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Ministries & Testimonies

to Guide Your Giving

a special edition of

window on South America

official publication of South America Mission www.southamericamission.org

Good News of god’s Great work in The Beni, Bolivia

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e met Maria Eugenia in an isolated community

called San Lorenzo along the Mamoré River that separates Bolivia’s northern border from Brazil. Her father is the community health worker and after helping us with our clinic he quietly asked if we could see his daughter. Of course we obliged, but my heart sank as he told of the progressive paralysis of her legs for no apparent reason. He had scraped together money to take her to La Paz—a several day trip—where he was told nothing could be done for her. Back in San Lorenzo, they had little hope.

After examining her, we suspected a vascular tumor was affecting her spine, but could not truly make diagnosis under those conditions. We told her father if he would get her to Santa Cruz we would get a diagnosis, although we could not promise a cure.

We told her father if he would get her to Santa Cruz we would get a diagnosis, although we could not promise a cure.

One year later, SAM missionary Dr. Placido Mercado received a phone call. It was Maria Eugenia’s father. He had brought his daughter to Santa Cruz and was hoping we would keep our promise. To get to Santa Cruz from San Lorenzo, it takes days navigating the rivers in the Amazon Basin by boat and then the well-worn Bolivian highways by bus.

We kept our promise. The diagnosis was a vascular malformation applying pressure to her spine. We spoke with surgeons in Bolivia and Brazil. No one had the experience necessary to operate. We started calling people in North America and finally Baptist Hospital in Miami responded. Maria Eugenia, accompanied by her mother and SAM missionary Bev Smith, left for the US. The specialized surgeons expressed little hope of improvement, but spoke of the danger of death without surgery because of the progressive ascending paralysis. The surgeons did their work; we are so grateful they were willing to try. Amazingly, after surgery, Maria Eugenia was able to take her first steps in over three years. She continues physical therapy and regains the strength in her legs each day.

—recounted by Dr. Toni Mercado, SAM Missionary in Bolivia

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A note from Kirk ogden

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his special edition of Window on South America highlights many of the key ministries of South America Mission. These ministries exemplify the core strategies we

employ to achieve the vision God has given us for South America: Multiplied, dynamic churches transforming communities by embodying the Kingdom of God. As you read, envision the local expressions of the church in South America growing and giving glory to God through the work to which He has called us.

We are excited to share with you on these pages good news of God at work through SAM. As we highlight ministries and share testimonies from our missionaries, we also make you aware of specific ways that you can apply your financial resources towards accomplishing God’s global purposes in partnership with SAM. Each gift will be applied directly to the work God has begun in South America.

If you would like to honor a friend, family member or organization by making a donation to these ministries for any special occasion throughout the year, please let us know how we can help you announce your donation as a gift. We can make a phone call on your behalf, or we can supply you with a card and envelope to make your announcement.

We hope this publication will serve as a useful tool for you, guiding you to creative, alter-

native ways for giving gifts that can make an eternal impact. Also, we value your prayers.

We encourage you to keep this publication in a convenient drawer or on your bookshelf so you can refer to it regularly to pray for the ministries highlighted.

Thank you for your prayers and generosity. We trust that the news of God’s work through SAM will be a blessing to you.

Yours in Christ,

Kirk Ogden Executive Director

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Ministries and Testimonies to guide your giving

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South america mission—vision-driven

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bolivia—indigenous and rural medical outreach

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all fields—church leadership development

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peru—heartbeats of hope crisis pregnancy

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all fields—SAM 2020

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brazil—redemptive ministry in dois unidos

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brazil—CONPLEI 2012

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colombia—la esperanza scholarships & supplies

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bolivia—english village language acquisition

10 all fields—children’s ministry 11 colombia—wayuu ministry in the guajira desert 12 peru and paraguay—theological education Plus: Look for Good News of God’s Great Work: Testimonies from the Beni, Bolivia; Dois Unidos, Brazil; and SAMAIR Peru.

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south america mission—vision-driven

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Make Mission Possible in South America

1. SAM Vision Fund suggested gift

$100 helps us Mobilize, Lead and Equip.

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e praise God for the century of faithful service He has given to South America Mission. We celebrate God’s past faithfulness and joyfully commit to fulfilling His vision for us: Multiplied dynamic churches spread across South America transforming communities by embodying the Kingdom of God. Everything we do is done towards this end.

