We arrrived this morning bright and early at 7:00am.  We made it here with only an hour delay, and are very happy to be home!!!!!   Now, we are resting, showering, and waiting on the other teams to arrive from Peru, Uganda, and South Asia.  We will spend the next day debriefing all together, and then we leave for our own homes on Friday morning. Thank you so much for your prayers and walking with us this summer.  We are so blessed because of you!!!!!!

Barbara Ann and Kenny, CC’s Chile

Today we were invited to go to a local “House Church” here in Santiago.  We sang songs in Spanish, and then performed the drama.  Kenny gave a more in depth “net.”  There were lots of visitors there, and new missionaries from the States also.  So, needless to say, we spoke some English today!  They fed us a great lunch, we fellowshipped with them, and then headed back to the Seminary for a time of rest before heading out to our final drama of this trip!

Tonight we went to perform the drama at a youth rally at a local Collegio here in Santiago.  First of all, there were about 250 youth there.  They were kicking off a week long Jesus outreach in this city.  When we got there, they gave us a snack to eat, and a drink to drink, and then we had a rockin’ time of worship together!  They worshiped Jesus so boldly and out loud!!!  It encouraged our hearts so much to see local youth here in Chile worship the Lord like they did.  After a time of worship, we set the stage in under 40 secs (that’s very fast in case you didn’t know! :), gave the intro for our drama, and then performed it.  The youth were very intensely watching the drama.  There were no jokes being said, no laughing at the wrong time, it was them being focused on the Word of God being played out.  You see, these local youth are fellow believers, and we were there to help send them out into their city to share the gospel.  They were going to hand out bottled water, and other goodies at stoplights, and ask the people in their cars if there was anything they could pray about over them.  This was our final drama of this trip, and it was cool, because we got to help them start their “trip” so to speak!!!  We are pumped at all God did tonight, and are very encouraged for how our God moved tonight.

It’s hard to believe that we are almost at the end of our trip.  God has moved in mighty ways this summer.  Later I will post an email from our missionary Ken Bowie about just how much God has moved in Chile this summer. It will encourage your socks off!  It sure has mine!!!!

We cannot say thanks enough for you walking with us this summer in Chile.  It was definitely a “we” experience!  You were right there with us!  We will post one more time, and then that will be our last post from Chile.  Bittersweet definitely!!!!  We love this land so much, and even though it will be hard leaving, we are excited for the things that God has for us back at home, and to share with you the GREAT THINGS THAT GOD HAS DONE IN CHILE THIS SUMMER!!!!!!

until later…

Barbara Ann and Kenny, CCs Chile

Yesterday we started our day off in the Parque O’Higgins.  This is a large amusement park here in Santiago. . . no, we didn’t go riding rides!  But we did go on a “wild ride” for Jesus so to speak!  We started off by prayerwalking in a park right in front of the amusement park, then ate lunch, then set up and performed the drama.  We met a man who was already a believer, and was really encouraged by what we were doing there . . . aka, what God was doing through us.  After the drama we decided it was better to go back to the Plaza de Armes since there were lots of people there anyway.

We did the drama in the Plaza three times yesterday afternoon, back to back to back!!!  The third time we did the drama, there were three to four dogs that were literally in our drama (you can see them in some of the pics we added last night).  They started to be kind of a bother, but we continued on sharing the gospel, and increased praying while doing the drama.

When the drama was finished, we went out to minister in our groups, and one group went over to talk to a woman nearby.  She was a seeking soul who knew that she needed Jesus and gave her heart to the Lord right then!  All the dogs barking and being a bother in our drama was worth it!   It was like the evil one was trying to be a huge distraction because God was about to bring salvation to the Plaza!  We rejoice all the more for it!!!!

When we finished at the Plaza we took the subway to the bus, then went to a public center where we met another missionary here in Santiago that we will be working with on Sunday.  He gave us flyers to tape up on house gates inviting people to the drama that we will do on Sunday at 12:00pm.  So, we split up in 6 groups. One group included Ken and a friend here, Dani, and we went around prayerwalking and taping up flyers for Sunday afternoon.  It was such a nice break from doing drama ministry, to minister door to door on foot!  We had a great time doing it!  We came back and warmed our insides with some hot soup,  salad, and pizza from Domino’s.

Today we got to sleep in and met together at 12:30 for separate guy/ girl teachings.  The men had “man time”, and the girls had a time of learning about the heart of woman, and who God made them to be.  It was a great afternoon.  We are now fellowshipping together with our new friend we met in Ovalle, who is from Belgium and speaks great English!

