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A Letter from César Carhuachín, mission co-worker serving in Chile

Summer 2024

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Dear brothers and sisters,

Greetings from Decatur!

We are in Mission Haven, Inc., in Decatur (GA), next to Columbia Theological Seminary. Mission Haven is an apartment complex for mission co-workers during their stay in the United States. We are still waiting for our Chilean visas. This process is taking more time than we expected. Even though we are a little anxious to receive our visas, we trust in God that we will receive them at the right time. In God’s time.

César, Dr. Daniel Godoy and Dr. Israel Flores

The Theological Community of Chile, our ecumenical partner where I will be teaching, is an ecumenical theological school formed by several churches such as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chile, the Lutheran Church in Chile, the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Chile, The Methodist Church of Chile, the Pentecostal Church Mission, the Apostolic Pentecostal Church Mission, the Christian Church Wings of Love and Power, and the Reformed Evangelical Church. The President, Rev. Dr. Daniel Godoy is a Presbyterian minister (See photo of me, Dr. Daniel Godoy –at the center, and Dr. Israel Flores). Please pray for our ecumenical partner and its challenges and needs.

Also, I will be serving and co-working with our church partner, the Presbyterian Church of Chile. We will be living in a small city called Antofagasta in Northern Chile. The Presbytery of the Great North is located in Antofagasta. I will be supporting the churches there and the Presbytery in developing new ministries. My wife and I are very excited about the new ministry in Chile. Please pray for us to have a good adjustment there, to keep an open heart and mind, and to serve the brothers and sister of Chile with humility and love.

Dania in the sanctuary of Columbia Presbyterian Church

However, during these months of waiting in Decatur, we are worshiping at Columbia Presbyterian Church, where my wife Dania is a member. Columbia Presbyterian Church is located next to the Columbia Theological Seminary.

Also, Dania has begun the process of being enrolled as an Inquirer at the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta. She is very excited about it, and I am too. She brings with her many gifts from God to be used in the ministry, especially her love and commitment to God’s mission. She plans to take online classes in one of our Presbyterian seminaries in the near future. Currently, she is doing her doctoral studies on leadership and education. So, I ask you to give thanks to God for Dania and pray with me for her life and future ministry.

Also, during these months I am continuing with the Master of Arts in Reformed Theology from the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary in Iowa. This online program is providentially preparing me for classes in the Theological Community of Chile, where the entire program is online. I have never taken online courses. So, this program is an introduction to the online courses and programs. I thank Theology Matters for the full scholarship given to me, so I can do it without any problems. I thank God for this blessing in my life and the faculty of the MART with whom I am learning a lot.

César and Dania at the entrance of the Columbia Theological Seminary Library

Also, during this time I am working on a book about the Theologies of the Book of Genesis. For this academic work, I have been using the Library of Columbia Theological Seminary. The message of this book will be developed into seven themes: Life, Morality, Family, Election, Covenant, Migration and Providence. I am focusing the book on some concerns we have in Latin America on these themes. I hope that this book, which will be printed in Spanish, will be used in courses on the Theology of the Old Testament. Please pray for this academic work that I am doing in these months, so this can help to become aware of the challenges we have today when we deal with these issues.

I want to request your prayers for this time in which we are waiting for our Chilean visas. Although we don´t know when we are going to travel to Chile, I think that it will be by the end of July.

I want to thank you for your partnership in God’s mission around the world. Your prayers and financial support allow us to serve as mission coworkers in many countries.                                                 

God bless you!