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Whats New This Year

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Leaders Retreat We recently held our leader's retreat to start off the 2010 school year. It was a purposeful time of prayer, worship, planning and fellowship to help the students focus on meeting people and starting their small groups. This is our second year working with university students in Chile and its amazing how the Lord has specifically lead us through the pioneering process. The students are beginning to take ownership of the ministry and are joining us in the vision of what God can do through university students to impact the country of Chile. Prayer Walking We can't do anything before prayer, but we can do everything after it. This month we have been going on several campuses teaching students to prayer walk and intercede for their universities. This allows them to envision what God can do on their campus. Here is a view from Universidad de La Serena giving the students a view of the whole city. Bible School The new bible school year has also begun and Josh is teach

Naomi Faith's Arrival

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The New Renfro Family Monday night we went to bed around 1:00 am. Veronica and Melody ha d been over that day. We had lunch at a Peruvian restaurant, came home, had coke floats, watched the movie Up and ate popcorn. It was a fun day off and a great way to pass the time as I anxiously awaited for Naomi to get here. I was 39 weeks and 2 days along. That night before bed I journaled a bit in Naomi’s prayer journal, then fell asleep in Josh’s arms as he consoled my tears of anxiousness and impatience. A t 2:30something am I was awakened by a sharp abdominal pain. It wasn’t the type of contraction I had been looking out for. I decided to have a bit of hope and began to take down the time. At 2:45 I felt another one. I thought to myself “can this be it”. I laid there and just waited. 3:00 am, another one. I turned on the lamp and Josh must have sens ed something because he rolled over and asked if I was ok. I, surprised at the fact he had actually woken up, told him I thought I was having