Tomorrow, we are going to perform the drama at 12:00pm with a church here in Santiago.  We are praying that the people on whose gates we taped flyers will overflow the auditorium!  Please pray with us for that!  Tomorrow will be our last day of drama ministry here.  Monday we will spend time shopping, and Tuesday we fly back to the States.  I can’t believe that it’s almost the end of the trip.  Oh, how God has moved this summer.  Thank you for walking with us, praying for us, seeking with us.  It’s just like you were with us here this summer.  We are so grateful for you.

Loving Jesus. . . for salvation has come to Chile this summer.

Barbara Ann and Kenny, CCs

Tuesday we wrote that we were going to try to go to the Presidential Palace and do the drama. It became late in the day, so we decided to go the next day.  We finished out our day on Tuesday having spoken with some fellow believers, some people who we got to plant seeds in, and some men from the States who claimed to be agnostic.  Those men could not understand how we got to talk about Jesus in the public schools here and didn’t really understand why we were here sharing our faith.  So one ministry team explained to them why we were here and got to plant seeds in these men.  We finished out our day in the city and took the subway, to the public bus, to our seminary where we are staying.  Yesterday we woke up and spent some time in a teaching together before we went out into the city.  Our team is learning that to follow Christ, we can’t put anything before Him, we must lay it all down at his feet.  Such growth is happening in the lives of your students.

We started our day yesterday at the Presidential Palace.  We walked to the back area of the Palace to see about doing the drama there, and it was barricaded off.  So, we talked to some guards and went into the art museum to take in the real culture of Chile, while prayerwalking around.  Part of ministering in another culture is learning the culture so well so that it can be used as a tool in ministry.  After the museum, we walked to the front of the Palace and Ken spoke with the police guards that were outside.  He even asked if the President was there and if she wanted to see our drama.  Turns out that she was busy, and couldn’t make it, but they were seeing if it was okay to perform outside the Palace on the grass.  The guards were very kind and did everything they could, but apologetically said that we couldn’t do it there because of the President meeting with people from other countries this week.  But they did say that we could do it all we wanted in the Plaza de Armes. So, the moral of the story is, the Lord allowed us to pray in front of the Presidential Palace, and every footstep we take is another step for Jesus, even if we don’t do the drama. . . it’s just a tool for ministry.  Jesus walked all over the Palace grounds yesterday.  Our disappointment is God’s divine appointment!

We walked to the Plaza de Armes, set our stage, and shared the gospel.  After the third time of doing the drama there, a lady came over to one of our ministry teams.  She said, “I could tell something is different about you guys. I can see that your love for one another is so strong.”  She talked about how she meets people in the churches there, and they seem so fake, and how this difference in us was real.  Praise the Lord that He is all over us, that others can see!  No language barrier there, just the love of Jesus!

We had an awesome time of worship and fellowshipped in the Lord last night, and woke this morning, ate breakfast (cereal and yogurt), and then looked up verses together.  Our hearts are connected more than ever through Jesus.  Thank you for praying unity over us.  We are truly unified together in Jesus, and really are going to miss each other when this trip is over.

Please pray that as we finish out our final days of ministry, that our focus would be strong, we would continue to be unified together, and that divine encounters would come even more!  And please continue to pray for strong good health in us.

blessed, and loving what the Lord is doing…

Barbara Ann and Kenny, CCs

Pictures will come later today…:)

Hola!

We arrived last night to our final home for the remainder of our trip. We are staying in a seminary here in Santiago.  We arrived tired, but excited for the things that God is going to do here.

So far today, we have performed the drama in a park in front of the History Museum here.  When set it up, we were stopped by a police officer.  He asked, “By what authority do you have permission to do this here?” and we told him that we had the HIGHEST AUTHORITY!  He said, “Okay, thanks!” Our God is our authority!  Praise the Lord for favor!  We then took the metro (subway) over to the Plaza de Armes of Santiago, where we are now performing the drama.  Our highest Authority gave us permission to be here, and we are so thankful!  Later today we will make our way over to the President’s Palace of Chile and ask permission to perform it in her courtyard, right in front of her front door. And how awesome would it be for her to be home!  Please continue to pray favor with us, as we work our way into places where only our Highest Authority can get us in!

Please continue to pray for good health, great excited hearts for what God is going to do in this new city, and open doors of favor for the gospel to get in . . . great divine encounters!

Blessed!