At our core is a group of 100 missionaries making significant sacrifices to see the church of Jesus Christ grow as lives are transformed in South America. Our partners, both individuals and churches demonstrating their concern for God’s global purposes, make it possible for us to Mobilize, Lead and Equip a very dedicated team serving a continent away.

Doing more life-transforming work in South America is our aim. We can only accomplish this in partnership with you. Every prayer you offer makes a difference. Every encouraging word. Every financial gift. They enable us to engage more candidates for missionary service, to lead a vision-driven mission onward and upward, and to equip missionaries to be effective as God’s redemptive agents on earth.

“For the vision is yet for the appointed time…Though it tarries, wait for it; It will certainly come, it will not delay.” Habakkuk 2:3 www.southamericamission.org/givingguide

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bolivia—Indigenous and Rural Medical Outreach

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Help Provide Medical and Dental Care to the Indigenous and Rural Poor.

2. Indigenous and Rural Medical Outreach sustaining gift

$50,000 provides a new boat to reach more people.

suggested gift

$1,000 sustains 10 village clinics serving 500 patients.

suggested gift

$100 provides medicine for one village clinic.

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ach year SAM missionaries visit remote villages along the rivers in the Beni department of northern Bolivia. We sail for 10 days down several rivers, able to visit at most only two villages per day, some days none when the villages are longer distances apart. The people seen and cared for say that months go by and no one comes. No one coming means that in most cases there is no gospel proclamation, no announcing of hope and healing.

We spend time with and take medical care to the people of these villages as often as possible, with the resources God gives us. We do it so that no one will say “no one comes” anymore, so that felt needs will be met and God’s redeeming passion for the world will be embodied to transform lives.

We embody this passion by holding medical clinics administered by our missionary doctors and nurses. Basic and regular treatment of medical conditions, which sometimes requires minor surgical procedures, brings physical relief and healing that creates a platform to talk about the complete healing of the soul that God has provided in Jesus. We can provide medical care in the villages for only $1000 per trip, about $2 per patient. Also, a newer, more modern boat with a more efficient engine would afford more time on the river reaching more people; a reasonable budget for purchasing a boat is $50,000.

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Bolivia is the poorest country in South America and over 80% of the population is indigenous.

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all fields—church leadership development

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Develop Leaders for the Church in South America.

Scan the code below with your smartphone barcode app to learn more about a SAM training center.

3. Church Leadership Development suggested gift

$600 provides fees for one year of training.

suggested gift

$50 provides books and materials for the students.

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n Bolivia, the Center for Integral Theological Education trains the working-class men and women in the urban center of Santa Cruz to be leaders in the church. In Brazil, the Ammi Training Center serves indigenous people from the over 340 tribal groups of this great country. To the north in Colombia, CENFOW is a church leadership development center for the Wayuu people who can claim only one pastor for every 45,000 Wayuu. In Peru, the Ashaninka Bible Institute is instrumental in training leaders for the many small churches that are springing up among this people group of 30,000. In Paraguay, SAM helps facilitate training for church leaders eager to engage their congregations in a churchbased theological education program called ETBIL. We have found that our ministry is most effective when we work alongside Godly leaders, encouraging the formation of a heart for their people and a vision for their communities.

The cost of preparing Godly leaders for the church in places like the Amazon Jungle or the coastal desert of Colombia is almost insignificant compared to North American standards.

For just $50 per month, or $600 per year, we can provide Bible-based leadership training to a student whose heart is set on transforming the world for Christ.

Make a donation as a gift In Memory of or In Honor of someone.

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peru­—Heartbeats of hope crisis pregnancy

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Help Pave the Way for Beautiful Life at the Edge of the Amazon.

4. Heartbeats of Hope suggested gift

$25 provides an ultrasound for one client.

suggested gift

$15 provides a volunteer counselor training manual.

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eartbeats of Hope, or Latidos de Esperanza in Spanish—a crisis pregnancy center— formed out of a partnership of seven churches in Pucallpa, Peru. The vision is for a community so transformed by the Gospel that the biblical teachings on purity, marriage and the sanctity of human life are upheld and honored across all generations.

Estimates state that approximately 1,100 unborn babies die each day in Peru, and 800 mothers die annually due to complications.

Heartbeats of Hope is only the 7th crisis pregnancy center in the entire country of Peru (population 30,000,000) and the first in the jungle region as Pucallpa sits on the banks of the Ucayali River, the headwaters of the Amazon. With proper volunteer training, needed medical supplies and diagnostic equipment, we can help to literally save lives and impact young families with the message of hope found in Christ.

