The Flight
It’s long!10 hours! But it’s not a hard flight. It’s overnight. You take off around 10:30pm. You eat, have a soda and you can be sleeping by midnight. When you wake up you are only a few hours away from Argentina. If you are fortunate enough to have a window seat you will have a breathtaking view of the country as you land. You will see caramel colored rivers cutting through a patchwork blanket of green farmlands. Then you float down through pearly-white cotton candy clouds before gently landing in Buenos Aires. The 10 hour flight – over! 

The Drive
Once you are off the plane, it’s on a bus, van or car.  Leg two of the trip calls for a 4 hour drive. Two lane roads leaving the airport quickly turn into a busy five lane highway. Those lanes then narrow to three and eventually you down to two.

As you leave the city of Buenos Aires behind, businesses large and small appear on each side of the 2 lane highway. There are no skyscrapers to block your view of the crisp blue skies. Everything is flat. Sprinkled in among the green farmland you find an business or two. A small bodega along the highway selling fresh oranges, or a grill set up cooking fresh meat to be sold to a hungry traveler.

Dotting the landscape are cows and horses, grazing together. Cars pulled over as people stop to spend time at a favorite fishing hole. A moped fighting to keep up as it carries a man, woman and a small boy. The road does not twist or turn.

It’s straight, just like the New Jersey Turnpike. Finally you reach the outskirts of Rosario after the 4 hour drive.

You enter the city, if you don’t look carefully you’ll miss the concrete wall that hides some of the poorest people around. It’s only a stones throw from a McDonald and a local grocery store. If you don’t look closely you’ll miss the little boy waiting for a car to stop so he can wash your window for some change. And at the stoplight, another boy who looks to be about  4 years old juggling old dirty tennis balls in front of a car hoping you stop long enough to enjoy his show and that he too will be rewarded for his work. Those images are a blur as you continue to the center of Rosario. A beautiful and bustling city where there don’t seem to be any needs at all…unless you really look.

“Thou Shalt Be Saved, and your Household” (Acts 16:31)
We continue to see that scripture lived out in such an incredibly beautiful way. God continues to bless the family we told you about on the first day. A Team ministered to a man on the street, and within that same hour he was saved, his wife and children. It gets better. Today that team returned to the barrio and saw the four year old girl again, just walking along the street. Later as the team went door to door they went to a house, and a woman answered the door. The team was blown away because the woman had the same face as the man they had ministered to yesterday. It turns out it was the man’s sister.  She gets saved. Also in the house, the man’s mother, she gets saved. The whole family is actually visiting the house and the team says the man who was saved first was absolutely beaming.

Teams Being Stretched to the Max
God has done so much in Rosario and it’s just day two.  Tonight we had so many different places to visit that we had to send the staff to three different outreaches. 

One of the teams went to a nursing home and said that they have never been kissed so much in their lives!!  The people were so blessed by the team that came and visited them!  We were so happy to see the staff get a chance to get out and minister to the people because usually they are so busy with other responsibilities they never get out in the streets.

The teams were busy all day today in the barrios, when asking how everything went the reply is “where do I start!”  So many people were open to the gospel and got saved!!

Staff – water ministry
Today a couple of people in the staff were going out to get water for the outreach teams.  God had divine appointments even in that!!!  He opened doors for them to preach to some of the workers including the managers.

Tears of  Joy After Tears Of Pain
I’ve never seen such weeping before, God has truly touched the people in Seventh of September (name of barrio).  Day number two in the barrio and each team that goes out to different parts of the barrios continue to see people accept Christ, people in need of prayer, people weeping after just being hugged.  Today a pastor had his wife share with us what division came into the church a year ago and how they were betrayed and a spirit of seduction tried to come into his family.  Even through pain they were able to forgive and stand again.  As his wife spoke, the Pastor wept and wept and wept. The wife and daughter wept as well. The Pastor desired for us to pray not only then but continually. I praise God because we see walls just crumbling down. 

Be Faithful Even In the Little Things
I was reminded of what occurred in Nigeria how even when picking up garbage after the evangelistic rally was a blessing and a testimony to the people of Jesus.  Yesterday the children’s ministry came and after they left candy was given to the children.  The children left all the candy wrappers on the field.  The Lord spoke to me quickly and said pick up the garbage. So as I started the rest of  the team joined in. I noticed a shocked look by some of the local members at what were doing.  What blessed me was that after a while some of the young little boys after watching us…pitched in and helped out. How important it is that no matter what you do whether big or small…do all to show the love of God…humble yourself and do as Jesus would do.

PRAYER REQUESTS: 

Please pray for the teams that God gives them strength and rest.  They have been so busy!!!  Pray for strength and the leading of the Holy Spirit.

The transit strike has been pushed back to Thursday and Friday.  We are happy that they are not having it Monday and Tuesday which would affect the Pastor’s Conference, but now they are saying they will strike on Thursday and Friday which would stop many people from being able to get to the evangelistic rally.  We are trusting God for a miracle.