Expecting a visit from Honduras missionaries
On Sunday, October 1, 2023, Mike & Kris Bridges will be visiting Southside from Corquín, Honduras.
Southside will be hosting a fellowship meal after worship services to enable everyone to enjoy each other’s company and hear about the Lord’s work in Honduras.
Southside members who wish to attend, should click this link to let the mission committee know so we can prepare enough food to feed everyone.
Celebrating Chilé Independence Day
Members of the Iglesía del Señor en Chillán gather to celebrate Independence Day in Chilé, September 18.
Chillán church buys land
Church of Christ in Chillán, Chilé, purchases land as first step to having it’s own place to meet and worship.
Southside-supported evangelist Luis Zepeda Mir reports that the congregation he serves in Chillán, a city about four-and-a-half hours south of Santiago, has purchased land in the urban radius as the first step in constructing a place of its own for the church to meet.
Translation of Facebook post: “All the glory to the Lord! There were many years of sweat, tears, difficulties, of working and working, of saving, but God has been faithful and we were able to fulfill this first dream, we already have our land! Now to fight for the next stages, to get up and build! God is with us! And he will give us the strength and resources to be able to complete this project so that the blessing of God continues to flow in Chillán, its surroundings and throughout South Chilé. Busy times ahead! But there will also be times of blessing and of breakthrough and conquest.”
The land is 14 meters wide by 29 meters deep. The church was able to purchase the land with money saved for this purpose.
Pedro Sanchez’s report for September
This just in from Pedro Sanchez, an evangelist that Southside supports in Chile.
SEPTEMBER 2023
Dear Brothers, This month was of great joy in our Lord Jesus Christ with our Mexican Brothers!
My companion on this trip was Masaru Guzman, Evangelist of the Church of Los Nogales, Santiago de Chile. Masaru was each city teaching the book of Titus with the purpose of establishing the government of God in the Churches of Christ. He also studied with many young people about Titu’s book, teaching them how to live youth in a prudent way.
Read more about the trip and other news from Pedro in the report below.
Right Steps sends plea for support
An update from the board of Right Steps, Inc., which oversees the work of Susana Homes in Nigeria, one of the mission areas supported by Southside members.
Due to environmental and safety concerns, Right Steps Inc. made the decision to relocate many of the younger children at Susana Homes to a rented house in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Additionally, Right Steps has successfully built a new campus for the Right Steps Christian School closer to the village, which has been thriving.
At this time, Right Steps plans to maintain both the Port Harcourt residence and the new school campus. A number of children continue to reside at the original Susana Homes campus, where agricultural projects remain ongoing.
Launch of new educational institute
Now the Right Steps board is announcing a new educational initiative that will use the facilities of the Right Steps Christian School to create the Right Steps Institute of Management and Technology – education at the junior college level, with the aspiration of evolving into a full-fledged four-year degree-granting institution in the future.
This institute will provide educational paths in:
- child care
- computer technology
- medical technician training
- ministry
Financial support is essential. Right Steps is seeking startup funds of approximately $7,000 USD per month. These funds will cover instructor and staff salaries, generator fuel, upkeep expenses and essential supplies.
In addition, Right Steps is seeking your assistance to secure necessary supplies for the institute.
Please read the letter below for a list of needs, and consider a financial donation as well to make the Right Steps Institute of Management and Technology a reality.
To donate to the creation of the Right Steps Institute of Management and Technology
Send a check to Right Steps, Inc. with the word “Institute” in the memo line. Mail it to Right Steps, Inc., P.O. Box 458, Snellville, GA 30078. Read the letter above for more information.
Kay Price and Terence Proctor visit Susana Homes
Kay Price (Auntie Kay) and Terence Proctor landed in Nigeria early last week for their annual trip to see Mama Chi and the children at Susana Homes. From being met by a grateful Chi, to being met by the children with lots of hugs and tears, to the children’s eager anticipation, to getting a medical checkup from Auntie Kay, the trip got underway with an emotional bang!!
All praise to God for their safe trip and the love that is being spread around! May their second week be as full of blessings as the first!!
Report from Pablo & Laura Sanchez family
These last two months have been action pact for our family with travel to La Serena a city 6 hours north of Santiago working with mission Chile to help support our brothers and sisters in the La Serena Church of Christ and a short term mission campaign they held with one of their supporting congregations as well as my trip to Ecuador and Columbia which I got back from last week.
Read the report for more information.
Men’s conference in Chilé
Representatives of 14 congregations attend annual men’s conference in Santiago, Chilé.
On July 1, the second national men’s conference was held in Chilé. It was held at the Providencia church of Christ in central Santiago.
Representatives from 14 congregations attended:
- North: Antofagasta, Los Andes
- Central/Santiago: Providencia, Cordillera, La Villa, Oscar Bonilla, Maipu, Nueva de Valedz, La Florida and Nogales
- Coast: Viña del Mar
- South: Rancagua, Chillán, Chiguayante
- Ecuador: Ibarra
Please review Pedro’s newsletter for photos and additional details about the work there.
May report from Croatia youth ministry
We are so thankful that our teens want to share their lives with us and are faithful in coming to our youth meetings. This school year, more than ever before, we are developing a “critical mass” of these teens, as they consistently are involved. At one of the meetings this month, we examined what the world says love is, compared to what God’s Word says love is, as well as what God has to say about how we know what love is.
Please pray for our group, their spiritual growth, and desire to follow Jesus with their lives.
Read the full May report:
Southside Church of Christ World Missions 