A New Ministry Opportunity

Dear everybody,

Last Sunday was a special day for us. After attending a regular morning service at our church in Conaripe, and eating a quick lunch, we packed ourselves in a van and headed into the mountains.


Dan was asked at the latest district meeting to help with the preaching and teaching in the UCB Church of Liquine and our new Conaripe church family decided to go with us for the first Sunday up there.


The church in Liquine was started by Gospel Mission of South America missionaries 50 years ago, but just recently has found itself without a pastor. Dan and I will be traveling up at least twice a month to go and minister to the congregation.

The trip was an interesting one! Leaving Conaripe, it's over an hour long drive on gravel roads, going straight up and down switch backs and curves. We saw breathtaking rivers, gorges and valleys surrounded by lush vegetation and towering snowcapped mountains.

I know it's small!!! On the top left is where we live in Lican Ray, then to the right in the middle is where the Conaripe church is located. Finally on the bottom right, close to the Argentine border is the location of the Liquine Church.

We arrived at the church in time for the service... our first stop? the wood stove. We were pretty frozen when we got there. We enjoyed the wonderful time of worship with guitares and accordion accompanying the singing.


Then Dan got up to share his salvation testimony and message from God's Word. It was neat for us and for the few that accompanied us from the Conaripe church, to see the thirst the Liquine people had for sound Bible teaching. They were on the edge of their seats and the message went long! Many of the people had walked 2 to 3 miles to be at the service and we were having record low temperatures and rain that night.

We would appreciate your prayers for the Liquine church.

We are praying that God would also touch the heart of a young man or couple and call them to this needy ministry of visiting and pastoring the many country churches still without fulltime pastors.

Liz