Word of Life Argentina
I'm sending you off to open their eyes so they can see the difference between dark and light, and choose light.



"I'm sending you off to open their eyes so they can see the difference between dark and light, and choose light, see the difference between Satan and God, and choose God. I'm sending you off to present my offer of sins forgiven, and a place in the family, inviting them into the company of those who begin real living by believing in me." Acts 26:18









Saturday, May 8, 2010

Wow. Sorry that its been so long since we last updated you!
Heres a little update on what we've been doing:

1. Villa 31
As most of you know we were able to help with a Bible Club in a very dangerous ghetto of Buenos Aires!
It was an incredible time. We joined up with a church in the city who is leading this club every week. Our job was to bring a program that would reach out to the ghetto and give us chances to share the Gospel! We went with a team of 18 from Word of Life. The first thing we did was split up in groups and just walk through the ghetto and invite any kids we saw to a special program.
It's really hard to describe the things we saw...
First of all the ghetto is like a secret village in the middle of a fairly wealthy part of Buenos Aires.
There are just narrow passage ways every where you look. The houses are just shacks stacked on top of eachother. We would see up to 4 or 5 shacks bulit on top of the other. There were kids running everywhere, dogs running everywhere, both up on the roofs. We saw a little baby of no more than 2 years, walking through the street all alone. No one was with him. Anyone could have taken him. Drunks at 10 in the morning. Basically the best way to describe it was Dark and Dirty.

We started off with a program for children. Over 140 kids came. We had lots of fun games, which were really hard to control with so many kids, haha. But they had a blast!! And afterwards we split the kids up into age groups, and took the opportunity to share the Gospel with them. We were also able to share the gospel with some parents and realitives of the kids that came to watch! Praise God!

Then in the evening, we had a Bible Club for teenagers. There were 25 Teens that came, and Gabe was able to preach that night, and challenge them about identifying themselves with Christ. It is a very hard place to be a christian, and these kids, who are saved, need  alot of discipleship and encouragement! We had such a wonderful time and we PRAISE GOD for what HE is doing in this Ghetto!

2. Discipleship
Gabe has 3 guys from the Bible Institute that he has started meeting with and mentoring! And I, Lyndee, have one girl from Panama! We are so excited to have this opportunity to meet with them every week and help them grow through out this year! There is a woman in town, who has asked me to start having a Bible Study with her every week. This past monday was our first meeting, and it was incredible! She has such a hunger to learn and is really excited to have someone help her study and learn more of Gods Word! We are continuing to visit our special neighborhood, Esperanza, and seeing how we can meet the needs of our friends in this community. The other day we went and our 14 year old friend, had not eaten that whole day. They literally had no food in the house, and no money to buy anything. We praise God that He is allowing us to minister to these families, but please pray. There is a lot of darkness in some of these families, and Satan has a very strong hold on their lives.

3. Translating
This past week a group of students from Word of Life New York, came down on a missions trip
We were so blessed to be able to join them in their ministry outings and help tranlaste! We went with them to evangelize in our own town here, and we were able to go with them to help a church planting ministry that has started churches in some very poor and rough neighborhoods. We went with them to two different neighborhoods and were able to do some evangelism, and share the gospel through a drama and singing program. Over 23 people came to know the Lord this past week through the ministry of these students! Praise the Lord for using His children despite language barriers!

This week and every week, we meet so many people who are deeply deeply confused about the Gospel.
Satan has blinded so many eyes here in South America. With all of their idols, all of their Saints... they are missing out on the Power of Jesus Christ, and they cant even see it. Our hearts were breaking, as we meet so many people who were too busy to stop and listen, so many people who wont even consider that Virgen Mary has no power to save. So many people trying to work their way to heaven. So many people lost.
This verse kept coming to mind.                 
       ""You are my witnesses," declares the LORD, 
 "and my servant whom I have chosen, 
       so that you may know and believe me 
       and understand that I am he. 
       Before me no god was formed, 
       nor will there be one after me.
I, even I, am the LORD, 
       and apart from me there is no savior. Isaiah 43:10,11

Amen. and Amen.
Well that is about it for now, We have been really busy these past weeks, and we are just LOVING all the work that God is doing down here! Thanks for all of your prayers!

1 comment:

  1. Praise the Lord for your compassion and energy to do Your Father's work. I pray for you daily and love you so much.
    Love, Yo Momma

    ReplyDelete

Followers