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ARGENTINA MINISTRY REPORT
FROM CORDOBA AND
BUENOS AIRES PROVINCES
Volume XXXXIII No. 1 |
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This was our third mission trip to Argentina in
only one year. We watched again as God moved by his Spirit with
conviction upon sinners and backsliders, inspiring believers to put
their faith in action and ministers to increase their vision to reap
the harvest of this generation. |
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Tony Abram loves to lead people to Christ
as he is doing here in Moron, Argentina. |
Great altar call in Cordoba, Argentina! (sorry for the bad focus!) |
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Our representative and
associate evangelist to Latin America,
Anatolio Rysko joined me. He
did the groundwork for the ministry and also was my interpreter,
being a dear friend since 1975 and fellow minister when we first met
him in Pasados, Argentina. He was pastor of a local church there
when we came for a citywide crusade and the main host pastor. Born
in Paraguay of Ukrainian parents, he speaks 4 languages: Spanish,
Ukrainian, English and Russian. He has been with us in Ukraine in
the past and has coordinated and interpreted for us in some of our
Argentina crusades. He has a strong anointing on his ministry,
especially when he has interpreted us. He resides now in Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada. When we met him in 1975, we were told that the largest
evangelistic effort only drew crowds of 400 in the city of Pasados. |
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Tony and
Anatolio Rysko get ready to give a call for souls. |
We had never been to this city of Argentina, the
second largest after Buenos Aires. In 1978 we had some great
open-air crusades in different parts of Argentina.
When doing one
crusade in the far north of the country, the president of the
minister’s association of Cordoba came. He had traveled, perhaps 2
days on the bus to get to us. He stated that we had to come to
Cordoba to conduct a soul-winning crusade.
I
asked him why we had to come? He handed me a letter from Evangelist
T. L. Osborn. They had been trying to get him and his wife to come
for a crusade there. |
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Brother Osborn wrote them,
that they were unable to come but that Tony and Marge Abram were in
the country and that they should get us to come as we had the same
kind of ministry. I counted this a compliment, having worked and
learned from T. L Osborn in my early ministry, I considered him a
great man of God, a last day apostle to the nations. I told the
brother that we could not come at that time but we promised that one
day we would come in God’s time. |
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Scene of praise in
the Cordoba Church ‘La Iglesia con la Vida.’ |
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Little did I think it would be 27 years later. However, we kept our promise. We know that this was God’s time. We
had a special meeting with the Pastors, Leaders and Missionaries in
Cordoba where I shared that the people God had given them were
‘tools’ to help them win the nation to Christ. God wanted to use all
His people as they all have a ministry. We also discussed the
possibilities of having mass crusades in the future as we did with
the leading pastors of Buenos Aires. |
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Service after service God gave us many souls to win |
Cordoba minister’s association. |
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Anatolio, Dr. Bolinez, Dr. Ruben Proietti and Tony. |
We feel that we are God’s instruments and
want to do what He has commissioned us to do.
We met two of the main
leaders of the Christian work in Argentina, Pastor Belard, Pastor of
one of the largest churches in Argentina in Cordoba, and Dr. Ruben Proietti, President of the Evangelical and Pentecostal Churches of
Argentina.
We had good fellowship with these two men of
God discussing nation wide outreaches in the near future and the
need of revival.
Dr.
Ruben is the President of all Evangelical
and Pentecostal Churches in Argentina. |
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Tony Abram, Modi Ephraim and Antolio Rysko.
Modi is the First Secretary to the Ambassador of Israel. |
Joining us in Buenos Aires was Dr. Antonio
Bolainez of McAllen, Texas. He was born in Nicaragua, Central
America, studied in Israel and then moved to Texas.
His expertise in
is the area of Israel Eschatology. He is a friend with the Embassy
of Israel in Argentina.
We were invited there and met with, prayed for
and visited with Mr. Modi Ephraim, the Under Secretary of the
Embassy.
We prayed for Israel to be saved and for the Peace of
Jerusalem. However, the best part of this mission trip was to see
souls won to Christ. |
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Associate Evangelist Anatolio Rysko. |
Dr. Antonio Bolinez. |
Argentina Pastor rejoices! |
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This is still the greatest miracle that can
happen! It brings great joy in the presence of God. Luke 15:10
Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels
of God over one sinner that repenteth. Our daily prayer for you and
yours is that you would be blest with all spiritual, physical and
material blessings. |
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Leading many precious to Christ in Argentina. |
People in the halls and standing outside
on the sidewalk trying to get inside to hear. |
God bless you!
Your Missionaries Evangelists, Tony and Marge Abram.
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