A gift as small as $15 can buy a training manual for a new volunteer counselor. $25 provides an ultrasound which is a powerful means through which expecting moms can connect to the life forming inside.

Estimates state that approximately 1,100 unborn babies die each day in Peru, and 800 mothers die annually due to complications. www.southamericamission.org/givingguide

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All fields—SAM 2020

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Make Ministry Effective and Enrich Missionary Spiritual Vitality.

5. SAM 2020 suggested gift

$550 provides a training book for every missionary.

suggested gift

$50 enrolls a missionary in an online training course.

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outh America Mission remains committed to seeing thousands of local communities of the redeemed making disciples in a way that fulfills Jesus’ Great Commission.

SAM 2020 is the name we have given to our honest and careful process of renewal—a process that will allow us to honor God by being available for His purposes in us. Key to this renewal is an understanding: we are who we are because of who Jesus is first and foremost.

Our efforts through SAM 2020 will be given to enriching our spiritual vitality, assessing our present effectiveness, goals and needs as well as asking God to show us what more He would have us do. We will invest in responding to our assessments and dreams by better equipping the SAM missionary team, by improving how we resource our core strategies and ministries and by making changes that respond to the realities of our context.

We will coordinate this renewal across multiple countries and with over 100 missionaries in South America. We need materials and resources that guide us through the renewal process, ground our spiritual vitality, encourage us to dream, and equip us to run the race to see God’s vision become reality.

Follow the SAM 2020 process as it unfolds: http://samsouthamerica.wordpress.com www.southamericamission.org/givingguide

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Good News of god’s Great work in dois unidos

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had no idea that his name was Lenilson Pereira da Silva.

All anyone ever called him was “Tequila”. It was pretty obvious why. No matter the time, day or night, I never saw him when he wasn’t inebriated. His wife and two sons were embarrassed by his behavior but seemed unable to convince him to do anything about it.

Then, when we finally began to have church services in the community with our ministry partner Pastor Amós, Lenilson appeared. Still under the influence of alcohol, he would sit on the back row of the church and weep. We were all saddened by his struggle with alcohol but encouraged that he was seeking the Lord in his moment of greatest need.

One day, as I was on my way to a Bible study in the community, I ran into Lenilson on the path. He asked if I could come by and visit him at his house when I was done. I stopped

by Lenilson’s house, curious as to the reason for the invitation while remaining hopeful that we could have a meaningful conversation about his situation. When I arrived I was greeted

by Lenilson and his wife, Eliane, and asked to come in and sit down. As I did, Lenilson began to open up to me that he was tired of living a life dominated by alcohol and wanted to know if I would be willing to help him regain his life and his dignity. I I prayed that God assured him that I would do what I could for him and asked if I would make His could pray for him and his family. He agreed, so the three of us presence known in stood up, held hands, and we began to pray. I prayed that God Lenilson’s life and would make His presence known in Lenilson’s life and home and home and give him give him the strength to overcome his addiction. I prayed that the strength to over- he would understand that he needed to regain his life so that he come his addiction. could give it away again, this time to God. After a bit of research I was able to discover that there is a free alcoholism treatment facility near my apartment. I spoke directly with the doctor in charge of the facility, and went with Lenilson one day to help communicate the situation to the doctor. Lenilson was accepted into the program and began his treatment that very day. That was July, 2010, and to this day Lenilson has not had another drink of alcohol. He continues his treatment one day a week and is currently sending out resumes to return to the ranks of the employed.

There is one more important part to this story. In August, 2010, about six weeks after Lenilson began his alcoholism treatment, he arrived at church for our Thursday evening service.

When Lenilson arrived I was already seated at the front with Pastor Amós, but when I saw him enter I went to greet him and shake his hand. He was in dress pants, a nice knit shirt, dress shoes and was even wearing cologne. At the end of the service when Pastor Amós asked if anyone wanted to accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, Lenilson came down to the front of the church. I teared up as Lenilson publicly professed his faith for the first time.

When the service concluded a person in attendance came to me, obviously confused. By the way I had greeted Lenilson at the beginning of the service this person assumed that Lenilson was a pastor or church elder, but then he came down to the altar to accept Christ at the end of the service? Who was he? I simply said, “His name is Lenilson, but you used to know him as ‘Tequila’”. —recounted by Craig Delille, SAM Missionary in Brazil www.southamericamission.org/givingguide

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BRAZIL—Redemptive ministry in Dois Unidos

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Provide Food and Shelter, Hope and Comfort in Brazil.

