Barb and Dwight serve in Chile with the Convention of Baptist Churches-Chilean Mission in ministries of economic and leadership development. Their vision is to see Mapuche churches that are strong in their identity, not ashamed of their culture, much less of the gospel, and so better equipped to do Christ-like ministry in the Mapuche way.

They write: This month we want to ask you to direct your prayers for us around eight aspects of God's mission here in Chile.   Pray for excellence, steadiness, creativity, courage, wisdom, energy, health and self-care, whatever the Lord brings to your heart.
  

• The Berea Institute:  We gather with the Mapuche churches twice a month, in two locations, to focus on ways of doing Bible study, improving reading comprehension and leadership practices that are appropriate for their cultural context.
• Wool project:  We now have a core group of women spinners whose work has met the high quality standards of the U. S. yarn distributor that is sponsoring this project.  Pray for more women able to meet the productivity levels and for the group of women to take ownership of this enterprise that can substantially improve their income.
• Girls' Clubs:  Four more new clubs started this month.  The women leaders of the clubs, mentors whom Barb is mentoring, have found their own leadership gifts strengthened and called out by this ministry.  They volunteer to go and provide orientation for the new clubs.
• Earthquake relief wrap-up:  Soon we will have used the last of the One Great Hour of Sharing (OGHS) funds ($150,000) ministering to the needs of some communities in temporary housing.  Pray for the new missions/preaching points in Iloca, Curepto, and Coronel that our churches have started because of this relief work. 
• New president of our partner convention:  The National Baptist Convention of Chile has a new president, Daniel Vivanco.   He has a strong vision for equipping churches for missions and service, and he even serves as a gifted teacher in the Berea Institute.
• Some Big Dreams that Need Lots of Prayer! Rainwater Collection project:  We received a three-year OGHS grant to develop a viable, replicable demonstration of how rainwater collection can supply irrigation/potable water needs on Mapuche farms where annual summer droughts leave them without water.  We have volunteer engineers from Colorado consulting with us.
• A New Dream:  a sustainable/productive Mapuche demonstration farm:  This is still in the "dream incubator" stage.  We want to help one Mapuche farm household discover ways to develop a sustainable productive small farm, beyond subsistence.
• Beekeeping:  Dwight is going to study and experiment with top-bar hives next season, (Spring in Chile is in September) which is a method that may be more sustainable for the rural Mapuche beekeeper, since it uses less equipment and more organic methods of disease control, while still generating income.

·        Pray for Barb and Dwight as the serve Christ among the Mapuche. Pray also for their children Jack (11) and Will (6).