Our Ministry Passion

Yesterday, I wrote about the passion we have to help build up the existing churches here in NW Argentina including in regard to their giving to foreign missions and supporting their own Argentine Missionaries.

 Today I thought I would share about our Passion for NW Argentina
- in a nutshell.

NW Argentina, especially the Province of Jujuy is one the most unreached parts of the entire country and one of the most unreached parts of all of Latin America.  Statistics say that any people group who are less then 2% Christian are still considered an Unreached People Group.
That is NW Argentina.  The stat's here put us at less than 1% evangelical Christian.
Here are our Jujuy Stats & our A/G numbers -

The Province of Jujuy has 700,000 + people and is steadily growing everywhere you look.
The capital city of San Salvador de Jujuy has a population of 300,000 + people and is growing greatly
- There are only 2 A/G churches for all of the capital - 31 neighborhoods (barrios) with +/- 10,000 people each & we still have 29 without a single A/G church.
- There are only 4 A/G churches for the entire province.
This leaves about 100 cities, towns, & communities with no A/G church whatsoever.

Our passion is to see at least 1 A/G church (many more if possible and where applicable) planted in every neighborhood of the capital city, and in every city, town & community in the entire province.

It is a massive dream.  : )
We are prepared to pay the price for as many years as necessary to see it come about. 
We know that it can not be done all by ourselves.  It will require a massive number of people to make it a reality.


Therefore, we are praying hard every day for...
1. God to send more missionaries here - they can come from ANY country outside of Argentina, it does not matter to us, just that there are more workers here.
2. God to send church planters from within Argentina to Jujuy - right now we know of no one, but we are praying for God to change that in a massive way
3. God to raise up leaders from within Jujuy to branch out and plant daughter churches - this is a long slow process, but it must be done to prepare solid leaders.  Only leaders who are solid can produce churches that are stable.

- So far, we have met 1 new missionary to the region (from Columbia).  We rejoice over this & are praying for a great many more.
- We know of 1 couple who is away from Jujuy at a Bible College preparing for future ministry & don't know if they will be coming back - but we're praying they will.  : )  - Also, heard a rumor of a pastor's son who has a burden to plant a church in a city in Jujuy; still trying to verify the report.
- And we finally know a few couples who have a burden to plant daughter churches here in Jujuy - yeah!!!  Now we are working on not only God calling more, but how to effectively train them and help them prepare.
It is a work in its beginning stages. 

Please pray for Jujuy!
It is a terribly unreached area.
It is home to great spiritual warfare - a graveyard for pastors and church plants.
(Example - the church we are a part of went through 16 pastors in a period of only 19 years!) 

Thank you for your partnership with us.
God bless you and do awesome things in your life for the sacrifices you make for the people here -

Paz, poder, y uncion de Espiritu Santo -