SNAP

3rd February 2014
News

Spanish Worship Night

The next Spanish Worship night will be on Tuesday 4th February at 7.30pm for tea and coffee, starting at 8pm and will be held in The Hub (22 Elmwood Avenue, Belfast, BT9 6AY).  Pray for those who organise the Spanish Worship Night and a real sense of fellowship with those who share a passion for South America and/or Spain.

Friday Night Live

Pray for Friday Night Live (FNL) preparations and also the FNL gathering which will be held in Craigavon Civic Centre on Friday 7th February at 7.30pm. FNL be an evening to be informed challenged and encouraged on missional developments in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Peru. There are exciting stories of God at work, so pray with us and for us. Refreshments afterwards will create an opportunity to meet old friends and make new ones!

Gwen Carlisle and Mags Southern

Pray for Gwen and Mags who travelled back to Paraguay on 28th January.  Pray for them as they settle back in to Paraguayan life and for St Andrew’s School as they prepare to start back after the holidays.  Give thanks for the time they were able to spend in the UK and for each of the churches they visited. 

Claire Holmes

Pray for all the ministries in Concepción.  Give thanks for the children and youth who have recently been involved in summer camps and pray that they will be spiritually strengthened from the camps.  Pray too for Claire, for the work she is involved in and for her to have time for rest in between all the work she does.

Student Ministry, Chile

Pray for Max Díaz, who has recently started his student ministry work in Chile and for God’s wisdom throughout this project.  Pray that God will open the doors for the gospel in the universities and for boldness for Max to proclaim the message.  Pray also for Cristóbal Cerón, that God will give him strength, guidance and vision as he is finishing up the third year of church planting. 

The Tester Family

Paul, Sarah and Sophia arrived safely back in Peru at the end of December.  Pray for the family as they are entering camp season starting with Arequipa 7th – 9th Feb and Students / Young Adults in Lima 21st-23rd February.  Please pray for the young people attending, for God’s will to be done in their lives and for the team of leaders and speakers preparing for the camps.  Please also pray for safety and to work well together.  Pray intentionally for the Tester family as they speak, help, pray and give input into the summer ministries.

FUSION

Pray for Daniela Alvarez from Santiago, Chile who is preparing to participate on the SAMS FUSION programme later this month.  Pray for Daniela’s safe arrival and for her year based in Northern Ireland that it will be a blessing both for Daniela and those who she will be working with.

Summer Camps in Peru

29th January 2014
Peru, PRAY

Dear Praying Friends,

We hope you all are well and send our greetings!

We are safely back in Peru and we are now into camp season!

Could we please ask for your prayers for the forthcoming camps?:

Teenagers in Lima: 30th  Jan – 2nd  February

Arequipa: 7th – 9th  Feb

Students / Young Adults in Lima: 21st -23rd  February

Please pray for the young people attending, for God’s will to be done in their lives and for the team of leaders and speakers preparing for the camps. Please also pray for safety and good working together. Do also please pray for us as we travel and attend the camps and speak, help, pray and guide.

We’ll look forward to sending more details soon after the camps in a full update.

Many thanks

Paul, Sarah and Sophia

Art Auction Fundraiser

23rd January 2014
News

I am auctioning this piece of art for my dad’s work with SAMS (South American Mission Society). Feel free to bid on this original acrylic of Bendy Amsterdam

Bidding starts at £50. Auction closes midday 31st January let me know if you want to bid!

Tanya Mai Johnston

tanyajohnston1974@gmail.com

Tanya x

 

 

Spanish Worship Night Update!

23rd January 2014
News

If you have a heart for Latin-American and/or Spain and like speaking the language, don’t miss this opportunity of worshipping our Lord and sharing between each other in Spanish.

Save the date: Tuesday 4th of February, 7:30pm for tea & coffee (starting at 8pm) at The Hub (22 Elmwood Avenue, Belfast, BT9 6AY).

See you there! Blessings!

Penelope

 

A life lived for the glory of God

21st January 2014
PRAY

Funeral Reflections

We hope the following reflections from the funeral of Dorothea Wedgwood Clarke, founder of San Andres in Asuncion helps you catch a glimpse of a life lived to the glory of God.

Dear friends,

We thought you’d be interested to receive an account of Thea’s wonderful funeral, at St. Paul’s Church, Ryde on the !sle of Wight, last Friday.

