After 19 years involved in student ministry in Argentina, Peter and Terry Blowes were ‘ordained’ by the local Argentinian church to be missionaries to Australia.

In an emotion-charged farewell service at the Church of Love Baptist Church in Corrientes last month, the Australian missionary couple had hands laid on them by the local church to ‘go out and be missionaries to Australia and the world’.

Peter Blowes has been called back to Australia by CMS to take up the position of Personnel Secretary. This key role oversees the placement and pastoral support of missionaries.

Peter said he is ‘heart-broken’ not to be remaining in Argentina, but ‘can see God’s timing’ in the CMS decision to call him back to Australia.

With Protestant Christianity growing rapidly in South America, the university ministry - Asociacion Biblica Univesitaria Argentina (ABAU) - is at the crossroads, Peter says.

“I do feel positive about the situation we are leaving in Argentina. ABAU is at a stage where it could really take off. It needs to make a quantum leap to face the challenges. All the elements are in place.”

Key among the issues facing ABAU is the need to appoint full-time staff workers. With the Blowes' leaving, funding has been secured from Argetinian graduates of the university ministry that will allow the appointment of a young staff worker, Diego and his wife Laura to the position. 

Please pray:

* For Diego and Laura, the staff workers in Corrientes who will be taking on the Blowes' work there. Also staff workers, Gustavo in Resistencia, and Ariel in Rosiado.
* For the expositional preaching training run by ABAU and supported by John Stott’s Langham Trust.
* The Spanish-language version of Moore College’s PTC course was recently accepted as a credited course across the whole of South America. Pray that it will take root among the 600 million Spanish-speaking Christians across the continent.