Well, the day of our departure has finally come. Thursday August 12th Cathy and I along with Don and Linda Gheen will be flying out of Charlotte, NC airport at 4:25 PM on Delta airlines, bound for Argentina. It has been a long time coming and still the last minute details are staggering. Please pray for all of us as we make the move to Salta, Argentina.
We arrive in Buenos Aires, Argentina around 8:00 AM on the 13th and will spend the day trying to arrange shipping for our excess baggage from there to our mission base in Resistencia. Then we take an overnight (12 hour) bus from B. A. to Resistencia arriving early in the morning of the 14th.
This just happens to be Cathy and my 39th anniversary. As I was praying the other day I realized that it will be the very first day of our 40th year together, and we will be embarking on an entirely new life season together. Deep in my heart I believe this will be the most fruitful season of our lives and we are excited to see what God has in store for us.
We will spend a couple of weeks in Resistencia where HHM has a mission base and ministry training school, meeting with students, staff, and our board of directors, before moving up to Salta, which is about 600 miles toward the northwest. I believe that this will happen around September 1st, because I plan on taking a quick trip up to Paraguay August 28 – 30 to visit our HHM missionaries and the River of God Church which they have planted.
Once we arrive in Salta we have arranged temporary housing but will immediately begin looking for 2 houses or apartments to rent that are very near to each other for the Gheens and Hills to dwell in. Please pray that we can be totally settled in before the end of September.
I will need to be free by October 1st to begin preparing to receive the arsenic filtration system which is scheduled to arrive by the end of October. There will be lots to coordinate and get prepared so that when the equipment arrives, the building, plumbing, permits, and paper work are all in order so that we can have the system installed and operational before Christmas. Pray, pray, pray without ceasing that this dream of the Body of Christ providing arsenic free drinking water for the 6,000 people who live in San Antonio de Los Cobres becomes a reality.
I am looking forward to the day when we can all drink the waters of life together in this town where they have been drinking waters laced with poison for generations. Selah!
Jesus said, “the water that I give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
I want to give thanks for, and express my gratitude toward all of you who have prayed and contributed so generously to make the waters of life project happen, and to enable Cathy and I to once again serve the Lord full-time in South America.
Please stay in touch.
My email is jim@hisheartmissions.org and my SKYPE name is jim-santiago
