Talca Trip in late October

Plans for another Talca Trip are tentatively set for late October. Thi swill be a time to continue building our partnership and relationships as well as assist with the construction. More info to come including a meeting in early August. For more info contact Gerry Socha at sochagk@earthlink.net.

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Email from Tomas

Dear Jeff, friend and brother in Christ, I'm glad to know that we have with you, I apologize for not communicating the time, I have addressed some concerns and difficulties I have faced, such as unexpected delays in building the temple, lack of skilled labor for welding of the structure and others, which have been solved, as well as personal difficulties related to the labor and cost, I think your prayers have been important, and God has been faithful. As for the construction project, we have concluded the structural assembly of the first level and you will begin this week with the second level, has built part of the altar and the baptistery, we have worked hard and with God's help we have had beautiful achievements, construction equipment is increasingly motivated and united, enjoying the progress we have achieved. The names of the construction team are: - Thomas Aburto (constructor) - Raul Aedo (master chief) - Mauricio Rojas (welder auction) - Eugenio Molina (cutter to oxygen) -Antonio Gatica (soldering assembly) -Jose Meza (assistant) -Luis Tapia (assistant) -Patrick Fuentes (assistant) -Gonzalo Belsano (assistant) I hope I can be praying for this team and others to be added, and God has helped us rid of accidents at work, we thank God for it every morning. This is great news to know that they can return to Chile, I like a lot of power to work together again, have been very important to us, thanks, have you thought about a date?, We are thinking may be in September or October this year, if you can. We are sending the information to receive the support given to AMICO, we hope to have it soon. We thank God and you for the effort and the help you have given us. I created a group on facebook "CONSTRUCTION ACYM TALCA 1, 2012" for you visit there you will find photos. I wish that God bless you with all your family. Greetings to Partor David and the entire congregation. A big hug.!!

Talca Update

The other day I had a great conversation with Felipe from Talca. It was kind of funny as we began the conversation. I was sitting in an air-conditioned house with outside temps over 100 degrees and he was in his home with a jacket on and rain could be heard outside with 40 degree temps. So it is when you have friends in the Southern Hemisphere. All is well there. They continue to plug away at the construction progress. It has been slow and difficult for two main reasons--weather and competition. Right now it is the rainy season with low temperatures. Both of these have combined to make working on a steel frame difficult. Also, there is a tremendous amount of construction going on in Talca after the earthquake of 2010. They are building a new hospital, new homes, new malls, etc. The Talca church has to compete with all this construction going on and they seem to be a low priority. Not in God's eyes. Thru His help and patience provided by Him, they will see this project to completion. Felipe shared of a recent student ministry retreat to an outlying area. The students at the Talca church along with similar aged people from the other Alliance church in Talca and from the rural church got together for a tremendous weekend retreat recently. Lives were changed and they have been energized to serve God and His Kingdom. Amen!! We discussed a future trip to Talca to continue to strengthen our partnership and to help them with the construction some more. More to come on this soon.