“TRUE LIBERTY IN JESUS, OUR WAY, TRUTH, AND LIFE”
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. –John 14:6
Boy what a good verse for the nations today, including the United States, as we celebrate our independence as a country—ONE NATION UNDER GOD!! We also have several things to celebrate and pray for this month as Chile Mission, but let’s not stop praying for our U.S. government leaders. 1 Timothy 2:1-6 is a GREAT reference for that.
As mentioned in last month’s letter, we are writing you from Round Lake Christian Camp, where we’re having an incredibly-rewarding time interacting with grade-schoolers thru high-schoolers. Sharing videos and interesting facts & information about Chile, we are planting seeds of being him and extending him world-wide. Below is a “selfie” of all of us after we told the kids that they had all magically graduated from high school and now needed to prepare to be missionaries in Chile. They were very attentive and seemed surprised at all that does go into preparations for missionary service.
Also pictured are the baptisms of roughly 30 of those same kids!! TYL!! As different groups of children rotate weekly through the camp, we will be here through August 5th. Thank you for praying for the impact of our message and the teaching of others on each and every child. Once CAMPO VIVO is ready to receive children and youth in Chile, we and Abraham & staff will be just as committed and excited to introduce each Chilean young person to a Creator, Lord & Savior Jesus!
We have to remind ourselves visiting developed camps such as Round Lake and other similar, large Christian camps in the U.S. addressing children in spacious buildings and surroundings that these camps ALSO had their own beginning vision years ago! YES we are in stage 1 in the transformation of the land surrounding what will be known as CAMPO VIVO, along with all the construction still to come, but the vision is the same in introducing ALL that come there to our Creator, Lord & Savior Jesus! THANK YOU for being KEY PRAYER SUPPORT patners of Chile Mission!! It’s daunting to find ourselves in stage 1 of transforming land and constructing needed buildings on our camp property in Chile and all that this immense project entails, but we are certain that God will get it done!
Speaking of CAMPO VIVO, we have much to share and pray for:
>This year’s rains We were surprised to see this year’s heavy rains in middle and southern Chile mentioned on David Muir’s World News Tonight program recently. In speaking with Abraham, he confirms those heavy rains in the area by our camp property, even to the extent that the public access road by us and by our closest neighbors is totally flooded to a depth of almost 4 feet, preventing any vehicle to enter or leave. They need to walk a long way on higher ground just to retrieve and use the pick-up truck.
The winter rains (June to August) normally do flood our local roads, but this year is worse. Abraham and neighbors met last year with the mayor of Quillón, the town responsible for upkeep of our section of the public access road and heavy equipment was sent out, but until certain areas of the road are completely redone and raised, no other solution will work. Please pray for a lowering of the present level of water on the road to allow Abraham’s 4X4 pickup to pass through and also that all parties will be able to work together to finally come to a workable, permanent solution. Thank you!
Here is the link to view Abraham’s and Catalina’s latest video of CAMPO VIVO. It’s really good!! https://youtu.be/w1Ltw7IbAqo
>>The excavator and pickup truck Abraham is looking for the right person to operate and help maintain our excavator. In addition, a repair to the 4X4 transmission assembly of the pickup is needed. While both of these needs will be met, we appreciate your prayers for the ongoing good use of our equipment. Thank you!
>Catalina’s pregnancy Catalina’s pregnancy is going well, with her due date still set for the end of October. She is having a boy and his name is Facundo. It is a name more popular in Argentina than in Chile and it refers to someone elequent in speak or that speaks alot. Thanks for your continuing prayers.
>>Come help In the middle of the current rains we are blessed to receive a group of four young men who are spending a week to help at our camp property. Their program is called Edge and it is part of the same Mennonite ministry based in Columbia that sent six young women to help Chile Mission earlier this year. We welcome their help and are praying for their experience and for their travels. During their week with Abraham they were able to fix a water pump and also replcace the 20 plates that help make up the tractor tread that moves the excavator. Many thanks guys!!
>>We’d like to use this opportunity to AGAIN INVITE church and mission groups and individuals to contact us about coming to Chile to help! Perhaps another time of the year would work better for you, but round-trip airfares are typically below $700.00. We’re excited that one friend is coming to help for just over two weeks this August, and as a reminder, we are ALWAYS looking for a couple or family to come stay and help Abraham & Catalina for a period of time, be it for weeks, a couple months, or longer as teammates of Chile Mission! Of course, even basic Spanish will be important, but “on sight survival-language training” is provided! 🙂 🙂
IN SANTIAGO, our prayer needs go on:
>>We are sorry to report that Baby Matías (mentioned in our May letter who contracted a virus known as CMV (Cytomegalovirus) immediately after birth eight months ago) died this evening, July 1st. We pray for God’s comfort and presence for his parents, Jordan & Laura, in this very difficult turn of events!
>>When we return to Chile for just over two weeks in August, we and our other Foundation board members should be able to sign the legal documents needed to make immediate changes in our Foundation’s statutes and ready it to move forward from there. Both Abraham and Julián are due to come on to the Board of Directors. We continue to pray for these important legal steps.
>>Meanwhile, Carolina continues to make contacts with hospitals in making known the services we offer via Chile Mission’s Casa de Acogida. She and Julián have also come up with a new name for the Santiago mission site: “Dulce Refugio” (Sweet Refuge). It’s easy to remember and well-describes the ministry carried out on the mission site.
>>We have a BIG praise to share in that three of the nine children who lived years ago in our home for children on our Santiago ministry site with Chilean Christian house parents have now contacted Janine this year to thank her for teaching them important life lessons, which they now as adults appreciate very much. Our home residence for children was closed in October of 2013 due to the lies of one of these three, but now ten years later all three are grateful adults, and Carla also asked for forgiveness for her lies. Thank you Lord for ALWAYS working, and we will continue to try to get in touch with the others.
In the U.S. thank you for praying with us for Jayme’s recovery from ACL surgery in May. He’s well on the road to full recovery, which should take another 3 or more months.
Praising, praying, fasting, and celebrating True “Way, Truth, & Life” liberty in Jesus,
Chile Mission 