About Me
- Joe and Gail Owens
- I am a missionary church planter in Cordoba, Argentina co-laboring with Argentine men to establish reproducing churches in their country to fulfill the Great Commission to spread the gospel throughout their country and the world through biblical discipling of their own people. My wife joins me in this effort by sharing with the women the important role that God has for them in ministry alongside their husbands or as a single person in the local church. We are thankful for this opportunity to serve God in another country in order to give people the hope that God desires for all the world to have.
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Happy New Year 2013 from Argentina
Dear Prayer Partners
Just received some great news this morning and something for
you all to pray about. Jorge from Rayo Cortado stopped by on his way back from
visiting his parents for New Year’s and shared how their end of year activity
went. They were able to have a young lady who is a believer and also sings
folkloric music come and sing for them on December 29. She also shared her
testimony of how God had worked in her life to draw her to Himself and the
difference her relationship with God has made in her life. Several others from
Rayo also shared their salvation testimonies.
The group in Rayo worked hard on inviting people with whom
they had previously had the opportunity of sharing the Gospel. They had between
90-100 people present. The singer arrived with her musicians at 11:30 pm and
began the concert. The concert lasted until 2:30 am. There was a salvation
message preached. Afterwards, several expressed an interest in having people
from the church come and begin an evangelistic Bible study with them. One of
them was the police chief from Rio Seco, another was a doctor from San
Francisco de Chañar.
The thing that excited me the most was the change in the
focus of the church in Rayo. They like doing the big events. This time they
viewed the big event not as an evangelistic push in and of itself but as a door
that allowed people from the community to come and meet the church and see how
God was working in the lives of their members. They viewed it as a way to find
out who in the different communities would be interested in hosting
evangelistic Bible studies in their homes. They are putting into practice the
chronological way of teaching the Bible which we have spent the last year in
preparing them to teach. This way of teaching has been very well received in
the communities and it is has really motivated the men.
Pray for them as they follow up on these contacts. Pray
specifically that God would move in the hearts of those who have expressed an
interest in opening their homes for the studies. Pray for those family members
who will hear the chronological presentation of the wonderful salvation God has
provided, the culmination of which we celebrate at this time of year. Pray for
the men as they lead these studies. Pray for the women who have been challenged
by their husbands at Rayo Cortado to prepare themselves so they can lead studies among the
women to support their own husbands as spiritual leaders in their families.
Pray for Joe as he continues meeting with the men and
providing the leadership training they need to form not only the church in Rayo
but to form the leaders of the new churches that they are hoping will come out
of these evangelistic Bible studies in Rio Seco and San Francisco de Chañar.
Pray too for Gail as she continues to encourage the ladies to follow the men’s
lead in these things.
Thank you so much for your faithful prayers for us as we
continue to labor here in the heart of Argentina.
Joe and Gail Owens
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