One house and 25 of our closest friends.....

Dear Friends,
         Thanks for your prayers. Jenn and I had a wonderful time in Peru with key leaders from all over South America. We had 25 leaders with us (all staying together in one house!) outside of Lima representing ministries from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela. It was a fantastic time of sharing together, listening to the Lord and equipping leaders with the tools they need to live out the vision growing the ministry to teens God has called us to.  Jenn and I were blessed to be there, privileged to help train these leaders and very encouraged by what God’s doing in and through the ministry of Young Life in South America.

        I’ll write you more about this time in our next newsletter, but if you’d like to get a short glimpse of what this meant to the leaders you can see a couple quick videos of Fabian and  Enrique.

    
   Fabian Bruzzone heads our work in Paraguay and Enrique Vargas is the new regional director for the Andes Mountains who helped plan the training time. Hope you can take a minute to let them tell you about the week and thank you for being a blessing to leaders and teens in Latin America.
       Please be praying for my next trip too. Next week I’ll be in Ecuador, where Young Life is just starting ministry. God has been opening some doors there and connecting us with some amazing people there in the past year and it seems very clear the Spirit is on the move in Ecuador, so please pray for the leaders and potential leaders we’ll be meeting with and training and the fruit we hope and pray will come from this time.

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