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Land of Volcanos
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Did you know Chile has the largest number of "historically active" volcanoes? Since it sits right on the Pacific Ring of Fire, Chile's volcanic chain is 2nd only to Indonesia. With about 2000 volcanoes, just 123 are active. Recently Liisa visited one of these - Volcano Villarica (she took the picture above, by the way). By day there's a pillar of smoke trailing out of the cone. By night, a reddish glow lights the conical summit at 9341 ft. Yet hikers regularly scale its steep slopes and there is even a ski area that operates amongst the rumblings!
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Prayers & Praise
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* Pray for Delfina, a 97 year old member of our congregation who just had hip surgery.
* Praise God for Harold and Jocelin as they will be confirmed this month and for the 5 others who continue to study the catechism.
* Pray for Jim's dad, Dennis, as he undergoes treatment for prostate cancer.
* Praise the Lord for his protection of our home and our children in Florida during the recent hurricane Matthew.
* Thank God for the progress made on our school for handicapped youth and that the right people, permissions and plans are made as we go forward.
* We thank the Lord for the constant flow of visitors we have to our services! Pray that their hearts will be moved by the Gospel.
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Pray for our youth as they prepare to participate in the International Latinamerican Lutheran Youth Encounter in Brazil in honor of the 500th
anniversary of the Reformation.
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Columbus Day in the States is best know as being a day off from school. I suppose the idea is to celebrate (or at least recognize) Columbus' "discovery" of America. Of course, America had long since been discovered by its native inhabitants - indigenous residents of all sorts.
Throughout Latin America, October 12 is not known as Columbus Day, but as "Dia de la Raza" - i.e., ethnic day. More and more, though, the "Dia de la Raza" terminology is being replaced by another title for October 12: "Encuentro entre Dos Mundos" / The Meeting of Two Worlds.
Personally, I love calling it The Meeting of Two Worlds. After all, that's what happened. And that's what's still happening when missionaries go to another country! Two worlds meet (hopefully, they don't collide!). Our world of USA culture and life-ways has to give way as we step into the Chilean world.
But there is yet another "world" to meet - the world of faith in Christ. Ever wonder why Christians and non-Christians don't seem to be able to understand one another very easily? It's because we are living in two worlds. Every time we interact with those who do not yet know Jesus, every time we share our faith, there is a Meeting of Two Worlds. And that sums up our job, you and me: to introduce others to the New World of faith in Christ!
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100 Years and still going strong!
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Jim and Liisa with LHM-Chile director Marianela Bravo, LHM International director Douglas Rutt, and co-worker Cristian Rautenberg. |
The Lutheran Hour INTERNATIONAL
is celebrating 100 years of ministry! Jim has been asked to lead a workshop at the special anniversary event in St. Louis this month. Pray for him as he shares from many years of experience of doing mission work with the Lutheran Hour, and inspires others to meet the challenges of spreading the Gospel in urban areas around the world.
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A God-given opportunity! An update.
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Last month, we introduced you to an opportunity that came up rather suddenly, to buy a house almost next door to our church property.
Click here
for a full description and update on the project.
Here is the latest news:
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New home for Lutheran Hour Ministries (CPTLN)
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The Lutheran Hour Chile
has a new home in Santiago! Lutheran Hour - Chile director, Marianela Bravo, re-located the CPTLN (Christ For All the Nations) office to their new home last week, which is just two doors down from our ministry center in "Los Quillayes". Already contacts are stopping by this new place of outreach. We praise the Lord for this opportunity for His church to grow. We are still looking for financial support to put towards the purchase of this new property. Click here to see how you can help!
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Here am I, Send Me!
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Volunteer groups are always a special blessing! Our next group is from St. Louis and will be spending 9 days this month teaching English at our two Lutheran Schools in the Valparaiso area and doing evangelistic outreach in Santiago. This is the third time this group has come! Pray for them as they share why their faith is important to them by word and action across language and cultural barriers! Pray for those who will be touched by their service.
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We have been working VERY hard in ministry, which means that we have had less time to be communicating with YOU, our ministry partners! It does show up, in that contributions have tapered down some in the past several weeks. We praise God for each of you,
our "mission partners".
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Mail a check to:
Global Lutheran Outreach
6709 Ficus Dr.
Miramar, FL
(Put "Tino" on the memo line of the check.)
Projects in need of support (click to view)
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members pitch in with time and talents. The community is very excited about this NEEDED "house of mercy" which will impact many lives in the Santiago area. 
