UPDATE FROM THE BUENOS AIRES TEAM!!

What an incredible trip God has planned and continues to reveal for our team!!  Everything is going very well.

 Departure- 9-8-12
 Our journey began with amazing friends, leaders& staff praying for us and around us at Saddleback Church.  We thank you all so much for this- what a way to confidently send us off on this “hand Selected” mission.  We arrived safely without incident.


 9-9-12 Check-in and Rey de Reyes (King of Kings)
 We forgot we were in Argentina and were on American way of thinking with time.
 While waiting for our room, we ate and we ate and “we ate”.  We met with Kevin, a Baptist missionary  from Tennessee here for 7 years; charming accent, faith filled, funny and informative, who gave us an orientation about Buenos Aires.  He inspired us to embrace the culture, fall in love with the city, to be ourselves, and “not to be weird”.  And then we ate.


 We attended the service of the church Rey de Reyes (King of Kings), which is an evangelistic charismatic mega-church in Buenos Aires.  The worship was an hour and a half and was fantastic.  The whole service  lasted 3 hours.  They shared about outreach activities that they have been doing in the poor communities through a documentary they showed.  The message spoke of love,relationships, commitment, and reaching out. And then we ate.


 9-10-12 A Day at Palermo
 The day started with an awesome devotional time (but first we ate).  We were given our assignments and prepared our materials. Half of us did surveys on the street, and half visited businesses to give them invitations to the outreach event that will occur Thursday night.   We were together for a fantastic meal of“Meat”.  Then we were all out and about in the community with the locals walking into shops and doing our prayer walk.  It is a beautiful amazing city and God blessed us with weather that could be compared to California's favorite fall day.  We have already received our first response to our invitation. Giving God the Glory!