Barbara Ann and Kenny, CCs

We just received word that the Chile team has arrived safely in Santiago.  They are all doing well and eager to begin ministry there.  Pray that God will open the hearts of those whom they will encounter and that the seeds that have been planted in previous years will be cultivated and harvested.

Buenas Noches from one last evening in Ovalle!

We board a bus tomorrow morning at 9:30am and drive 6 hours to our next and final destination in Chile,  Santiago.  We will stay there for nine days before we fly back to the states on the 21st.

Last night we had a great time of fellowship with the youth from the church.  We played American games and some Chileno games,  sang karaoke, and ate pizza.  It was a great time of fellowship with other believers!

God is moving here!  We feel that tonight our bus driver Andres gave his heart to Jesus!  He has been our bus driver the whole time that we have been here in Ovalle.  We are really overjoyed by this!

Today we did our final dramas in Ovalle.  One in the Market, and one in the Alameda.  We had extra bread, so we got the opportunity to hand it out to people in the Alameda.   Conversations were started, and people were overjoyed to receive it.

Tonight we gave our final testimonies to the church here in Ovalle, sang some songs in English, and listened to Kenny preach.  We said our “see you laters” to people in the church and gave lots of hugs.

Please continue to pray for good health as we travel tomorrow, and for rest on the bus ride down to Santiago.  We are going to miss Ovalle, but are excited at the thought of a new city to minister in.  Please continue to lift up our missionaries Ken and Linda.  They have blessed us so much while we have been here.  Ken will be traveling to Santiago with us, while Linda will stay here.

Chat to you soon, from Santiago!

Barbara Ann and Kenny- CCs, Chile

Hola this warm sunny day in Ovalle, Chile!  Yesterday was a great day in Combarbala.  We woke up at 5:30, boarded the bus by 6:00 and off we went into the mountains!

Our first school welcomed us with WIDE OPEN ARMS!   They were upset with us that we had already eaten breakfast.  They wanted to bless us by feeding us.  So they gave us tea and coffee instead.  The school presented Tyler and Cindi with gifts and our missionaries with gifts also.  We were so blessed by them.  The students were very receptive to the gospel!

Two schools later, one ministry group went over to talk with two girls.  The girls decided they didn’t want to follow their old way of life and wanted a fresh start with Jesus, and gave their hearts to the Lord!  Salvation has come to this beautiful city!  Please continue to pray for our new sisters in the Lord.  Pray for their minds to be guarded from confusion of the religion of this land.  They are truly free from bondage of saints now.

We went to the Plaza de Armes of Combarbala, and performed the drama and ate lunch.  One group got to talk a long time with a group of high school boys.  They didn’t make decisions, but we feel that truth is now left on their minds.

God is really breaking our hearts for the people of this land.  Please pray for lies that the evil one is placing on these children and adults.  It’s not truth.  They have believed the lies for far too long.  Please pray for bondage to continue to be broken here.

As a team we are continuing to learn what it means to love each other in good times and bad.  We are learning more and more what it means to dwell and live in Awe of the Lord.  We don’t want to miss anything that God has for us here.  Please pray for instant recognition of Gods voice, and his truth.

We are enjoying a day off today.  Tonight the youth of the church are coming over and we are having a fiesta with them!  We are so stoked to love on them in Jesus!  Tomorrow is our last day of drama here in Ovalle.  We board a bus and head back to Santiago for the remainder of our time here.  Please pray for great divine encounters here in this city!

resting in Him…

Barbara Ann and Kenny- CCs Chile

Holy is the Lord, God Almighty!!!!

What a great day in the Lord yesterday!  We woke up and drove into the city of El Palque.  We are so encouraged by what the Lord has done.  We started our day off knowing we would have 7 dramas to do, but God had other things in mind.  Two schools canceled because of prior commitments.  So we went to the next school on our list.  This school was wonderful!  They blessed us by serving us hot chocolate and cookies.  We had a great time of worship and then performed the drama.  We met a teacher at this school who is already a believer in Jesus.  You see, what’s great about performing the drama in the public schools here is that we have the freedom to hand them a pamphlet that explains the drama further and who each figure represents. Then the teachers go back into the classrooms and explain it even further to their students!  What a great foothold for the gospel to get into these schools!

We went to our next school and prayerwalked around the city before doing the drama.  This school decided that they wanted to “give back” to us by serving us lunch.  We took a break from PB & J today to eat a lunch of noodles, beef, and bread!  We found out that the director at this school is a believer!  He said that in the faculty meeting that afternoon he was going to talk with the teachers about changing things at the school.  He said these students NEED this message in their lives!  Have I mentioned that we are SO ENCOURAGED by what the Lord is doing in this “closed off” land?!?!?!

