Apr
28, ’20
Our Youth group at the mission includes “young people” of all ages.
This meeting inculded homemade PIZZA!
And a game of charades!
Fellowship, Bible Study, eating and laughing…God’s medicine for the soul!
Apr
27, ’20
In January, Rev. Cristian Rautenberg preached one last time at our mission on Las Nevadas St. in Providencia.
Everyone enjoyed fellowship in the backyard afterwards…
We will all miss Ethel and the two Rautenberg boys, Mateo and Nata, as well!
But this little guy, Luis David, son of immigrants Cesar & Naylu will be sticking around a bit more…
Apr
25, ’20
About 2 hours outside of Santiago, a new mission plant has been started in the town of Los Andes.
Members from “La Cruz de Cristo” Lutheran church in La Florida accompany the brothers & sisters in their house-church services.
Pastor Cristian has been teaching the catechism and this day was a very important moment…
We celebrated the baptism of Patricio…
And the confirmation of 5 new people!
Pastors Crisitan and James with Vicar Vladimir and some of the members of the mission Los Andes.
Dec
11, ’19
BEHIND THAT CURVED WHITE AND BLACK WALL (above) IS THE NEW MISSION PROVIDENCIA!
Front walkway – BEFORE and AFTER!
The entrance to the house…before AND AFTER!
The living room and parquet floors, painted walls and trim…
BEFORE…
AND AFTER!
Many have scrubbed and cleaned to make this abandoned home our new MISSION HOME!
The backyard was full of junk…
Eventually, we will build a chapel here…
More junk to be cleaned up in another backyard area….
The garage will be our first worship area…and it needed a LOT of WORK!
ALMOST READY TO FILL THIS SPACE WITH PRAISE & WORSHIP!
Jun
11, ’19
May
17, ’18
When we moved into our new rental house, I was curious about a small tree planted in a wooden barrel planter on our front patio. As spring came along (that’s October in Chile), small white flowers appeared amongst the silvery green leaves. I began to wonder if possibly it was an olive tree.
In January (summer!) I could see the small “fruits” forming and was quite sure my guess was correct. By about March they were looking like plumped mini-green olives. Then they slowly started changing color.
Finally, at the end of April (autumn) when they looked like large blueberries, I decided to pick them. After some research, I discovered there is a whole process for “curing” the olives. This is necessary due to a natura,l extremely bitter flavor.
So, I washed the fruits, scored the skins, and put them to soak in salt water. We left them this way, changing the water every day, for 10 days. Then we rinsed them again and put them in a jar with wine vinegar and salt water.
I’m looking forward to tasting them after about 6 weeks to see if the experiment was worth it! From one small tree I have one jar of olives. To make this work, I may have to purchase an orchard!
Jan
27, ’18
PASTOR CRISTIAN SPEAKING AT OPENING DEVOTION
ONE OF OUR STUDENTS, SERGIO, WITH HIS PARENTS
MANDY RIQUELME, PSYCHOLOGIST AND DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER
OUR OLDEST CLIENT, SEÑOR NELSON
MATEO PARTICIPATES IN THERAPY SESSIONS
THE STUDENTS AT THE CENTER HAVE A COOKING CLASS…
…ON COOKING WITH FIGS!
FROM OUR FIG TREE
(THE FIG TREE DURING THE WINTER)
SELECTING AND CLEANING THE FIGS.
GRINDING THE FIGS…
PASTOR CRISTIAN RAUTENBERG WITH THE STAFF…
MUSIC THERAPY CLASS WITH LIISA
OUR TEAM OF TEACHERS AND THERAPISTS
Jan
22, ’18
We have Good News to tell!
Each letter of the alphabet helps tell the story of Christmas…
Cesar narrates the Christmas program….
“King Mateo” is proud to hold his “G”!
Nata displays his “H”..
Venezuelan immigrants singing “aguinaldos”, or Venezuelan-style Christmas songs.
Lutheran youth from Santiago, with students from our Rehab Center for people with handicaps…
presented a skit about what the true meaning of Christmas is!
Christmas is JESUS!!!
The Nativity
May
23, ’17
Apr
3, ’17
Pastor Cristian’s sons are soooo excited to be riding almost “shotgun”!
Pastor Cristian & Ethel
The send off from Santiago, Chile! Our group of youth, pastors & their familes…
The beautiful country side
between Chile and Argentina
The Argentine flag welcomes us!
Many many kilometers of God’s beautiful creation…
This is the plan…
Waiting to cross into Brazil…
A LOOOOoooong wait!
But everyone had a great attitude while riding hours and hours on the bus!
We played cards… and hat toss… anything!!
Finally…53 hours later we arrive at the Youth Gathering in Santa Catarina, Brazil!
We made it just in time for the opening ceremony…
The count down!
And the show began!!!
Connie, Omar, Fernanda, Sebastian and Valentina bring in the flag of Chile!
“Una huasa chilena” with her pololo! A typical chilean country girl with her boyfriend.
We did LOTS OF WALKING at the 6 day event….
A drank lots of “terere”…cold tea shared from one cup.
And were encouraged at this HUGE gathering of Lutherans!
Celebrating 500 years of the Reformation!
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