Blessings to everybody from Chile, where I'm freezing my po-po. No, really, I'm sitting on a wooden chair in a house where I can see my breath, and I think my rear end is freezing. Last week, Santiago, which statistically has the same climate as Los Angeles, ¡hah!, had snow on two days. We didn't get it at our end of town, but it was really coming down in the upper part of the city.
But still in all it's great to be here working to advance Colegio Cristiano Conosur, our future Christian school of excellence for low-income Chilean families. With the help of our architect's firm, we are learning all the tasks we will have to do in order to get building underway - a list three solid pages long (so far).
It is nervous time, because we are moving forward as if the funds were all there to build. We have counted the cost and depend on God to provide the funds, taking seriously "the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were." It is, of course, God's call, but we must operate as if He had already done the work, which we are watching unfold.
We had the first-ever meeting of future parents for the school last Saturday, with a turnout of about 20. We're learning the best ways to get people out, confident that the level of interest is very high. The response to our presentation of the school was very positive. We now have a big sign out in front of the property with the school and church advertised (pix below). Please pray for the next meeting on Saturday, August 27.
The new church on the school property is prospering very well (pix below). Averaging around 24 adults, the church is already supporting several of its own projects, like new seating. Also they have offered to help financially to restart the swimming pool as an evangelistic tool and baptistry. On Sunday I met a member who is a crack landscaper, who just rattled on about the things we can do a low cost (!) to beautify the grounds. It was fun to have someone else thinking about strategies!!!
Enjoy the fotos. Imagine the beautiful buildings that are to come on the property. Pray for God to "throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you [and the school] will not have room enough for it." Please consider whether you have any kind of access to donors who might fall in love with the school project. We have two families who are planning to go to Chile with us in December. The more the merrier!
But still in all it's great to be here working to advance Colegio Cristiano Conosur, our future Christian school of excellence for low-income Chilean families. With the help of our architect's firm, we are learning all the tasks we will have to do in order to get building underway - a list three solid pages long (so far).
It is nervous time, because we are moving forward as if the funds were all there to build. We have counted the cost and depend on God to provide the funds, taking seriously "the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were." It is, of course, God's call, but we must operate as if He had already done the work, which we are watching unfold.
We had the first-ever meeting of future parents for the school last Saturday, with a turnout of about 20. We're learning the best ways to get people out, confident that the level of interest is very high. The response to our presentation of the school was very positive. We now have a big sign out in front of the property with the school and church advertised (pix below). Please pray for the next meeting on Saturday, August 27.
The new church on the school property is prospering very well (pix below). Averaging around 24 adults, the church is already supporting several of its own projects, like new seating. Also they have offered to help financially to restart the swimming pool as an evangelistic tool and baptistry. On Sunday I met a member who is a crack landscaper, who just rattled on about the things we can do a low cost (!) to beautify the grounds. It was fun to have someone else thinking about strategies!!!
Enjoy the fotos. Imagine the beautiful buildings that are to come on the property. Pray for God to "throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you [and the school] will not have room enough for it." Please consider whether you have any kind of access to donors who might fall in love with the school project. We have two families who are planning to go to Chile with us in December. The more the merrier!
Love in Christ,
Jim and Cheryl
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