The Sheaffers - Church Planting in Uruguay

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Vision Team and Upcoming Partnership

Jason Taylor, Christian Pablo, Don Paxton, Jonathan Haskew, Alan McCaullough

Earlier this month I had the privilege of meeting five pastors forming a vision team from the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia. The purpose of their trip was to scout out the work of a future partnership between the SBC of Virginia, Montevideo, and Buenos Aires. The name of this partnership is “The Rio de la Plata Partnership”. The SBC of Virginia is committing to sending teams to both Buenos Aires and Montevideo over the next three years.

Churches from the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia will be working with GAP and other mission projects in both cities. We are also hopeful that some churches or associations will partner with us as Strategy Coordinator Churches; where they actually become the missionary in a high priority zone in one our cities.

We are praising God for this partnership as it will allow the work in Montevideo to be accelerated many times over as we seek to reach the coast with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Please pray that God will use this partnership to positively affect the churches of Virginia along with the work in Uruguay and Argentina.