“KINGDOM JOY”
HEAVEN JOY:
I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent. –Luke 15:7
CHURCH JOY:
Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in theSpirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. –Phil. 2:1-2
KINGDOM JOY is the theme of what we will be sharing in 17 different Oklahoma Churches this month of October. How cool it is how CHURCH JOY feeds directly into HEAVEN JOY!! Going, sending, praying, teaching, baptizing, extending, inviting, & welcoming are all hallmarks of “Like-minded Jesus Churches”! Thank you all for your prayers and financial support that take us and Chile Mission forward in reaching Chilean children, youth, & adults and families with a real Jesus Savior and Lord—in Santiago and now with so much to do in developing the Mission’s rural property into a Christian children & youth camp and retreat center.
OUR SEPTEMBER KINGDOM JOY
The last two days of September our time in California was capped off with two celebrations:
- A combined 40th birthday celebration for both our daughter Jordan and her husband Rob. Most of our family was there and so was Jesus, giving testimony to his role in holding our family together and relationally close.
- On September 30th our oldest granddaughter Bella was baptized with us all present to share in her decision. Needless to say, we and heaven rejoiced together!
We are certain that on-going prayer has played a significant role in taking our family forward to this point and regardless of the family reality of each of you reading this, on-going prayer ALWAYS makes a difference!!
- The Chile team in Santiago was able to provide comfort and prayer in September to parents and adults in differing medical treatments and during recovery. Please pray with us for Carolina’s more organized efforts to make contact with even more area hospitals so that more families can make use of the Mission’s Casa de Acogida “Dulce Refugio”.
- In Chile on the camp property Catalina’s pregnancy is almost over, with their son Facundo due during the first days of October. Once again, we so appreciate your accompanying prayers in bringing her pregnancy to this point. Through them, we ALL join in their impending joy at Facundo’s arrival, as we look forward to sending you a photo of their new “four person” family.
We especially ask for your prayers as we prepare to participate in this year’s HI-PLAINS SCHOOL OF MISSIONS based near the panhandle of Oklahoma. It begins on Thursday, October 5th and ends on Friday, October 27th. We will be participating with 5 other missions in circulating between 17 different churches in Oklahoma and Texas to present the work of CHILE MISSION, as well as join two different churches each Sunday for worship on Sunday mornings and sharing in the evenings. Please pray for our “stamina” 🙂 , as each presentation is in a different town, so we’ll be traveling between them.
While we now spend more time in the States than in Chile, our time is still focused on raising the awareness and importance of Christian camps in Chile. The work in Chile is definitely God-sized! (This recent summer, for example, was spent at Round Lake Christian Camp in Ohio teaching about what Chile is all about.) What a blessing to encourage and broaden the going and sending of missionaries to different cultures, such as to Chile. This going and sending is just ONE MORE BUILDING BLOCK of “God at work” in Like-minded Jesus Churches. ALL churches & missions MUST stay the course, and your prayers and other support make a significant difference in the results!!
Meanwhile, we and Abraham & Family are all too glad to have the winter rainy season over and being able to use the sandy roadways to reach their home at the camp—to give them regular access to going and coming on the public road without flood waters to deal with or a 1-1/2 mile walk to their vehicle. We do have a prayer request for final needed repairs to his pick-up truck’s transmission. The truck represents their one mode of transportation and vehicle to get needed work done.
We are excited to report that one church, three individuals, and one family have responded so far in being interested in coming to Chile in the first months of 2024 (Chilean summer) to help with land clearing and construction on the Mission’s camp property. We are VERY grateful, as there is much to be done! If you are a supporting church or an individual we can also really use your help as well and invite you to contact us about the possibility of your making a trip to Chile as well. We so appreciate all help.
LOOKING FORWARD TO NOVEMBER….
Have YOU attended the ICOM annual mission’s conference of the Christian Churches in recent years? Please consider doing so this November and you will not regret it, with its many great workshops, speakers, and mission booths (such as ours!!). Teens even have their own focus and speakers. It will be held at the Convention Center in Oklahoma City, November 16-18. Hope to see you there.
Praising, praying, fasting to GOD, our SOURCE of Church Unity and transformed lives,
Chile Mission 