News from Chile, Pichilemu, Wallace, Tina & family Dec 2007 / Jan 2008
On September 11th we moved into our finished house. We popped open a bottle of champagne, had a barbeque for our friends and gave God thanks. The house itself went up in 3 months but we like to think the real foundations were laid in the UK through seven years of patience, perseverance and faith through some tough times!! We feel very at home, more settled and grateful for a successful build.
News from Chile, Pichilemu, Wallace, Tina & family Dec 2007 / Jan 2008
Greetings one and all!
Hello to all our friends and family residing north of the equatorial line. As you start squeezing de-icer into your cars and shaking the mothballs from your winter mitts we are just putting our heavy blankets in our loft, making sure we can fit into our swimming gear (more of a problem post Christmas dinner) and anticipating the summer madness here in Pichilemu. Just to add to the contrasts the clocks changed both in the UK and Chile so over a period of about 2 weeks we were five hours behind, then four and now three. I can’t keep up!
One amazing year in Chile
As well as building the house, we have spent the year working in different areas within YWAM such as with the DTS and counselling schools. The June DTS (there are currently 4 per year) we worked with only had 6 students whereas the September counselling school had 42 students from all over the world! We also took part in a leadership conference in October. We’ve done everything from cooking to teaching and interpreting and it’s been so much fun! Wallace has just begun a ministry called Art for Love which focuses on using the arts as a means to reach others. It’s in the early stages and so he is looking for full time workers to develop it further.
Pichilemu and football!
We both came to the conclusion this year that we really want to have one foot firmly in the community as well as YWAM. One natural outcome of this feeling is that Wallace AND Tina are now playing football regularly in local teams. Tina has rediscovered her passion from her junior school days! She isn’t exactly zooming round the pitch like she used to but we are hoping that with a bit more exercise and determination the gaps (for breath) between her movements on the pitch might lessen!
New Christians
Through Wallace’s no-nonsense, no-stop talking approach to the Gospel a number of people became Christians through the building of our house. Everywhere he went (from hardware stores, to builders’ yards to lumber yards) for three months he took the Gospel with him whether the people he met wanted to hear it or not! As a result the builder’s son (Fernando) and Fernando’s wife (Flori), children, sister-in-law and pretty much the whole extended family accepted Christ. We did begin to hold meetings in their house as local church didn’t seem like an option for them but it’s fizzled out lately. Also a lady travelling next to Tina a couple of weeks ago on her way back from Santiago gave her life to Christ. She is called Fanni and lives in the nearby town of Litueche.
Home front
Isabella is just about finished for the school year and now won’t go back till March. She’s made us proud (in a humble way!) with how she’s coped and blossomed in a local school with the foreign language and culture. Joshua spent three months in a Kindergarten for the mornings while Tina was working but we’ve just taken him out as we no longer believe it to be suitable. Talita, Wallace’s daughter will be turning 16 in January on the same day Joshua turns 3. Wallace has just left for three weeks to Brazil to visit his family and Talita who his hasn’t seen for 2 years. He’ll be back for Christmas though – or else!
Please pray for:
Ways to be effective in the community of Pichilemu, new strategies.
Fernando, Flori and family. That Christ would not just be a forgotten decision but that the Gospel would become real to them, that God would lay a foundation in their lives which would mark a difference in Pichilemu.
Workers for Art for Love
Safe travel for Wallace
We are so thankful for:
Our long awaited and beautiful house
The imminent visit of Tina’s mum and dad in January (yeh!!)
The lives of the people here in Pichilemu who have enriched ours so so much.
Expressions of friendship and support from family, friends and from our two supporting churches, Lichfield Wade Street and Bearwood Chapel in Birmingham.
We put up the Christmas tree the other day to make it feel like Christmas but it still doesn’t!! Any ideas about how to make Christmas seems like Christmas in a warm climate? Answers on a postcard and until the next time…
A wonderful Christmas and a Happy new Year!
News from Chile, Pichilemu, Wallace, Tina & family Dec 2007 / Jan 2008
Greetings one and all!
Hello to all our friends and family residing north of the equatorial line. As you start squeezing de-icer into your cars and shaking the mothballs from your winter mitts we are just putting our heavy blankets in our loft, making sure we can fit into our swimming gear (more of a problem post Christmas dinner) and anticipating the summer madness here in Pichilemu. Just to add to the contrasts the clocks changed both in the UK and Chile so over a period of about 2 weeks we were five hours behind, then four and now three. I can’t keep up!
One amazing year in Chile
As well as building the house, we have spent the year working in different areas within YWAM such as with the DTS and counselling schools. The June DTS (there are currently 4 per year) we worked with only had 6 students whereas the September counselling school had 42 students from all over the world! We also took part in a leadership conference in October. We’ve done everything from cooking to teaching and interpreting and it’s been so much fun! Wallace has just begun a ministry called Art for Love which focuses on using the arts as a means to reach others. It’s in the early stages and so he is looking for full time workers to develop it further.
Pichilemu and football!
We both came to the conclusion this year that we really want to have one foot firmly in the community as well as YWAM. One natural outcome of this feeling is that Wallace AND Tina are now playing football regularly in local teams. Tina has rediscovered her passion from her junior school days! She isn’t exactly zooming round the pitch like she used to but we are hoping that with a bit more exercise and determination the gaps (for breath) between her movements on the pitch might lessen!
New Christians
Through Wallace’s no-nonsense, no-stop talking approach to the Gospel a number of people became Christians through the building of our house. Everywhere he went (from hardware stores, to builders’ yards to lumber yards) for three months he took the Gospel with him whether the people he met wanted to hear it or not! As a result the builder’s son (Fernando) and Fernando’s wife (Flori), children, sister-in-law and pretty much the whole extended family accepted Christ. We did begin to hold meetings in their house as local church didn’t seem like an option for them but it’s fizzled out lately. Also a lady travelling next to Tina a couple of weeks ago on her way back from Santiago gave her life to Christ. She is called Fanni and lives in the nearby town of Litueche.
Home front
Isabella is just about finished for the school year and now won’t go back till March. She’s made us proud (in a humble way!) with how she’s coped and blossomed in a local school with the foreign language and culture. Joshua spent three months in a Kindergarten for the mornings while Tina was working but we’ve just taken him out as we no longer believe it to be suitable. Talita, Wallace’s daughter will be turning 16 in January on the same day Joshua turns 3. Wallace has just left for three weeks to Brazil to visit his family and Talita who his hasn’t seen for 2 years. He’ll be back for Christmas though – or else!
Please pray for:
Ways to be effective in the community of Pichilemu, new strategies.
Fernando, Flori and family. That Christ would not just be a forgotten decision but that the Gospel would become real to them, that God would lay a foundation in their lives which would mark a difference in Pichilemu.
Workers for Art for Love
Safe travel for Wallace
We are so thankful for:
Our long awaited and beautiful house
The imminent visit of Tina’s mum and dad in January (yeh!!)
The lives of the people here in Pichilemu who have enriched ours so so much.
Expressions of friendship and support from family, friends and from our two supporting churches, Lichfield Wade Street and Bearwood Chapel in Birmingham.
We put up the Christmas tree the other day to make it feel like Christmas but it still doesn’t!! Any ideas about how to make Christmas seems like Christmas in a warm climate? Answers on a postcard and until the next time…
A wonderful Christmas and a Happy new Year!
posted by Tina & Wallace at 3:46 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home