An airplane's view of Montevideo, Uruguay

Population >1.2 million

UPDATE - February 28, 2008

Greetings to South Plains,

We hope this finds you all well. We are fine here, always looking for ways to grow the Lord’s work.  The meeting we recently had with Dan Coker went very well.  It was based on the Great Commission and intended to encourage and enable the members to get involved in evangelism.  We had several visitors who showed a lot of interest; our hope is that they will come into the church before too long.  Dan was here with his wife, Elise, whom we hadn’t seen in about 10 years.  It was very good to see them both after such a long time.  We are sending pictures of the meeting.  We would like to know how the work is going there and how the members are.  We would like very much to see you again.  We say goodbye, hoping that you continue to be blessed.

In Christian love,

Nestor and family

NEW PHOTOS!

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September 6, 2007

Greetings to our brethren of South Plains.  We hope all is going well with you there.  We are fine here in Montevideo, although we have had a very cold winter which has adversely affected us.  We have a lot of members sick, but fortunately without serious consequences.   We are working on more activities within the church to involve the youth.  We have sent photos of the young people preparing lunch for the whole congregation (see below).  I hope the pictures we sent to Keith Rogers for use at Evergreen camp were useful.

May God bless you all.

In Christ,

Nestor & family

NEW PHOTOS posted June 5, 2007

Nestor sent us these photos of recent skits and drama presentations by the El Chana congregation in Montevideo as an attempt to interest people in Montevideo in the church.

From South Plains Mission Moments, January 2007

Dear South Plains family,

It's a pleasure to write to you again and wish you a Happy New Year, may God bless you in it.  Things are well here in Montevideo, but please continue to pray for us that God might open new doors to us to preach the gospel and finalize the works we have planned.  Ronnie Rama and son have been here and we have sent some recipes and other things as well for use in the South Plains Mission Fare, hope they are useful.  With regard to special needs, we are considering the purchase of a digital camera and would like to get some material in Spanish that we could use with our young people.

The congregation is very thankful for your continued support of the work here in Montevideo.

With regard to my family, we want to personally thank you for your support of the work here on a daily basis, my God continue to bless all of you.  All the brethren of El Chana send greetings to all of you at South Plains and hope that God continues to reward you for your efforts, your dedication and support that you give to so many brethren; may He continue to bless you with numerical and spiritual growth.

This is the desire of all of us in Uruguay; may God bless you.

Néstor and family

From South Plains Mission Moments, October 2006

Dear Brethren,

Hope this finds all of you well.  Here in Uruguay we are just coming out what’s been a very hard winter, causing a lot of sickness among the church members.  Thanks to God, most of them are recuperating, but we continue to solicit your prayers, especially that we may all grow spiritually.  Last month one of our members, Nicolas Acuna, traveled to Ecuador where he will be studying.  En route he went through Lima, and made contact with Maximo and Gloria Collao, and stayed with them.  He was very well received by Maximo and his family.  We are very grateful for their hospitality.  I wanted to share this with you since we all are laboring for a common cause and bonded as Christian brothers.

Thank you for constantly thinking of us and your continued support of our efforts in the Kingdom.  Greetings to the church and may God continue to bless you.

Fraternalmente en Cristo (brotherly in Christ),

Nestor and family

From South Plains Mission Moments, September 2006

Dear Brethren,

It’s a pleasure to be in touch with you again to bring you up to date on the happenings in Montevideo.  We are trying to motivate the young people of El Chana.  Our first try at this has been some drama attempts with help from the brethren from Ecuador I mentioned last month.  The young people participated in this as well as some other members of the congregation.  It turned out very well with lots of participation and several outside visitors came as well, giving us the opportunity to continue reaching out to non-Christians.

We have tentative plans for a medical campaign next year with Jack Walker and his group.  We are contacting local doctors to determine if we can develop more definitive plans.  Thanks again for all your support and encouragement.  Greetings and blessings to all the church at South Plains.

Fraternalmente en Cristo (brotherly in Christ),

Nestor and family

From South Plains Mission Moments, August 2006

It’s a pleasure to send greetings from Montevideo to all of you at South Plains in Lubbock with an update on things here.  I have been having some health problems but seem to be recovering now.  I solicit your prayers on behalf of one of our twins, Yamila, who is suffering from convulsions.  She is undergoing medical tests and for the moment she appears to be alright, thanks be to God.  Please pray for her that all will turn out well.  Warren Roane and family, who continue to be interested in the work here in Montevideo, recently visited us.

Also we have had four brethren visiting us and helping with the work of the church.  They are a married couple; she is from Uruguay and he is from Argentina, and two sisters from Ecuador.  They are all studying in the Preachers Training School in Ecuador.

Oscar and Evelyn Machado send their greetings to South Plains. At the end of the month, I will be traveling to Chile and Paraguay in connection with the Bible Panorama Studies.

We have ten new members in our young peoples group.  Pray that this effort may continue to be successful.  Pray for the work in Uruguay.  May God continue to bless you and thanks for your continued support.

Que Dios los bendiga (That God blesses them),

Nestor and family

From South Plains Mission Moments, May 2006

Greetings to our South Plains brethren,

I’m very happy that our members, Oscar and Evylyn had the opportunity to visit you recently and pleased with their report of the growth you are experiencing.

Things are going well here; we had two baptisms on April 4 as a result of the home Bible studies we initiated this year.  Next Friday we begin another one.  One of our goals is to encourage the youth to strengthen each other and become more active as a group in the congregation.  We are progressing with the studies with ILEB and continue to have new students.  Brother Oscar will be in charge of the program coordinated by Dan Coker with Argentina, Paraguay, and Chile.

We are developing plans for a Medical Mission to Uruguay, which with the help of Jack Walker, we may be able to carry out next year.

I have been having difficulty with e-mail recently and have changed my e-mail address to nestorperaza77@yahoo.com -- Please use this for all correspondence in the future.

I say goodbye for now thanking you once more for your continued support. 

May God bless you all.

Nestor & family

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