6. Dois Unidos Redemptive Ministry suggested gift

$250 provides a portion of materials to build a house.

suggested gift

$25 provides a food basket for a family in need.

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raig and Mary Delille walked through Frei Damião, a forgotten section of Dois Unidos, Brazil, and knew right away their calling to provide adequate housing to replace the patch-work tin and tarp-covered homes in which many families were living. They soon learned that behind the thin veils of homes were other desperate needs like food and literacy training. Most notably, there was the need to know that God’s love extends to every corner of this world, especially to the seemingly forgotten places.

In partnership with local churches, our desire is to respond to the felt needs we encounter in South America, demonstrating God’s heart for the poor in their local communities.

SAM’s Redemptive Outreach in Dois Unidos provides 50 food baskets every two weeks for families who struggle to make ends meet. We are also building small but safe and secure houses for $3500 per house—$2500 for materials and $1000 for labor.

A gift of $25 buys a food basket that gives necessary sustenance­—and a big dose of hope.

A gift of $250 is like placing a foundational brick in one of the new houses in Dois Unidos.

You can make an immediate impact with gifts to this ministry in Brazil.

“But the needy will not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the afflicted ever perish.” Psalm 9:18 www.southamericamission.org/givingguide

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BRAZIL—CONPLEI 2012

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Join an Important Indigenous Church Movement.

Scan the code below with your smartphone barcode app to watch “CONPLEI 2012”.

7. CONPLEI 2012 suggested gift

$1,000 helps provide food for CONPLEI 2012.

suggested gift

$100 covers an indigenous couple’s meeting costs.

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ONPLEI stands for the National Council of Indigenous Evangelical Pastors and Church Leaders in Brazil. In July of 2012, CONPLEI will hold its quadrennial meeting at the Ammi Training Center in Chapada dos Guimaraes, Brazil. In 1995, with the help of SAM missionaries and indigenous partners from Brazil, Ammi was founded to train leaders to strengthen and grow the indigenous church.

CONPLEI 2012 will bring together in one location over four days an unprecedented number of evangelical indigenous leaders. More than 3,000 will gather to propel the CONPLEI movement forward as it continues to grow the church among the 340 tribal groups of Brazil. Still, today, there are over 100 tribal groups in the jungles with no gospel witness.

As an expression of the strategic alliance between CONPLEI and South America Mission, Ammi, where many of the indigenous pastors have been trained, will host the event. This will be a massive undertaking and only possible as God brings the necessary resources together. Total costs for one day of CONPLEI 2012 are $32,500. Your gift will build an important foundation of support for CONPLEI 2012, and prove critical to the work of reaching every tribe and tongue with the gospel.

You Should Brazil is the fifth most populous nation on earth with

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over 180 languages spoken and 340 people groups.

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COLOMBIA—La Esperanza Scholarships & Supplies

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Enable La Esperanza to Transform Through Hope.

Scan the code below with your smartphone barcode app to watch “Hope in Santa Marta”.

8. La Esperanza School suggested gift

$300 funds one annual scholarship.

suggested gift

$15 provides school supplies for Hope children.

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a Esperanza means “hope”. In the context of El Colegio Cristiano La Esperanza in Santa Marta, Colombia, teachers and staff point students to the one, true hope who is Jesus Christ.

The educational philosophy emphasizes spiritual, intellectual and physical development grounded in strong biblical values. With a top-three ranking in its state in Colombia, the impact La Esperanza is having on hundreds of students and their families and the communities in which they live is truly transformative.

As a ministry of La Esperanza Church in Santa Marta, the school is committed to enhancing its impact by being a viable education option for families across the socio-economic spectrum. La Esperanza can reach more communities with quality, transformative education—with your help. $300 makes it possible to fund one student’s annual tuition through our scholarship matching program. $15 offsets the costs of much-needed and treasured school supplies for Hope children. You can make an immediate impact with your gift to La Esperanza.

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BOLIVIA—english village language acquisition

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Help Equip Latin American Missionaries to Reach the World for Christ.

9. English Village Language Acquisition suggested gift

$250 sends a missionary to the English Village.

suggested gift

$25 provides study materials for one missionary.

