We are working on some different ways we can help our church engage with the churches in Argentina, during the seasons when we don't have teams going to visit! Every month, we video call one of the partnering pastors in Argentina. We ask them about what they are celebrating, what they are challenged by, and their biggest prayer needs. Then we compile that into a bullet point prayer list and put it on a slide to share on a Sunday morning. During the Argentina Update portion of our announcements, we invite our church to take 2 minutes to pray with the people around them, for the needs of the pastors and the church there. 

People have already made comments to us about how fun it is to hear how each pastor is doing on a more regular basis, which was encouraging! We are hoping that even this simple prayer moment on a Sunday, will keep the mission God has called us to as a body in front of us! 

We had the opportunity to attend Mountain View Church’s Live the Mission Conference a couple weeks ago! We felt so blessed to sit in a room with so many different missionaries from all over, hearing stories of what God has done and is doing in their countries. It got us excited about some ways we can help further develop GoMission.Church but also encouraged us as we continue to prepare to move to Argentina.

One major highlight from the conference was from a session led by a pastor from  Eastern Germany, who said that you have to “start before you’re ready” when it comes to missions and church planting. He shared stories about how God gave him just enough to get started but how he had to wait for the provision to get through! We felt encouraged to keep stepping out in faith before we have all the answers, if we feel God is speaking and the people around us are affirming that it’s God speaking! It was such a great time to connect with people doing similar work that we are hoping to do in Argentina and hear testimonies of God drawing people to himself!

One of Jared’s main roles in GoMission.Church is auditing all of our internal documents and processes, helping to organize and unify language, communications, and vision. We have had fun going over the vision for GoMission and strengthening how we communicate this internally as well as with missionaries and pastors! Our meetings lately have looked like rolling out the big white board, Meghan writing out notes or concepts, Pastor Andy and Jared collaborating to ground all that we do in scripture, many ideas written down to save for later, and sometimes tacos! We are really enjoying working as a team along with Pastor Andy to further develop GoMission.Church, to better serve the churches in our city, missionaries, and ultimately God’s kingdom!

Along with our work at GoMission, we are still taking time to pray about moving Argentina and for Argentina! Our morning prayer times with our church are still going strong, with a main topic being prayer for open doors for fruitful ministry at Fresno State, for our church to participate in. We have made it into our 10th week of the Guys/Girls “New Life” Groups, and are seeing our young adults press into more of what God has for them. This past Sunday we got to lead worship together for the first time at our church, which was very sweet and made us even more excited to grow in leading worship together! 

• - Continued discernment as we work on developing GoMission.Church and preparing things for the people after us!

• - Discernment and wisdom in preparations for moving to Argentina and ideas on how to better connect our church here with the churches there!

• - For our Guys/Girls “New Life” Groups, that the Lord would continue to draw them deeper and that they would answer His call!