THE TEAM AS A WHOLE
CHILE MISSION TEAM PURPOSE STATEMENT:
Making Jesus known and changing lives through loving, teaching, equipping, proclaiming, and sending.
The Chile Mission team, begun through Jack & Janine Swanson in 1997, is committed to the above purpose. The team itself is more of a ‘team network’, as its members may or may not work together geographically or even in the same local mission outreach. The team dynamic is based upon mutual prayer, opportunities to support and help one another, and planned social settings.
The team’s ministries are always developing and evolving forward, as God provides new team members with their own unique giftings and ministries. These ministries include:
- a work with abandoned children, who live in houses built on the team’s property in urban La Cisterna. The children live “in family” perhaps for the first time in their lives, with Chilean Christian house parents and the ultimate goal is to find permanent families for each child.
- church development.
- Bible teaching, equipping, and sending of Chilean pastors and missionaries.
- Ministering and evangelizing in the earthquake/tidal wave hit coastal area of Chile, five hours south of Santiago.
- Media development that includes dvd presentations and internet radio programs.
- Community ministries that include and “English Club” and teaching in a live-in drug rehabilitation center for men.
- an active internship opportunity program, both short and long term.
