The Abegg Love Letters

To those who have been called, who are loved by God the Father and kept by Jesus Christ; mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance. -Jude 1:1

As Missionaries with United World Mission, we serve in Latin America to provide support & training to missionaries on the field. We work with Latin Partner Ministries that focus on everything from theological education to medical care, from children’s homes to retirement homes. Our goal is to come along side organizations & amplify their impact for good and the Gospel.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Help on the way

STOP!

That’s what I had to tell myself as I got into the office this AM and dove right into e-mails, phone messages and ministry agreements. I’m saying this because I’ve wanted to provide some updates for the past three weeks as to what’s going on at Latin America Mission and with the Abegg family, but simply haven’t had the chance. So, my goal is to take a few minutes every AM and post at least one update… so for today lets start easy, I’ve got help on the way!!!

Since I stepped in to coordinate the ministries department at Latin America Mission, it’s been obvious that one person cannot manage everything. LAM has just under 100 missionary “units” (families or individuals) on the field, nearly as many active "ministry partners" (Latin ministries we work with through our missionaries or in various projects) and over 250 partner ministries that are awaiting missionaries, projects or assistance in some form. What this means is that my previous assignment in assisting associate ministries to Cuba has expanded to all of Latin America, Spain and even a few ministries in the US. It’s felt like swimming against the current since in order to move forward (develop new partnerships, match new missionaries to their assignments and weigh in on possible projects) I first have to make sure that the daily needs of missionaries and ministries are covered. At one point last week my e-mail in box toped 250 and that doesn't include any spam!

So where does the help come in? Ms. Heather Braden is a missionary “appointee” (accepted as a missionary and preparing to deploy once all her support is raised) headed for El Salvador.

She will be joining the ministries department starting Thursday and has committed to helping for the next 6 months as she works on her Spanish, completes her support raising and prepares for “deployment”. Heather is an answer to many prayers and given all the work involved in my current position, will help keep me sane (although some say it’s too late). Please keep Heather in your prayers as well as the whole minisries department as we seek to help the hundreds of partner ministries we partner with throughout Latin America.

Click the link to follow Heather’s blog which includes my letter to some of her supporting churches.

God bless!