Chile

United World Mission was invited to partner together in the late 1990's to further a national initiative of church planting. Our Team believes United World Mission can make a significant impact in Chile toward reaching that goal of 1000 churches by 2010. We also plan on working with youth and youth workers in Chile. We have visited with a number of young people who have shown incredible enthusiasm and energy that can be directed toward church planting goals in outreach, evangelism and prayer. They will be the next generation of church planters, if this vision is held up before them.

United World Mission is actively seeking additional cross-cultural workers and partnerships to complete needed projects, which will propel national initiatives forward among the many under-reached areas of the country.

Jerry & Jan

I was an electrical engineer and Jan was a teacher and housewife. We desired to serve the Lord in a more full time position and met United World Mission in March 2000. The Lord had prepared us to work in Latin America, but we didn't know where until God opened the door to work in Chile. He put the Mapuche people in our hearts as we began to research Chile. The Mapuches are a Native American people who have a very small number of Christians and churches that are still too weak to evangelize their own people. Their desire is to see a church planted in every village, so that the Mapuche church can evangelize and disciple their own people.

Chad & Ruthanne

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Ruthanne and I have been called to God’s missionary journey for several years.   Ruthanne started her journey at the age of 13 with the first of many cross cultural experiences.  We took the ‘Perspectives on the World Christian Movement’ class which helped clarify our understanding of God’s purpose for the nations. Through this exposure and Ruthanne’s prior missionary experiences, we knew that cross-cultural ministries would be a part of our future.

Shortly after getting married, Ruthanne and I took a short-term mission trip to Sierra Leone, West Africa. Here, Ruthanne had previously spent a year training nurses at a mission hospital. During this trip, we continued to support the missionaries with our professional skills (nursing and computers).   After this experience, we felt God’s confirmation on our lives towards a cross-cultural ministry.

Even though we had the desire, it still took several years and three kids later to see our dream fulfilled.  We are now ministering among the Mapuche people of Chile.  The Mapuche are an indigenous people with a strong tie to animism.   It is here among the Mapuche that God has called us to facilitate a church planting movement.  By God’s grace and mercy, we pray that He will use us to fulfill His purpose.   May we seek His agenda and not our own!