Here are 10 new things about ministry in ARGENTINA for 2012?

#1 Greg and Caro will be returning to the USA for 6 months to a year in order to raise support. (they will be leaving around mid February).

#2 The Grothe's will be moving into Greg and Caro's house while they are gone! (The move will be in about 3 weeks)

#3 Kurt will be pastoring our church plant and leading the BTCP ministry in Argentina in Greg's absence.

#4 Kurt will begin meeting twice a month with a group of pastors in the area for support and accountability. We call this "Consejo Pastoral."

#5 Once a month Kurt will meet with some key BTCP leaders for additional ministry support and to continue integrating them into this strategic ministry at a national level.

#6 Our church plant continues to grow in number and more people are involved in leadership than ever. A Wednesday leadership meeting is already set up in order to administer operational aspects of the church. (possibly our future deacons!)

#7 Although Kurt will be busy doing many things over the year... There are 3 major areas that he will focus on in our church plant for the upcoming year: 1) Regular pastoral visitation to all the members, 2) Faithfully preach God's Word every week, 3) Disciple the men of our church

#8 We are walking into ministry for 2012 having planned for the year better than ever.

#9 The Grothe family will begin home school for the first time (Beginning in March)

#10 Before the Travis Family returns to Argentina, The Grothe's will need to find a new rent home. (this is not as easy as it sounds in the city we live in!)

There is 1 thing , in the midst of lots of change, that will remain the same for ministry in ARGENTINA for 2012?

CHRIST IS IN CONTROL

2 Corinthians 5:14-15

"For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf."

It would be impossible to express our gratitude to all of you for your prayers and your financial support. God is using you in order to keep us here ministering to this country. THANK YOU for your faithfulness to HIM!

We would like to invite you to read through all "10 bits of news for 2012" listed above, and pray for them. Your prayers are a KEY part of our ministry here!

Love to all of you from Argentina,

Kurt, Lore, Josías and Lila

I just wanted to write briefly to let everyone know how you might be able to join our team and church in prayer.

The past month has been a particularly challenging one for our church and especially for our team.

One of the challenges has stemmed from a member of our church. To share with you in very general terms, she has strayed from her relationship with the Lord and our church, (we're not sure if she ever really did know Him), and has now sought to persuade members of the community to think negatively about our church and our faith in Jesus.

We believe that this is spiritual warfare and we would like to invite you to live out Ephesians chapter 6 with us as we put on the "Armor of God."

In addition, The Travis family (our team members) have all been very sick, we have a dear friend visiting us currently from the USA that has also gotten very sick, and in the midst of it all we are currently hosting a short term trip.

We invite you to pray with us (maybe as you read this e-mail) for:

-The Travis Families (and our dear friend's) health

-Unity and steadfastness in our church

-Dependence on the Lord and effectiveness for the short term team visiting us

-The Grothe family to not get sick as well

-Repentance or surrender to Jesus as Savior in the heart of the member of our church who has now strayed.

-Peace, renewal, strength and faithfulness for both the Travis and Grothe family in order to continue leading our church and our families in a sweet relationship with our Savior.

We love you all and thank you so much for faithfully joining our ministry in Argentina through your support and prayer.

In His Grip,

Does the GRACE of God bring PEACE to your life? The apostle Paul begins many of his letters in this way. As we approach Easter, we reflect on the grace that has been freely given to us. We deserve eternal punishment for our sin (Romans 6:23). But He has freely poured out His GRACE on us, by taking our punishment upon Himself. God became a man in Jesus, and He died and rose again for you!

We pray that this Grace and Peace of God would be known in the community where we are serving here in City Bell, Argentina. We are confident that God will continue to use "La Iglesia Bíblica de City Bell" as a tool to make Himself known.

Last week we celebrated our One Year Anniversary as a church. We invite you to watch the video (on You Tube) that we showed the congregation. For many of us it brought tears to our eyes to see how God has been uniting our church family over the past year, and how He edifies His Church.

Our prayer is that He would continue to do so...

YOU TUBE VIDEO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDTmCALVOdE

Below are 3 ways you can be praying for us:

1) Marriage and Family. We have been doing family devotional times at the dinner table every night. Pray that we would be daily strengthened and renewed by His Word.

2) Pray for protection for Josías and his school. We have decided to take him to a school nearby that seems to be the best option (out of the options available). The part we don't like is that he is there 7 hours a day. Pray that God might open doors for us to share Jesus with other families as we become friends.

3) Spiritual Warfare. The reality is that there is an enemy who desires to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:10). We have seen some strange things happen since arriving in Argentina that we feel are spiritual in nature (Ephesians 6:12-20). Example: Just one hour before beginning our small group last week Lila fell so hard on the floor that we had to take her immediately to the emergency room to test for a possible fracture. (She's okay now! No fracture!). Pray with us for the full Armor of God!

Send us an e-mail to let us know how we can be praying for you too!

Love to you all (and Happy Easter!),

Kurt, Lore, Josías and Lila

A Photo of our 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY at the "Iglesia Bíblica de City Bell"