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Our Experiences.
     On our first mission trip, we were able to take 25 students and adults with us to Argentina. We worked alongside two other student ministries, and over the course of one week, we witnessed 897 professions of faith through the direct efforts of the American mission teams. What was equally exciting is that every team member individually led at least one person to faith during that week. As you can see, we are dually committed to not only winning souls but also training soul winners. Other projects included holding block parties in the plaza, paint talk evangelism in downtown Buenos Aires, school evangelism through the drama “Born Again to a Living Hope”, and evening worship services throughout the week. On the following Sunday, we had a testimony service that lasted for over three hours as students and adults alike shared how their lives were forever changed.
     This past year, we took 17 students and adults back to Argentina to share the gospel in the city of Cordoba. We had the privilege of evangelizing areas that had never had the gospel taken to them before. In addition, the teams had report times each night where we rejoiced together over what God had done in and through our lives.  Throughout this week, we came to witness over 234 people coming to faith in Christ.

Why Not You?
     Our vision for 2007 is to branch out and invite other student ministries to join us as we go again to Argentina. If you are a student or minister in our area and have never been overseas on a mission trip, we are extending an invitation for you to join us this next year. We do most all of the leg work and we want you to piggy back off of us so that the mission experience can be as enjoyable and concentrated as possible. This vision includes taking at least four student ministries with us meaning about 50-60 students and adults this next year. In the long-term commitment, we are looking to financially support some of the missionaries there in Argentina as well as having ongoing prayer and correspondence throughout the calendar year. Through this correspondence, we will be aware of the needs that they have concerning the ministry and will be able to send care packages and ministry equipment to enhance their mission efforts there for a sustained period of time. Again, another mistake that is made with short-term mission projects is just that – they are short. Short in time and short in our memory. We, on the other hand, desire to partner with longevity in mind, providing ongoing resources, prayer support, and financial help to the missionaries and churches that we work with year in and year out. The more churches that partner with this great opportunity and ministry, the less of a burden it will be on each church and the greater impact we will have there in Argentina as churches in America get on board with the global-minded, mission-centered outreach that extends to the precious people in Argentina.
     It would be our joy and privilege to have your students and adults join us as we together, as children of the King, bring His kingdom into the hearts of men and women, boys and girls. May Your kingdom come, may Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven!!!

 

For more information contact Lance Breedlove at 256-729-1328 or lance@clementstbaptist.org

 

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Argentina Missions >

Why Mission Trips for Students?
     As you may well know, short-term mission projects are quickly becoming the hot adventure for student ministries, and they are now replacing the traditional youth camps. I believe that the reason this is occurring is because youth ministers have become all too aware of the emotional responses and mountain top experiences that do not bring lasting change and “fruit that remains” in the lives of the students. While camps are great to attend and fun for the students, students are not engaged in ministry themselves, but rather find themselves spectators or receivers in the camp experience. On the mission field, however, students are participators with God and givers. They give their time, their energy, their resources including their lunch money, and ultimately their lives. Instead of hearing the gospel, they are living it out and find themselves being fanatical followers of Christ. They get first-hand accounts of how God can use them to change the world, and as a result, they are forever changed themselves. I truly believe that when students understand and embrace the truth that God has called each one of them to be on mission with Him, their perspective, purpose, plans, and passion will all be conformed into a God-centered, mission-oriented, Christ-exalting, life-transforming journey.
     For the past six years, the Student Ministry of Clements Baptist Church has partnered with Palabra de Vida (Word of Life) Bible Institute in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is our desire to be a ministry empowered by God to fulfill the Great Commission and our call to be witnesses of God’s glorious grace in taking the gospel to our Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and uttermost places of the world.
It is our conviction that our mission trip is not just a week long, but rather 52 weeks long. What I mean is that we are resolved to train missionaries, not just provide mission trips. Students are weekly going door to door sharing the gospel in their communities as well as participating in mission movements directed through Lighthouse Student Ministries in over 13 schools. We would be doing serious injustice to our students to have them think that mission work exists only one week out of the year. It is a day by day faith-walk led by the Holy Spirit where students’ lives are intentionally orchestrated by the sovereign plan of God. However, it is imperative that student catch a world vision and maintain a global perspective about world evangelization and God’s glory among the nations. In order to do this, we must take our students to these nations so that they can see themselves what God is doing there and how He can use them to bring His message to every tongue and tribe.

Why Argentina?
     We have chosen to partner with Palabra de Vida in Argentina because of their wealth of resources as well as their missionary training that is ongoing there through their Bible Institute. In many mission trips, there is a serious lack of translators which mean fewer teams can take the gospel to the people. Many times the translators are hired and don’t even know the Lord. However, with Argentina, there are over 140 bilingual students who are Spirit-filled soulwinners who are eagerly awaiting mission teams to come and bring the gospel with dynamic force to their people. Not only that, but Word of Life has masterfully planned a strategy of taking the gospel to every region, district, and area of the country, beginning with their capitol, Buenos Aires.
     We strategically plan our yearly mission trip the week after school gets out as an alternative for going to a compromising week at Panama City or other worldly endeavors. We also challenge our seniors to commit themselves to one year of overseas missions before they go off to college or the work force. In doing so, they will give themselves first to God and have a greater understanding of what their purpose and calling is in their life. The average mission trip lasts 9-10 days including the actual flight to and from Argentina.