New beginnings

A new year is a wonderful opportunity to commit or recommit to new goals and challenges. As a family and as a team we are excited about this new year. We are trusting God and seeking Him for greater intimacy with Him, with each other and greater and more effective service for Him.

A key verse in my life has been Acts 13:36, "For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep..." David (in spite of his shortcomings) fulfilled God's purpose. He did what God wanted Him to do on this planet. May this be a year where we are increasingly committed to do what God wants us to do as long as we are alive until we part to be with Him.

Here are some of things we are hoping, praying, planning for this year,

We want to increase our prayer. As a team, as a family and me individually. We have planned some times for this. As Em Bounds stated, "He who is too busy to pray is to busy to lead a holy life." Ouch! This is a constant challenge in our day. May God grant us His grace and promptings to be people of PRAYER.

As a family we want to grow in how he shepherd our kids (devotionals, scripture memory, discipline, family routine, etc.) In our marriage we want to grow in intimacy, communication, conflict resolution, date nights, etc. As the Lord leads you pray for us.

Personally, I am looking forward to fulfilling goals such as reading more books that are more meaty (ie Edwards) and reviving, reviewing and relearning my Greek so that I can better study, obey and teach God's word.

As a ministry team I´d like us to grow in effective service. Here are some of the things we have in mind for the year:

-New BTCP - We want to be directly involved in a new Bible Training Center (meaning we teach through the whole BTCP mainly Kurt Grothe)

-All BTCP books printed - We want to finish printing the 200 copies per book (there are ten books) so that new centers can be started. This requires that we finish the revision. We are almost there. We also hope to visit all of the current BTCPs (about 7) for encouragement, support, etc.

-Discipleship - We want to focus even more on meeting with key individuals in our church who are the leaders and future leaders of it.

-IBLP (Instituto Biblico La Plata) - Similar to BTCP but for a different audience. BTCP is primarily desgined for current pastors. IBLP is designed primarily for young leaders who are in La Plata (many in college who have more education). They are either present leaders or future leaders. We want to promote it more in the city and recruit new students that we can train so they can be a blessing to their churches.

-Website - Our website in spanish is almost finished. We want to offer as many tools and as much help to pastors and leaders across the country. For example, many pastors have never heard a expository message in Spanish and in a Latin context. We will have the sermons that Nico and I have preached (most of them are expository) on the web so that they can be downloaded.

-Team - We hope to grow in our love towards each other and in accomplishing things together as a team. My desire and prayer is that each team member could make significant contributions to God's kingdom in a way that surpasses previous years.

-Church Plant - We look forward to see how God works as we have begun to be more involved in leading a small group of believers with no church towards a church plant in an area where no solid bible teaching churches exist and in a terrain that is very postmodern and postchristian. PRAY FOR US!

-Contact with DBC- If God permits we anticipate being at the missions conference this year in May. If we are able to make this trip we look forward to seeing many of you. Also we look forward to receiving several short term trips (construction and training).

We are so grateful for your involvement with us through prayer and giving!

Warmly,

Greg, Caro, Alaina and Wendy

Posted January 30, 2009 by Greg and Carolina.

 


Archives:

08-24-2010 The "one anothers" in Scripture
03-24-2010 D-day
12-21-2009 Merry Christmas
11-04-2009 Learning to Pastor
07-11-2009 Safety, Sickness and the Sovereignty of God
04-15-2009 A police officer's hospitality
01-30-2009 New beginnings
10-03-2008 Skype phone
10-02-2008 Visas, Shots and Protesters
09-04-2008 Travel and Sickness II (photos and update)
07-27-2008 Medical Mission Trip
07-02-2008 A missionary's confession
04-30-2008 Life in La Plata
02-22-2008 Returning Home
01-28-2008 Take to the World
12-22-2007 Merry Christmas!
12-05-2007 An update on Mike Terry (our pastor)
11-27-2007 Please pray for our pastor in Argentina
10-14-2007 WHAT´S A HOME SERVICE?
04-04-2007 TEAM MINISTRY
02-01-2007 Exaltation of The Cross
12-07-2006 What's a typical day look like?
08-30-2006 A burden for the interior of Argentina
05-24-2006 Training Leaders In Argentina
04-05-2006 A New Year of Ministry
01-11-2006 Coming to Texas
12-29-2005 Becoming Familiar with the Aiport
10-06-2005 BTCP graduation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Prayer Requests

04.15.2009 April prayer requests: Please pray: 1. For Christ to be the center and the passion that drives all that we do. 2. For all that is needed for us to go to the conference, for God to provide for the cost to travel to Denton, for Wendy and Caro's passport to arrive on time, for our ministry activities and responsibilities to be covered well in our absence. 3. For a future pastor for the Union church. We are asking God to give us someone from the church that is not one of the missionaries.

10.02.2008 Bolivia Trip and new family member!: Please pray: 1. For encouragement and diligence for the pastors who received the teacher training workshop that we conducted a few weeks ago in Bolivia. Pray that God would give them wisdom and grace to live in the midst of all the political turmoil that is going on right now. 2. For a smooth c-section for Caro. Tomorrow Wendy should be born around 3:30 pm (1:30 Texas time). Pray for peace, safety and health. Pray for our adjustment to this new stage as a family. 3. For God to use us deeply in the lives of key individuals and broadly in the church in our efforts in Christ to be bring about growth and change to the whole body of Centro Cristiano de La Union.

07.27.2008 Medical Mission Trip: Please pray for God's protection, blessing, divine enablement for our Chaco medical mission trip starting today, July 27th through August 3rd. You can read more about this trip in the update Medical Mission Trip.

04.30.2008 PLEASE PRAY: 1. For our family's health. Caro has been battling severe allergy attacks, headaches and flu. Alaina has been sick for several days waking up with fever many nights. 2. For the small group ministry of the church. I'm trying to help a key leader in the church (Leo) develop it in a way that is more effective. Right now there are a lack of leaders for the small groups 3. For the institute - that God would bring life change in the students and equip them for effective ministry. My students names are: Juani, Facu, Vinnie, Barbie, Cecia, Flor and Melisa.

11.27.2007 Please pray for our pastor in Argentina: Our pastor, Mike Terry of the church we serve with in Argentina has had serious chest pains and is now in intensive care. It is very likely that they will be doing surgery today. Pray for God´s intervention in the whole process, for peace for the family and for wisdom for us in determining how this affects our travel plans, when we return to Argentina, etc. Thank you! We will keep you posted! Warmly, Greg, Caro and Alaina

04.07.2007 PLEASE PRAY FOR : 1. Pray that we would have daily quality times with Him. Pray that this would be our greatest priority. 2. Pray for the new small group ministry of the church. That God would use this new structure and that He would show us how to invest our lives into the lives of the leaders. 3. Pray that as a team we would be able to learn how to best work together balancing each other's strengths and weaknesses. Pray that our love for one another would grow deeper and that we would with one voice glorify God. 4. Pray that God would continue to use us in reaching new people in City Bell (last night we had a wonderful time with a group of people from City Bell - some have recently come to faith). 5. Pray for George and Emily's transition to Argentina, for adjustment to culture and language. They've done great so far. That are many other prayer requests but five is probably enough for now. We so appreciate those of you who pray faithfully for us! We so appreciate those who pray for us at Missions Prayer. We treasure your prayers. Keep up the good work. Your prayers are not in vain.