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RADIANT BEAMS
of
Santiago, Chile
May 1977
CIIURCH GROWTH
continues
to grow. At first we met in the house of one of the menibers. The church grew larger than the facilities and i t was then decided to rent a larger
meeting place. That, too, soon became too small and in December we rented a much larger building for our meetings. The members are very active in spreading the Gospel and very gener ous in their giving. At present two men from the congregation are enroll
ed in the Bible Institute.
VBS
worker were baptized during camp. The students used what they knew and what they x^ere learning
to evangelize the area around the campgrounds, A new congregation
Was started as a result
produced
churches
here in Chile.
who want
It vjill
of their
labors.
Please reserve yoiir set through Mrs. Warren Myers, 11095 Mt. Ver-
Utica, Ohio
^1-3080.
mAT A SUMMER
goes into
(just trying
rot in front
to coax
of it);
tho rabbit
rock hunts
(there are
semi-precious
stone-s
in the area but to them, all the stones that they could got into
in 197^
that the
in the
enroU-nent
of 39 leaders
first
of ICAL
would causo
a low e^irollment
of now students
in 1977
year
the
the
firot year
students of 19??
The 1977 first year enroll ment was 30. An excellent spirit
and desire to serve God x^as shown
not
Andy's
or
Gwen's),
clean
Chris Dewelt^ and Jeff Myers were aided in their tocnching by three
Chilean preachers.
The total number of partici pants including workers, students,
professors
proximately 100 for the three week period. The cabins were filled to capacity.
true. Now she gets to climb on the big, yellox-7 school bus each morn
The tentative plans for 1978 arc to have two 3-'week sessions
to bo able to accomodate tiae stu
ing with her "big brother" (why, he's in tho second gradet). Then
once at school her "big brother" takes her to class and goes to get her when classes are ovor. According,to Andy, "Ain't no Icid gonna' make eyes at my kid sister or I ' l l take c^ro of him.
. LEADERSHIP TRAINING Have you evor wondered how missionaries can train profession
of the Institute.
There were 20
In
Suintiago,
Chile,
Bible Institute
students
for the purpose of preparing pro fessional people for the ministry of the Gospel. Tliis school has been c"ntin""d;ng T-dth an expandingministry. University students,
tailors, businessmen and factory workers are aEiong those who have
been called into service and arc
and 38 first year students, inclu ding those studying outside of Santiago by cassette tapes.
The missionaries feel very
pleased
and the
At the present time Chris DeVfclt, Sd Holt and Jeff are direc
being traiiied
gram.
through
this pro
in
the Insti
establisliing' a
Bible Institute.-
They felt that a typical North American type Bible College was
not suitable for the Latin situa
tion.
First
of
all,
the Latin
lips arrived in J-tnuary and Jeff and Kathy Phillips (not related)
arrived in I'Lirch.
and demands
of
preparation
for
Their knowledge
aided them
Several
of
Spanish
has
in becoming active in
more fai.iilies will
bo completing their SparJ.sh stud ios in May viith plans to join the
Chilean ^rork directly.
SLIDES
A now slide sot about the Sumiaer Institute mil very soon bo
^d once again with the summer session at the campgrounds. It was impressive to see the growth
11095,
THANK YOU
about
your hard winter. Personally I believe that thoy wore all fish stories becauso we wore having temperaturos of 110 degrees in the
shade. But since most countries
We. want to thank everyone wJo continues to be our partner in tl: o Lord's work in Chile through their prayers, gifts, and encouragemort.
Our newsletters have boon few
pattern their life styles after those of the U3A, we are preparing
for a rough winter.
has kept us so busy. Learn what is happening by sending for our slides and a YBS kit which maybe used for many programs of the Church.
NOTE THS CHAEGS OF /iDDRESS;
car?^ for winter use. Hight now, the buildings have only the outer wooden shell. It gets pretty cool at night, The min project at the campgrounds for 1977 is to finish
the inside walls of the cabins.
