A Very Full Week in Lautaro

Hola from the Araucania region of Chile! We have been in Lautaro for over two weeks now and are getting settled into our new home and church family!

Our new rental home!

prepping the wall panels

We've hit the ground running! Though a couple more suitcases & boxes still need to be unpacked, we are already in the throes of ministry: a construction team of fourteen has been here the past 10 days (they just left this morning), so Gus has been with them all day almost every day, working, translating and transporting! The classroom walls are going up in the school being built at the church, so that’s very exciting, visible progress!

and they're up!

We hosted two people helping with the construction this week in our home, and we also had a spontaneous 5-day visit from two of Gus’s aunts and a 6-year-old cousin from Santiago! So, our mostly unpacked and barely set up house has been quite full and sleeping quarters have been tight! (smile)

Now there’s a 2-week break from construction work, but another team comes March 5^th-14^th and then a third team arrives one day later, staying from the 15^th – 24^th! So most of March is going to be busy, busy, busy!

the cut is healing well

Prayer requests:

- For physical health (against colds and other illnesses as we’ve changed climates) as well as physical protection (i.e. Gus split his finger open on the work-site with a switch-blade that wasn’t properly locked! Thankfully one of the team members is a nurse and was able to stop the bleeding, bandage the cut and check on the daily healing progress.)

- For continuing to adapt well as a family to the weather, this house and the ministry here;

- For good relationships to continue to be built with members of this community;

- For provision for our monthly budget needs.

Thank you for your continued support through prayer and financial gifts! We are excited about what God is doing in this city and region of Chile, and are blessed to be sharing in this work with you!

Because of His Name,

Gustavo, Karissa, Jeremy, Elizabeth, Cristina & Diego Guevara

P.S.: Now that we’re here in Lautaro, our goal is to write a new blog post every week or two to keep you updated on current happenings. So, please subscribe to this blog if you haven’t yet and/or check back regularly for updated news! (wink)