On June 3-12, we took an eleven member team from San Antonio to the province of Santiago del Estero, Argentina.  This was my 13th mission team to Argentina, and my fifth in the Santiago del Estero province.  We count it an honor to work with pastor, Gabriel Cejas, our regional leader in the province.  He was worked for years with country leader, Eduardo Buldain, and the E3 country leadership in setting a long term "church planting" vision for his province.  This year we assisted two churches of which we had previously been privileged to help establish.  It was a great joy to work with pastors David Navarro and Fabian Santillan.  It has been a joy working alongside both of them in past years, planting churches in Santiago del Estero and Clodimira.  This year was the first "granddaughter" church plants with Fabian and David.  Our team started the week by participating on Sunday in three services.  Firstly, we went to participate in a house church dedication with Pastor David and gathered in groups to pray over the barrio we were to work in during the week.  That evening we drove out to Clodimira to join pastor Fabian.  During the evening we prayerwalked the downtown Clodimira area (where a new church was being planted), worshipped with the church, and trained the workers in how to lead an "I am Second" small group discipleship meeting.  
   During the week our team would sub-divide into two groups for the day of ministry.  Teams went door to door, to businesses and to schools, sharing the good news of Christ and discipling the new believers.  We saw two new churches begin that week; one in the downtown area of Clodimira and one in the home of Gringa in Villa Borges.  It was a joy to work alongside the 55 nationals who participated in church planting on the two sites.  It also was wonderful to see churches from Tucaman send a team to partipate in the church planting campaign.  We also were thrilled to work with several Baptist missionaries, who participated in the church planting campaign.  During the week the team personally shared the gospel with 340 men, women, and children.  It was a joy to see 265 place their faith in Jesus Christ as their savior.  During the week we also went back and discipled 85 of the new believers, through one on one and small group discipleship meetings.  Many church members grew in leadership and by the end of the week many of the church members (and even a few new believers) were leading others in discipleship.  Janelle, told me that when Gringa was asked to lead her first small group discipleship study, she replied, "Why not, there is a first time for everything!".