Sword & Trowel 2020: Issue 1


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(1) Sunday morning congregation. (2) Pablo and Nathaly with Pedro Pablo and Matias. (3) Exterior of rented premises (brown wooden-fronted building).


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provide a good and stable base for the church for some years to come.


Constituting a church


The congregation is predomi- nantly younger in age, some having backgrounds in various Pentecostal churches. Visitors are coming in on most Sundays due to personal invita- tion and local witness. Fifteen people are currently prepar- ing to be received into membership, possibly in mid-January 2020. Before this, a number of candidates will be baptised in the church’s first bap- tismal service, including four of the twelve people who have been saved during these first four years. Formal


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membership will be the point of the establishment of the church, followed by the calling of the pastor by the new members. The church will also adopt a constitution. A more regular obser- vance of the Lord’s Supper will also begin. There is freedom of assembly in Chile, and outdoor preaching and other witness, including door-to-door visitation, are all possible.


Local witness and Sunday School


On Saturdays, up to eight people go out in pairs to conduct door-to-door witness in areas close to the centre. On Sunday afternoons, before the evening evangelistic service, street witness is undertaken, mostly in the


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