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he foundation for effective cross-cultural ministry—meaningful relationships—is stronger when we reach a level of intimacy that comes as we speak into each others lives using a shared language that articulates the deepest longings of the heart and soul. At Pentecost, the Holy Spirit enabled the apostles to speak in all the languages of those in Jerusalem who were from every nation under heaven (Acts 2:4-6), honoring the mother tongues and making a statement that the articulation of the Gospel truth would be a multi-lingual endeavor capable of reaching all people.

SAM missionaries coordinate and help run The English Village, which teaches English as a second language, but the goal of the school is more fundamental. For example, Latin Americans are being mobilized cross-culturally to places like India. The English Village aims to instill educational principles so that learning any language, like Hindi (the official language of India), is easier, allowing missionaries to reach their country of service sooner where they can intimately engage a diverse world with the Gospel truth.

This is so important to the process of mobilizing missionaries and being effective in ministry. For just $250, you can send a missionary to a two-week English Village in Bolivia. $25 buys materials for a missionary to study and learn a new language.

Request copies of this guide for your church, family, neighbors or organization. Indicate on your order form. www.southamericamission.org/givingguide

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All fields—children’s ministry

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Help with the Spiritual and Physical Needs of Children.

10. Children’s Ministry suggested gift

$20 sends a girl to a weekend conference.

suggested gift

$10 sends one boy to an all-day camp.

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n each context of ministry in South America, we realize the importance of capturing the hearts and minds of children for Christ. That is why missionaries like Frank and Luz Zaijek in Gaira, Colombia, lead a thriving AWANA ministry in partnership with the local church. Or why the Children’s Ministry Team of Bolivia holds day camps for Ayoré children and weekend “Princess” conferences for girls discovering their identities in Christ. Or why missionary Matthew Morrison in Paraguay puts structuring a meaningful Children’s Ministry in local churches at the top of his priority list.

Children are often the most receptive to God’s love, but they are also the most vulnerable to believing that the brokenness they experience is all they can ever expect out of the life given to them. We need to teach them, to show them the true love and wholeness in Christ and how the experience of Christ’s love changes everything.

You can help us teach the children with small $10 and $20 gifts that enable us to buy materials and supplies to carry out day camps and weekend conferences where the children come to learn about Christ and see the love of Christ lived out in the lives of missionaries.

“All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children.” Isaiah 54:13 www.southamericamission.org/givingguide

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COLOMBIA—wayuu ministry in the guajira desert

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Help The Wayuu Reach Out in The Guajira Desert.

Scan the code below with your smartphone barcode app to watch “The Wayuu…

How Will They Hear?”

11. Wayuu Ministry suggested gift

$650 provides one month of Oasis broadcast.

suggested gift

$350 provides a laptop computer for Oasis.

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ach day before dawn at 4:30am, a Wayuu pastor offers a devotional over the Oasis Radio broadcast to the Wayuu people in the Guajira desert of northern Colombia. A devotional begins the day and all the way until 8pm this ministry keeps its broadcast live with gospel teaching, music, news, and advice on topics ranging from health to agriculture. Also, for an hour each day, Oasis shares a broadcast to its Spanish-speaking audience from the HCJB radio ministry in Ecuador. Disseminating meaningful content with the power to transform lives is at the heart of Oasis’ mission.

Radio is a powerful tool—sometimes the only tool—to reach people regularly with news of God’s love and redemption. South America Mission, in partnership with a Wayuu church association in the Guajira called FUNDIEGUA, is passionate to see Oasis make Jesus’ name famous through its broadcast ministry.

Oasis needs electronics, especially two laptop computers, to run the broadcast effectively.

Also, Oasis’ DJ (pictured above) works long hours in radio ministry. Funds are needed to sustain him in his work, to keep him “in the booth” broadcasting the message of hope and love to his part of the world.

You Should

know.

There are only 16 trained and recognized pastors shepherding 2,360 baptized members of FUNDIEGUA.

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Paraguay & Peru—theological education

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Raise up a Leadership Corps From Within the Local Church.

Scan the code below with your smartphone barcode app to watch a video about a ministry of Mil Palmeras.

12. Church-Based Theological Education suggested gift

$65 sends a lay leader through one ETBIL course.

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ive years ago, SAM missionaries in Peru planted Iglesia Mil Palmeras, also known as Thousand Palms Church. Today, Mil Palmeras is transforming its community by embodying the Kingdom of God. With over 400 congregants, they are now exploring planting a daughter church in another town in the Amazon jungle.

