THE CHILE MISSION AS A WHOLE

CHILE MISSION PURPOSE STATEMENT:

Sent out by the Church…. to reach people, and especially children, with the love of Jesus, that they might know and follow him too.

Jack & Janine Swanson left the United States with their four children as Christian missionaries in August, 1992 to spend a year in Costa Rica to begin learning Spanish and Latin culture.  They arrived in Santiago, Chile in November, 1993 to begin serving the Lord in Chile, where they still serve today.

Chile Mission as an entity began to develop in 2001 with the purchase of a ministry site property in La Cisterna, Santiago.  The property today is fully developed and contains two sets of connected 2-story duplexes, along with a 2-story general ministry building at the rear of the property.  God has directed changes in the use of the property since 2001, and it continues as a vital, God-led, ministry center.

CHILE MISSION’S Mission Statement (seen above) remains fully in place through its mission in two distinct parts of the country.

Different dimensions of our work:

• Our “CASA DE ACOGIDA” (Refuge house “DULCE REFUGIO”) is a work for parents of children and other adults coming to Santiago for complicated medical issues and treatments.  They stay in two of the duplex houses, men in one and women in the other.  The work involves housing and emotional & spiritual support for those  that stay here in a sense of “community” and people can stay on the ministry property as needed and directed by hospital social workers.

We are pictured here with Julián, Carolina, Esteban, and Abdías.  Carolina coordinates and carries out the work of the Casa de Acogida and they as a family live on the mission property in one of the houses.

• The other main work/ministry of Chile Mission is the development of a new Christian camp & retreat center in middle, rural Chile, roughly 5 1/2 hours south of Santiago.  The new camp will be aptly named “Campo Vivo”  (The Countryside Alive).  This work is led and coordinated by Abraham, who has lived in a small house on the large 90-acre tract of land with his wife Catalina and two children, Abril, and Facundo.  The land was purchased in October 2019 and is in its first stages of development into a Christian children’s & youth camp and retreat center.

These and our other ministries are described in more detail in the Ministries section of this website.