• Pray for the families that have started discipleship.

• Pray for more visitors to come to Faith Baptist Church.

• Pray as this infant church will continue to grow.

Faith Baptist Church is now 6 weeks old! We are still just a baby, but we are growing! God is giving us a small core of people. We do not yet have any families that come to all three services each week, but we have several who come faithfully to a service, or even two services each week! One thing that has been trying is that it has rained on the days we have had church for several weeks now. This hurts our attendance. Everyone that goes to Faith Baptist Church walks with the exception of one family who rides a scooter. So when it rains, the only way people come to church is walking or riding a scooter in the rain. I understand that our attendance is lower when it rains. I cannot blame anyone for this. To walk 3-4 blocks in the cold rain with your children is a lot!

Sunday night was another cold, rainy night. Our church service started at 6:00 PM. At 5:53, we did not have anyone! I was sure that no one was coming. This would be the first service that no one came. But at 5:55 we had a couple show up! They had walked through the rain and walked in wet but happy to be at church! We started church and with just the married couple and my family. We sang a song and discussed a few things. As we were discussing a verse in the Bible another family arrived! They had also walked in the rain with their two very young children. They joined in. Before long another young man arrived. Before the end of the service, we had 12 people! These people found it worth the trouble of walking in the rain and cold, getting wet, walking with their wet children to arrive at church to learn more about God from His Word! I am very encouraged by this.

I believe God is working in those who are attending! I am thankful to see the dedication of these families. This is just the beginning!

Sundays are my favorite days of the week! We are excited about tomorrow. Today I will be inviting others to come to our services tomorrow. I already know we will have a few families who will be with us, and we are praying for more. One of the things I learned from a mentor of mine is that you can have the greatest message in the world to preach, but if no one comes to hear it, it does little good. We are praying for more visitors. We have had visitors at most of our services, and we are praying for more tomorrow for our morning service and our evening service. Please pray with us.

May 25 is just another day for many, but in Argentina it is one of our independence day (yes, we have more than one). Tomorrow is a national holiday here, but we will still have church, and this blog is really more about church tomorrow than about Argentina’s independence.

It happened Sunday night. Our evening service had ended and I was greeting the people who came before they left. A young man came up. He and his family have been coming to the church regularly now. They have also brought others to the church as well. Our midweek service is on Thursday night, which makes it almost impossible for him to come because he has a class he takes on that night. As we chatted before they started walking home, he smiled as he told me that he would be able to come to church on Thursday (which is tomorrow night). “That’s great,” I said, but I didn’t understand why. He told me it was because it is a national holiday (Argentina’s independence) and that his class was canceled.

For many in Argentina, tomorrow will be a day to play soccer, a day to grill asados, and a day to spend with family and friends. I am thankful to see that my friend is going to enjoy tomorrow evening in church, and that he is excited about it! We are a very young church and God is already giving us families who actually want to meet together to worship God and learn more from the Bible! We are praying for more families like this. We have discipleship going on with a few families and hope to start with more in the near future! In other words, these families are also growing.

The 25 of May looks to be another great day at Faith Baptist Church.