Terry Bentley

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Prayer Letter/Ministry Update

Greetings from Buenos Aires, Argentina! Thanks for your partnership through prayer and financial giving over the past months. They are what sustain and encourage me.
During my Home Assignment in the U.S. from June through August 2009, I didn’t travel to visit as many people as I had hoped. It took me longer to process the upcoming changes as I get ready to leave Argentina and the C&MA. Thank you, especially, for praying for me regarding the transition I mentioned in my last bulletin. God has given clarity to my previously unknown future. The date for the closing of the Argentine field of the C&MA depends somewhat on when each worker leaves the field. Two families leave in 2010 and the remaining three are scheduled to depart in 2011.
God has answered prayer in many ways over the last months. While in the U.S. in August, I interviewed with Church Ministries International (CMI), an organization that partners with the C&MA and other denominations to develop leaders and program strategy for evangelism in Latin America and Spain. Through many confirmations, I believe this is the next step to which God is leading me. My function will be as administrative assistant in the CMI offices in Plano, Texas. My plans are to leave Buenos Aires at the end of April, visiting Peru for two weeks and then be in Wisconsin until mid-July, when I will move to Texas to get settled and begin working with CMI.
I am so thankful for how God has led me up to this point. Our faith is exercised in the dark, although I didn’t have to wait in the “dark” very long. And although I know where I’ll be going next and what I’ll be doing, there are still many unknowns: where will I live? What will I drive? Who will be my new friends?! Then there is the issue of healthy grieving as I leave this place where I will again leave part of my heart. Transition, and all it entails with “living in two worlds”, is a challenging time. Please pray for me as I have several months left to enjoy friends, pack and turn over office responsibilities, before saying healthy goodbyes.
Please pray for Argentina: that the hearts of those I’ve had contact with would be open to Christ and His work in their lives; that Christians would openly share their faith in Jesus with their friends and neighbors; and that the Argentine Alliance Church will grow and become more mature.
Please continue to pray for my colleagues: Jonathan and Judy Grames, Joel and Lynn McGarvey, Erin Sabol, Bob and Sue Stern and Dan and Melody Taube, as each of them continues to seek the Lord as to what He has for them in His timing.
It has been a privilege to serve in partnership with you these 17 years both in Peru and Argentina, to see people come to a personal faith in Christ, and to grow in Him. God has given me the opportunity of being His hands and feet to many people, and you have had an essential part in that. God has also changed me in the process. Thank you for being faithful in your financial support and consistent in your prayers.

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