Iglesia Bellavista

Bellavista means beautiful view. 
Life on the mission field just got even more exciting. Our main task as missionaries in Chile is to pioneer university ministry. It has taken us all of 6 years to finally feel like the ball is rolling…then God throws us for a loop. More than a year ago God began to fix our eyes upon an area of Santiago called Providencia. The more we talked about it the more we realized that God was calling us to do more than start university ministry in the area…He was calling us to start a church! So we prayed and tried to make sense of this new task. Josh and I have never envisioned ourselves pastoring a church. Not that we were opposed to it, it was just not in "our plans." So after a year of praying and meeting the right people to work with, Iglesia Bellavista was born on April 4, 2014. "Bellavista" means a beautiful view. Our desire is to give people of Providencia a beautiful view of the life God gave each one of us. "Bellavista" is also a very well known area of Providencia. It is known as Santiago's bohemian quarters and home to many universities and heavy night life. An area where you would least expect a church. A great passage that represents our church is found in Acts 3, the story of the lame beggar that is healed outside the temple at the Gate Beautiful. We want to be a body of believers that recognizes and meets the spiritual needs outside of the church and in the community God has placed us in. We currently meet in hotel conference room every Friday night and are averaging about 15 people. We are excited for this part of the journey and see what God does through us to continue to reach the people of Chile.

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