That afternoon, we returned to the school we visited in the morning.  After playing the LARGEST games of Duck, Duck, Goose ever, we left and went to the Plaza de Armes of El Palque.  We prayerwalked for a while and sensed that the Lord was saying to do the drama in the plaza.  So we set the stage and did the drama.  When it was over, one group went up and chatted with two ladies.  One lady said that her niece had seen the drama that morning in the school and played Duck, Duck, Goose and had explained everything in the drama to her. This lady was hungry for the Word and wanted to know more. She gave her information to Linda, our contact.  Linda is going to follow up with her.  I’m so glad we did the drama there.  This lady is so close to coming to know Him. It’s huge!

THEN, last night we went to the municipal building.  On the way we sang “When I think About the Lord,” and “Let It Rain.”  The Holy Spirit inhabited that bus!  We walked off the bus with the cry of our hearts being, “God, do whatever You want to do tonight, and please let it be salvation for these people!!!!”  We walked into the building, prayerwalked it, cried out for salvation and then set the stage.  We waited to do the drama for about 45 minutes after we got there  because we were waiting for more people to arrive.  We found out that all the people in the building were from a church except for one man.  After the drama a group went up and talked to him.  This man gave His heart to Jesus last night.  He said he was from Peru.  After we left there one student came up to me and said that before we did the drama she prayed in the exact seat the man sat in.  She sat there for a long time,  lifting whoever would sit there up to the Lord.  SALVATION CAME!!!!!!!!!!!!     We are so encouraged! And if one hundred people would have been there, it might have been harder to see that man, but last night, we had church people and the one.  And we rejoice even more for him.  Please pray for our new brother Italio.  A man from Peru, here in Chile . . . remember Philip on the road to Gaza??  This was a divine encounter only orchestrated by the Lord.

Thank you for praying.  Please continue to pray for salvation to come to this land!  Please pray for more divine encounters, and that we don’t miss any that the Lord wants for us!

Tomorrow morning at 6am we board a bus and drive higher into the mountains into a city called Combarbala.  Please pray away car sickness  and for rest on the bus ride up there.  Pray for men and women of favor and for open doors to share the Gospel.  This is a new city for us to work in.  We are excited to get to be there.

We are encouraged!   Please keeping praying for the deep things of God to dwell in us and for our hearts to remain focused on the things of God here and what he is doing.

Barbara Ann and Kenny- CCs, Chile

Buenas Noches!

It has been a fantastic day here in Chile.  This morning we woke up to frost on the ground and a chill in the air.  After having such a long day yesterday, we went to bed early last night . . . 8:30pm!  We all woke up feeling refreshed, and ready for a new day with Jesus!  We started our morning off with a great breakfast of pizza (yum!), coffee, hot tea, and cereal.  Our first stop was at a school that Awe Star hasn’t been to before.  The students in this school were very attentive to watching the chronological Bible storying through the performing arts (that was for Walker ).

The next school where we went called Ken, our missionary, while we were on the way, to say “Hey, we are ready for you!”  That’s exciting to us, because they were excited to hear the gospel.  At this school we met a lady who was from New York and is here in Chile teaching English for ten weeks.  She said the drama was very beautiful and portrayed in such a great way to understand.  We started to talk with her about whether she went to church, and explained to her why we were there . . . to tell others about a relationship with Jesus Christ.  We told her about where we would be next and she said that she was going to bring her little sister tomorrow night to our performance at the Municipal building.  Please, please pray for another encounter with her. Her name is Alexandria.  It was a great encounter with her today, one that only the Lord could set up. . . and He set it up for us to speak with her in English!

We prayerwalked part of the city today and prayed that God would continue to break down the darkness that is so prominent here.  He is moving.

Tomorrow night at 7:30pm Eastern time (the time here in Chile . . . 6:30pm central) we have the awesome opportunity to perform the drama in the Municipal Government auditorium.  Please pray for a crowd to come and for divine appointments like no other!  We want God to move that place so much and for people to come to Him in a way that only He can bring them!  So, we are asking for people who have seen the drama before, for new people, for old friends, and for new friends to come.   We are praying with urgent hearts for this land to come to know Him.  Thank you for joining with us.

We can’t wait to see what God does.  Thank you for walking with us.

Please pray for divine appointments like no other.  Please also pray for the deep things of God to continue to encompass our team.  Pray for a fresh word from our Lord to touch our hearts.

Resting in Him . . .

Barbara Ann and Kenny- CCs, Chile