June – What can I say about June – It felt like a month full of visits to the immigration office. Their hours are 8am until 1pm and there were a couple of days that I spent from 8am until 1pm there. Always a new piece of paperwork needed, or something else translated and certified. Redoing paperwork or signing additional paperwork due to my name being misspelled (by Argentine Ministry of Religious Affairs and also Immigration), three times more explaining and providing documents because my last name is Max’s and not my father’s, and of course the ‘where’s Max’ question. But finally, POR FIN, they have everything they could possibly need!!! I have paperwork to go with my passport so I can travel! I expect to receive my residency visa and DNI by mid September!!!! Betel continues to move forward in ministry. They now have a Leadership Team that meets monthly. They have a vision and a mission. They are studying and learning the Covenant Affirmations. They are learning their identity. The daily groups, studies, prayer meetings and services continue of course. One on one English has been a blessing and I am grateful to be able to share my administration skills as well. I am excited to start participating even more with the other churches. Mission de Betel: Por […]

These four words have a whole new meaning, a whole new level of intensity to them for me. Since September I have been taught; no, am being taught, what they mean, how they now look and how my life is now being transformed by these words. Perhaps a future writing. Every day, every moment, I now live a life of complete and total surrender.  I no longer have all the details of this new life figured out and the ducks are definitely not in a row.  Normally, for myself, as soon as there is a door or window cracking open, my mind races and starts efficiently listing out all the ‘to do’s’ that will need to be done. Yes, even before the door is opened all the way the brain has the next steps in place.  Can anybody relate?  I am learning to wait for the door to be opened, not pushing it open or squeezing through when it’s only ajar, but fully open; then… to step through – faith – without a ‘to do’ list in place; and that’s ok.  I am learning to trust that what God has for me in the future is far greater than anything I could imagine.  Even if I don’t agree or like the fact that Max is not a physical part of […]