Sometimes Ministry in Chile looks like…
- Cleaning the church
- Spending many days peeling stems off of raisins and crushing walnuts
- Baking Christmas Bread
- Dressing up like Santa’s elves and selling Christmas bread in the streets
- Learning Spanish for a live Christmas nativity set
- Talking with a man about DisneyWorld for 45 minutes
- Eating dinner and laughing with local church members
- Going to the market and inviting locals to a nativity scene
- Going on an adventure with your host family
- Speaking about what the Lord is teaching you at church
- Herding 15 little children for Sunday school
- Talking with a local street artist about his life and his faith
- Sharing a meal with the Chilean church ladies
- Eating a bowl of ice cream while yelling to the locals about Pan de Pascua (the Christmas bread that we’re selling)
- Getting to have good conversations with teammates while wandering the streets of Los Andes
- Making a traditional American thanksgiving meal for our host parents and talking about all of the things that we’re thankful for
- Speaking very, very broken Spanish and English with a member of the church and getting to know his story
- Being told that you’re hiking a mountain with the youth to plant trees. But there’s no youth. And no trees. So basically just hiking a mountain at night?
- Being in a small group of youth and talking about what healthy relationships look like
- Looking through pictures of your host’s favorite part of the country and listening to them talk about all of the things that they love about it… through Google translate
- Talking to Jehovah’s Witnesses about what they believe in comparison to what I believe
- Baking brownies for a breakfast for new people at the church
- Making s’mores with the local shoe store owner
- Preparing a drama to perform in the plaza
- Cleaning our house for small groups
- Doing logistics for the squad!
- Talking with the taxi driver about his life
- Praying for local church members that are struggling
- Planning new things for the church’s Christmas Eve service.
- Preaching a sermon about how love is slow to anger.
- Performing a drama in the plaza and getting to lead locals to Christ!
- Singing in the kid’s Christmas program
- Handing out flyers for youth group
- Water balloon fights with the youth group
- Dancing during worship with Jose Luis!
- Greeting all of the church members as they walk into service
- Preparing the church for services
- Making a final dinner for your host families!
I’ve had a super amazing time here in Chile! We were welcomed into this culture so well. I loved being able to be here for 2 months and form really great relationships with people. I love Chile and their people!
ALSOOOO I’m only $400 away!! $400!! If anyone is interested in supporting me, click on the donate button above!! We’re soooo close!