The service, all arranged by Thea in 2009, was beautifully led by Rev. Peter Pimentel, with the hymns “Great Is Thy faithfulness”, “Psalm 23” (to Crimond) and “Beauty For Brokenness” and the reading from Revelation 21: 1-7, chosen by Glenys Williams.

Christopher Wedgwood, Thea’s brother, who had put in a great deal of work to make the occasion so special, read out various appreciative messages he had received from different people who had known and loved Thea.  There were comments on Thea’s enthusiasm and many practical gifts; her generosity; her creativity;  her many adventures worldwide, after she left Paraguay and travelled as an itinerant missionary; her positive outlook on life and lack of complaining even in her final sufferings in her Care Home; and above all her passionate love for and commitment to Jesus. Eileen gave a tribute on her contribution to Paraguayan education, and Molly read some quotations from C S Lewis’s “The Last Battle” with her final suffering in mind.

Rev. Peter Pimentel based his short address on Zephaniah 3: 17, stressing God’s love and delight in those who love him, as Thea so deeply did.

“The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save.
He will take great delight in you,
he will quiet you in his love,
He will rejoice over you with singing.”

We were quite nervous about having to participate in the service, but from the beginning, when Rev. Peter Pimentel said that we were present to celebrate a very remarkable life, there was such a note of joy and appreciation of Thea’s love for Jesus and her zest for life in all its fullness, that it was a privilege to take part.  There were about 50 people present, including family and people with past links to the South American Missionary Society – Philip and Rosemary Tadman,  Nicky Harmer, Mandy Lines, and Helen Sohns.  There were also many friends from different places and people from the Priory and the Care Home, where Thea had spent her later years.

The service was followed by the cremation, and as we entered the chapel, a recording of the St. Andrew’s School hymn sung in 2003 by the children was played.  This was a song very much loved by Thea, and in her final months, Christopher and she sang it together often. After a solemn Commendation of Thea to the Lord, in Hebrew and English, the curtains round the coffin closed to a wonderful rendering of the whole of Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus.”  It was such a fitting ending and new beginning of a very remarkable life!

Love,

Molly & Eileen

 

SNAP

8th January 2014
News

ARGENTINA: Please pray for president Cristina Kirchner and her government. Pray for SAMS Red Box Project coordinator Cecilia Valdiviezo and her time in Northern Ireland this month. Pray for Cecilia as she shares with supporting churches – in the midst of a busy programme pray that Cecilia will be refreshed as she catches up with friends.

PARAGUAY: Esperanza Foster Home: Give thanks for the past year, the children who have stayed in the home and the growth they felt through their stay there.  Pray for the future of the home, for Inocencia, who is currently the main foster mum, and pray too for the children who will stay at the home over the next year.  That it will be a place full of love and hope for them. 

CHILE: SAMS are happy to let you know that from this month, we will be supporting a new project with Santiago Apóstol Church in Chile.  The goal of this project is to support a full time worker to share the message of Jesus amongst the many students there.  Santiago is home to at least 50% of the students in the country, but there is not a single local evangelical church in downtown Santiago that works throughout the week, full-time, to serve the thousands of students there.  Pray for Rev. Cristóbal Cerón of Santiago Apóstol Church and the project leader Max Díaz. 

GENERAL COUNCIL: Pray for the SAMS General Council meeting on 16th January and for all the council members. Pray that God will lead and guide them and that they will be open to hearing God’s voice as they plan for future developments.

TRANSIT: Give thanks for the Christmas visit of Jonny and Lynn Lockhart to Claire in Concepcion, pray for safety in travel as they return to the UK on 14th January. Pray for Chris and Alison Hawksbee as they return to Paraguay on 21st January. Give thanks for the encouraging time Chris and Alison had with Annaghmore Parish. Pray for Gwen and Mags as they return to Asuncion on 28th January. 

FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE: Pray for Friday Night Live (FNL) preparations. FNL will be held in Craigavon Civic Centre on Friday 7th February at 7.30pm. FNL be an evening to be informed challenged and encouraged on missional developments in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Peru. There are exciting stories of God at work, so pray with us and for us. Refreshments afterwards will create an opportunity to meet old friends and make new ones!

“To know the Word of God, to live the Word of God, to preach the Word, to teach the Word, is the sum of all wisdom, the heart of all Christian service.”

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