We suj^o
Already
we
have
scheduled
are glad to have them back. The]*o surely is a difference In the work
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Santiago, Chile
Jiily 1977
FAi-iILY MEv;-AIIDY
VISION OF LSAD3RS
Andy is soven years old and in the sscondgrada. He jvist got his first semester grade carcl Last school year he had some
discipline problens so each grad ing period he failed "disci pline". In Chile,whona student gets a failing grade in any area the parents have to go got the grade card and talk to the pilncipal, Each grading period I got
to talk vri-th the director^ Ifot
zeal by themissionaiy or because the message is not effective but simply because the national lead ers nevor get a vision of a great church^ It is different
in Cliile.
"I
members
honestly
feel
that we
so this yeari
According to his tachor ho
is a whiz
the
in mth
(he rocoived
award for his
mathematics
to read
(in Spanish)
but it is
mthin two years," challenged a Chilean preacher in the opening address of a recent spiritual retreat held at the campgrounds on Iiay 7-B, This and similiar thinking by otlier leaders set the atmosphere for this timo of reflection, spiritual grox-rth and ch\irch gro'vrth planning.
Instead of the missioriaidos
tiding to make the Chileans think big, wo are sometimes the weight
around their necks
vre arei
because they
A GIAlff FELLOWSHIP
FAJOXY NS'fS-GWEN
through
the
three"s.
was really outstanding to par ticipate in this service T>jith the oiier300 Christians from 1^ con gregations in central Chile. Tears came to my eyes as I
looked over the crowd, listened
rible four's. She is in nursery school in pr^aration for kinder garten. Her sleeping liabits are
He
early to
the past. My thoughts included: A. There was one congrega"tdon of the Church of Christ in
rise. She is a bear at 6:30 am when she has to get ready for school. The bus picks them up at 7^15 1-ath classes starting at
3; 00 am.
That is
pretty
early
Santiago in January, 1972. As of tky 21, 197? ( there were nine congregations in Santiago. B. In January, 1972, there were approximately ten active, baptized members of the Church of Christ in Santiago, At the
time of this united service there
Hay was a bad month for the animal farm. First of all, the
babies. Lastly Chipper, the dog, ran away while we were gonei Luckily, four days later mommy
found her five blocks from home,
OPPOKTUl'JITIES FOR GROWTH
three times as large as the max imum capacity of our largest church building. (We held this service in a vacant lot.)
Bertrand Smith, veteran mis sionary, trembled as he told the
audience that he felt that his
David A. V/omack in Breaking; the Stained-glass Barrier dec lares : "V/e are commanded, to make
converts,
to
disciple
all na
dreams
in that service.
praised the work now being done through the "El Encuentro" Bible correspondence course and the
either
The next
united meeting is
"Spontaneous expansion is
the
having to turn our backs to new opportunities because our sched ules are filled. Personally I
wish that there were a "Ten Easy
Gospel
which
are being
or rented
on which to
themselves, I mean the expansion V7hich follows the irresistible attraction of the Christian Church for men who see its order ed life and are drawn to i t by desire to discover the secret of a life which thoy instinctively
desire to share."
quarters,
That
is what
is happening
right now,
be
responsible
of their
construction
buildings. Almost viithout ex ception the new congregations do not have the funds to pay from
$2000 to $4000
lot. Once
the lot
be bought
of time.
over a
longer period
ing of the lots for new congre gations VTould affect the giving of the church. They said, "No."
As a base of churches with build
ings was developed they thought the Chilean chtirches could help buy lots for no^-ily established groups. You can see that truly
she gives out tracts, tails her neighbors about Christ and en
rolls people in the SI Encuentro BibXe correspondence course. In terest is high, the questions are many and this is one way that she is preaching the Go^el, Recently one of the mer
chants said to her, "You should do the same at the market near
on his business or fleeing from persecution could preach Christ and a chiirch spring up as a re sult of his proaching."
