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Sword & Trowel 2016: Issue 2 O


N 13th January 2016 the fi rst service of


Temuco Reformed Baptist Church was held in a home. It was a prayer meeting and three people were present – Pablo Huircapán, his wife Nathaly and another lady. Others have since joined them and they are now meeting in hired prem- ises, with an average attendance of twelve people. They have a morning teaching service and an evening evangelistic service each Sunday and a midweek Bible study. The Lord has blessed with new people coming almost every week to the evangelistic service through the personal invitations of the regular attendees. A lady who was studying the doctrines of grace at


The main square in Temuco


home discovered their website (www.ibrtemuco.cl) and now attends each week. Temuco is the fourth largest city in Chile with a population of about 250,000. It is 400 miles south of the capital, Santiago. Pablo comes from an old-style Pen- tecostal background (non-charismatic) and is an engineer by profession. In 2011 he visited London and searched for a church. He discovered a large Spanish-speaking church meeting in a sports centre at the Elephant & Castle. However, he was unhappy with the charismatic teaching and as he was leaving he saw the Tabernacle, came inside and began to attend services. He writes, ‘I had an


Left: a service, and regular attend- ers; below: evangelistic booklets


page 16 Church Planting in Chile


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