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We have just returned from anexciting week of ministry inVilla
Alemana, Chile, where wewere invited because of Pastor Leo Castros
relationship withseveral pastors. (Leo grew upin Chile.) After 15
hours of travel, we landed in Santiago,then drove 2 hours to
partici-pate in a unity prayer breakfast(held weekly) with the
pastors
from the 26 churches of differ-ent denominations who hadinvited
us. They choose to fo-cus on their desire to see their churches
grow in spiritual ma-turity, rather than on doctrinalissues that
could divide them.
The FIVE-DAY TRAIN-ING was for four hours
each evening, beginningwith an hour general ses-sion, followed
by four breakout sessions, led by each of
the DTI teammembers. Wedrilled deeper intothe material,
facili-tating, and an-swering questionsallowing for as-similation
of theconcepts. We hadto limit the number of attendees to100.
DAILY RADIO BROADCAST : We were privileged to beinterviewed on
Radio Vida Nueva FM, on Monday, whichled to our sharing the DTI
concepts for an hour each daythe rest of the week.The four of us
sharedeach day, knowing thatmany of our eveningattendees would
belistening, as well asfriends in the US, sincethe program was
alsostreamed live via theinternet.
WE EXTENDED OUR AVAILABILITY toshare / preach in addition to the
radiobroadcast and the evening sessions, andhad eight other
opportunities including aSaturday evening youth service Pablo
con-ducted for 180 college and high school-ageyoung people.
Chile Train The Trainers Workshop April, 2010
M AY 2010 N EWSLETTER
DISCIPLER TRAINING INTL.
Chile Update
VillaAlemana
Chile DTI Training Team... !" Leo Castro, Summit Iglesia,
Sparks, NV !" Pablo Garcia, Link Ministries, Ensenada, Mexico !"
Frank Meitz, Discipler Training International, Reno, NV !" Rosario
Quinez, Summit Iglesia, Sparks, NV
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DISCIPLER TRAINING INTL.
Art & Toni BarkleyP.O. Box 71312
Reno, NV 89570 USA E-mail: [email protected]
Frank MeitzDirector of Operations
E-mail: [email protected]
Pastor Jimmy (our contact / host inChile) has a niece,
Christine, who livedin Canada for five years, and trans-lated for
Frank.
On the last night Christine shared thatshe had always wondered
why manybelievers lose their passion for theLord and fall away from
church or re-
sume old habits, wandering in the spiritual desert. Shenow
recognizes the strong need for personal disciple-ship, which would
help them grow more quickly to adeeper level of spiritual maturity,
in addition to havingstrong Biblical knowledge.
Pastor Ivan (our other host pastor)has a Ministryhome for
visitingmissionaries and
pastors. We wereblessed to stay inthis beautiful housea little
ways from town, so it was peaceful and private,giving the four of
us opportunities to enjoy time with the
Lord on walks amid thebeautiful vegetation.
The Chilean people werevery warm and gracioushosts, always
serving uswonderful meals evenat 11pm, after our train-ing sessions
were done.
RESULTS?
As we were leaving on Sunday evening, both Jimmyand Ivan shared
that a number of the churches involvedin the workshop had already
begun to disciple.!" One lady who attended is a schoolteacher had
al-
ready begun to disciple three other Christian womenshe works
with during their lunch break using theDTI material.
!" Another church has begun a small group with theleaders who
attended the workshop. They are re-viewing the Phase 1 material,
and then plan to begindiscipling newer believers in their
church.
Pablo and Martha Garcia, missionaries in Ensenada,Mexico, have
become very good friends since we didour first training at La Gran
Comisin in 2006. Sincethen Frank has worked and taught with Pablo
several
different times, including last year in Cuba. Pabloshared that
he believed this was the most effectiveteaching that we have done.
We attribute that percep-tion to a couple things: 1) We are
continually improving,implementing lessons learned, but most
importantly 2)God had prepared the hearts of the people in Chile
who
had been praying aboutthe discipleship processwe were to bring
tothem.
It was truly a delight tosee the growth duringthe week in the
newestmember of the DTITraining Team, Rosario .He was in the
trainingwe did two years ago at Summit Iglesia in Reno. TheLord
convicted him to start discipling, leading him to in-vite his
friends, coworkers and neighbors to his homeweekly to share the
Gospel, and invite them to church,leading to his discipling some of
them. During his
breakout group time inChile, he shared his ownstory, giving them
a visionfor how to implement thespiritual parenting model,even
though many of them are not pastors. Hewas a wonderful additionto
our teaching team.
Please pray for:!" The people and churches in Villa Alemana!"
The four of us (Leo, Rosario, Pablo, Frank)!" The upcoming trip to
Cuba in June.
!" Seven TTT trainers will be going.!" Pray for God to work
another miracle to get
the DTI manuals into Cuba again!" Pray for finances, as
donations are needed
to send Pastors to the conference ($20/each for 200 for food,
lodging, and books).
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