Chile Challenge Introduction

Project to rebuild the mission church at Glorias Navales, Vina Del Mar, Chile

The project is to rebuild the mission church at Glorias Navales and is part of a whole project to rebuild the chapel, vicarage and Sunday school rooms. Glorias Navales was a total shantytown that is gradually 'developing'. Half the inhabitants are un-employed or semi-employed.

Curches involved are:
 -  San Pedro, Vina Del Mar
 -  St John the Baptist, Burscough
 -  The mission in Glorias Navales

Inspiration For The Project

 -  Neil' sabbatical in 2000 and vision for how we could be involved
 -  Terry and Pancha's visit to St John's
 -  S.A.M.S. conference
 -  Rob Powell coming to Burscough for the SAMS evening
 -  St John's, Widnes trip and visit to Burscough
 -  St John's growing heart for mission

Resourcing the rebuild

San Pedro and St John's have provided the materials and the local people at Glorias Navales are building the church.

Work has progressed well and Terry is providing us regular updates of the progress which we communicate in church and display on our mission board.

The Whole of St John's is Part of the Challenge

The Chile Challenge team is a broad cross-section of our church:
 - People unable to go on the trip providing materials and financial support.
 - Mission board shows our links with Laos, Peru, Chile, Belarus, Brazil, France
 - Altar cloth and curtains made
 - Gifts sent include Children's books, bibles, tea, tools, clothes

What we hope to achieve

 - We hope to help where we can.
 - The visit will change us as a team
 - Hopefully will change the church at St John's:

Next year our church maturity courses cover mission and God is already preparing us with experiences like this

The Chile Challenge Team

The Chile Challenge team is a broad cross-section of our church:
 - The team is 24 people
 - Age ranges from Conor who's 3 years upwards
 - Wide range of skills and experience
 - Basically ready and willing to do anything needed.

What will we do?

A detailed itinerary can be found here. In summary:
 - We arrive in Santiago on Monday August 18th and initially stay at a Retreat Centre (we'll move to family lodging for the weekend).
 - Tuesday we travel to Glorias Navales to start work, where we'll help build the chapel.
 - Itinerary already prepared for, which will mix work and some sight seeing.
 - On the Sunday we'll attend the opening of the new chapel.
 - We'll help in a Mission week which with Alf Cooper and team from Santiago
 - At the end we fly to Paraguay where we'll see:
 - Presentation of Anglican church in Paraguay
 - Iguazu falls

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