The latest updates & prayer needs from our community in Buenos Aires…
1) WMF Gathering – This July our entire WMF community of North American staff will come together in Nebraska for a tri-annual Gathering to deepen relationships with one another, retreat together, and support one another through various meetings, discussions, reflections and prayer. This [...]
WMF staff and Servant Team attended a national gathering held by Red del Camino, a Latin American network of churches and organizations committed to holistic ministry.
The first WMF Argentina Servant Team concluded their service on Dec. 15.
WMF community and its Argentine partners hosted a Christmas party for the youth.
WMF staff along with Iglesia Evangelica Bautista [...]
April 2010
“But as you come, come as a new-paradigm missionary. Come as a people who seek to develop bridges of healthy interdependence. Come as a people who build reciprocity into the task of missions. Come as a people who approach the cultures of the world with respect and with humility. Come as [...]
End of Summer & Back to School – Summer is winding down quickly. People are returning from vacations and kids are heading back to school this week. Please pray for our WMF kids, Cora & Amani Forcatto and Jordan Dean, as they begin a new year of preschool and primary school. We had some good [...]
The Spirituality of Slippin’-n-Sliddin’ at our recent community retreat in January.
This Advent Christine Sine is hosting a blog series, “What are we waiting for this Advent?” on her blog GodSpace. Here is my reflection on Advent in the Southern Hemisphere. For the entire series click here.
Advent in the Southern Hemisphere:
Actively Waiting in Newness of Life
This Advent and Christmas season will be my first in the [...]
This Sunday night, November 29, our WMF community will gather with our Argentine partners to light the first candle of Advent, the candle of hope. Our liturgy will include worship, reflection, Lectio Divina and prayer. Postured with hope, peace, joy and love, our time will also include lighting candles around the Advent wreath in a [...]
Recently, our Buenos Aires community has been seeking to more deeply understand what we mean by spirituality and its expression in our daily lives. (See Walter Forcatto’s blog post from July 17.) Often our understanding of spiritual practices is limited to those disciplines of silence, solitude, prayer, and meditation. But spirituality and spiritual practices are [...]
“Hace frio” is a daily greeting these days….”it’s cold!” These past couple of weeks have been the coldest this winter so far. The days of shorts and flip flops are a distant memory lately. Probably hard to imagine for those of you up in the Northern Hemisphere hot days of summer. Many nights have dropped [...]
For the past several months we have been discussing together the meaning of covenant and creating a covenant framework to put into practice in community. As a result of this process we realized the need to express our corporate spirituality that would give meaning and depth to our covenant with one another. The following statement [...]