Roland Allen talked about
it hap-
my homo. interest
His blessings which come through your prayers and gifts. V/ith the
cost of the work in Chile s t i l l
rising, it*s a miracle each month how He supplies our needs. Kany have sent for the film strip and tape wo have available. If you didn't use it for VBS per
or call
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RAD IAN T
BEAMS
of
^7
Santiago, Chile
Forwarding Agent: Mrs. Warren Myers 11095 Mt. VernonRd.,N.E. Utica, Ohio 43080
December 1977
TRAIKING INvSTITUTE Another semester is about to
be finished in the Leadership Training Institute. Once again iticiror students and leaders have profited from the classes offered. A couple of new classes were of fered, v:hich included: The vSermon
The
the lots
on
the
expensive. I had thought that thiTOUgh a united effort with mis sionary and Chilean money we could buy what was needed. A deal was
almost made vjith one seller but at the last moment he raised his
Although we are satisfied in many ways about the results of the training institute we are planning
to introduce several innovative new semester. Our
selling price
out.
so
we had to back
$5000
to buy
something adequate
Would
plan is to direct the teaching more on a one-on-one training prograinone missionary working with
the leaders on an individual ba
give toward this pro congregation is will it on a loan basis if cor^regation or indi
to give i t
PROPOSED TKEP
AI^^f AI GM
Ono
of
the
most difficult
for tliis
year on December ?
VJhat a
birthday present for Andy! This \jQek Andy is taking his final
exams to finish the second grade. The school is quite strict about
ery School. Of course she doesn't have any final exams but she vrould
like to so that she could get the attention tliat Andy gets. Even though her schooling is very easy, in recent weeks she has learned
and all
present,
the countries of Central and South Both children are anxious to finish the school year because that means that mthin a few days
trip.
Because we know
paid for from personal money, V/e are taking advantage of a tourist package to get a more eco
nomical rate on the tickets. The
December and roturn to Chile right after the first of the year. It would be a joy to see as many of
We invite you
Telephone #6lif-892-2768
Mailing address: 11095 I'it. Vernon Road NS
Monday, December 19
at 7 o'clock.
JOIN US IN A "V/ELCOMS HOlffi"
Utica,
Ohio
^30^0
SECOJID
FAITH PR0HISE3
Excitement
filled
the
air
one iu^ortant teaching that was lacking in many of the churches here is "giving". The people are used to sacrificing their time for
the Lord but since they are poor
Judy, the children and I went down on Friday after school was out and
returned Sunday after sei^ces, VJhat a weekt VJhat a congregationi On the final night of services,
there were two hundred in attend
giving. For that reason many of the congregations have had diffi culty in expanding because of lack of money. I have been working to remedy this problem by holding a type of f.nith promise rnlly in
different congregations. The re^ suits have been quite impressive.
The first faith promise was held in the Portugal church where
ance with representatives from the eight daughter congregations es tablished by the church during its two years of existance. Yes, I
said two years.
There
of about
Saturday night the mayor of San Carlos granted permission to hold a special service at the cen evangelistic service witli approx imately 300 in attendance, with
25. The promises per month totaled $200. This was a considerable
increase from what was previously
tral park.
being given. The money received is being saved for the bujrLng of
in
^
the
evangelistic
^ ^
held united services all day Nov. 1, a holiday in Chile. Our family and
a fevf other Christians from Santiago visited the meeting held in f_ Alto, near Vin.-> Kar. I was invited to preach during themormng ser^^ce
It was good
fellowship with them. God continues to bless the churches in that part of Chile as well as in the rest of this beautiful country.
JUDY'S CORNER
SIER INSTITUTE
"Aw, Mommy,
s make plaster of paris thingsl" Thus commented Gwsn one day not
long ago. "V/hen are you going to quit?" asks Andy. I guess that's
in SL Tabo, Chile.
Even though a
is of
We
one reason (among others) that I am excited about our trip to the States. I'm hoping I won't have to tnke my molds on the plane to
continue production.
be so rushed
The plaster of pans items are sold through the bookstore at the Eifusion Center plus a Cnilean Christian family is irorking on obtaining a permit for selling
at a special Christmas stand put up about two x-?oeks before Christmas, The plans for now are to use the money to purchase a lot for one of the
net'7 chiirches here in Santiago.
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