The charge to be used as vessels to transform lives is growing out of a lay movement within Mil Palmeras. An important tool for equipping these lay leaders is a church-based theological education program called BILD (known as ETBIL in Latin America, “Educación Teológica Basada en La Iglesia Local”). Recently, 30 people from Mil Palmeras completed the first course in the ETBIL program. In Paraguay, South America Mission is helping to facilitate ETBIL training in approximately 80 churches.

This educational model is accessible, affordable and effective for many in the Latin American church. You can send more leaders at Mil Palmeras and in Paraguay through deeper levels of ETBIL training for only $65. As these leaders grow, God’s church in South America grows as well.

Mil Palmeras is fulfilling the vision: Multiplied Dynamic Churches Transforming Communities by Embodying the Kingdom of God. www.southamericamission.org/givingguide

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Good News of god’s Great work through SAMAIR

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was out walking our small dog the other evening…it had been a hectic day for David. The plane that was due for a routine inspection had come in late so the inspection didn’t start until about 11am. They were well into the inspection when David took a call for an emergency flight. A little girl had been impaled by a tree branch. We didn’t know how serious the injury was or the size of the branch but nonetheless, this was an emergency. David went to his colleague Craig and asked, “How late can you leave out of here and still get back before sunset?” Craig told him they would have to leave by 4:30pm to be back by 5:45pm. David’s response, “I will do everything in my power to get this plane put back together by 4:30!” Time was not on David’s side but this little one needed help. We couldn’t use the float plane for this location and the other land plane was torn apart for a 10,000-hour inspection.

So as I was out walking our small dog that afternoon, first I heard the plane, then I saw it circling overhead for the approach to land. I shook my head in wonder that it was up there flying at all. I couldn’t believe it. Even now tears come to my eyes; this is why we are here and I am so thankful. One day it’s a little girl with a branch broken off in her stomach, another day it’s flying missionaries to their tribal work location in the jungle, another day it’s bringing in Peruvian national pastors for training, and the list goes on and on. We are here to support the work of God’s church growing and glorifying, and we do it through aviation.

That day made a difference in this little girl’s life. David got the plane airworthy in order to meet the emergency. I watched the plane until it went from my view but I could still hear it taxi into our hangar. Our team of aviation guys succeeded and David was a part of it. He’s not on the front lines flying, but his job as a mechanic is God’s perfect place for him. Craig, his colleague, commented to our Peruvian friends later that night how David had “whipped that plane together” so he could fly by 4:30.

Pray for this little girl. She had surgery that night. The stick was not that big in diameter but it had indeed broken off in her abdomen. We pray that she will know the love of Christ as we point her to Him by caring for her, bringing her to a place of safety and healing, bringing the gospel to life for her. Pray for the ministry of SAMAIR, that as we facilitate encounters like this through aviation, that the values of God’s Kingdom will be embodied and lives transformed as a result. —recounted by Jan Kooistra, Missionary in Peru

“We are here to support the work of God’s church growing and glorifying, and we do it through aviation.”

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South America Mission—vision-driven

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Bolivia—indigenous & rural medical outreach

Mobilize, Lead, and Equip missionaries and ministries

Provide a new boat to more efficiently reach people sustain 10 village clinics serving 500 people provide medicine for one village clinic

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77410

all fields—church leadership development provide for one year of training provide books and materials for students

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74460

peru—heartbeats of hope crisis pregnancy provide an ultrasound for one client provide a volunteer counselor training manual

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77401

all fields—sam 2020 provide a training book for every SAM missionary enroll a missionary in an online training course

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71461

brazil—redemptive ministry in dois unidos provide a portion of materials to build a house provide a food basket for a family in need

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77421

brazil—conplei 2012 help provide the food for CONPLEI 2012 provide an indigenous couple’s meeting costs

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colombia—la esperanza scholarships & supplies fund one annual scholarship provide school supplies for Hope children

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bolivia—english village language acquisition send one missionary to the english village provide language study materials for one missionary

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77443

all fields—children’s ministry send a young girl to a weekend conference send a young boy to a day camp

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72449

colombia—wayuu ministry in the guajira desert provide one month of OASIS broadcast provide a laptop for the oasis radio ministry

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77410

paraguay and peru—theological education send a leader through one ETBIL course

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Occasionally we receive more contributions for a given project than can wisely be applied to that project. When this happens, we apply these funds to the general ministry of SAM. Gifts are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

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