Robert and Cheryl S Fugate

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Bob and Cheryl Fugate
fugate@cmachile.cl
814-299-4159

The Professional Class of - Santiago Chile

Church Planting: We pastor the Alliance Church of the Vineyard. Our name comes from the historic vineyards that are giving way to the nations largest housing projects.

We minister to the Alliance Girls Home with 77 girls age 3-18 yrs. old and to House of Hope. We minister to families through the outreach of Marriage Encounter and to women through Women's Encounters.

November 29, 2011
This has not been the easiest month for Cheryl. It has been a gentle reminder of our need for persistent prayer to accomplish our missionary work. Cheryl had several weeks of a medically-induced lethargy and nausea. She was diagnosed with a treatable form of thyroid cancer. She returns to the hospital on December 13th for follow-up therapy, which includes radioactive iodine treatment, for four days. She hopes to be out by December 16th which marks the arrival of our daughter Sarah and husband Tim to Santiago.

In spite of it all, Cheryl gave her all to the intensive planning and preparation for our Women's Encounter. We were awed once again at how God can transform lives in such a short period of time.

We saw amazing transformations. There were 20 women who participated and another 20 working.
• There was the woman who started the day out publicly stating that she did not believe in all this religious stuff, but by day's end, wept and found healing in God.
• The dear woman who wept over her need to forgive others, especially her family and husband so that her marriage could be saved. Her perspective has been forever changed once she could "let go of the pain" that not forgiving brings in our lives.
• The elderly mother who at the end of the day boldly proclaimed that it was about time that she gave her life to the Lord and made a profession of faith on the spot.
Cheryl has several more outreach events to head up. This Saturday is a women's Christmas meeting for all the ladies and guests, then next Wednesday the ladies of the church will host a baby shower for a brand new believer in the church family who is expecting their first child.

Thank you for your prayers for Cheryl and for the ladies' lives who have been transformed by God's love. We know in our hearts that your prayer opens the doors for ministry in Chile.

I am finishing a sermon series on raising children which has been well received and on Sunday we have a church-wide event for contacts, friends and family members. Our last marriage growth group is Friday night, and the ladies will get together and bake cookies to hand out after our first-ever Christmas Eve service. It is a busy end to a busy year, but we have seen wide open doors for sharing God's love to others thanks to your prayers.

November 3, 2011

Last Friday night Jose and his wife shared in our marriage group that they are ready to come to our church because marriage encounter saved them. He shared with the group, that.....We split up and I moved out several months before the encounter. We had given up any hope for us and had decided not to go to the encounter, but at the last minute at the insistence of our friends, we chose to give our marriage one last chance..... The next months are key for this couple and many other families like them in similar circumstances. Another couple in the group shared that all we did was fight all the time, but now we have fallen back in love and are learning how to practice love and forgiveness. We will continue to meet and disciple these couples over the next months until years end. Cheryl and I share the burden and heavy responsibility of sharing Gods love with these couples and doing our best to guide them to a spiritual relationship with the Lord himself. Our goal and prayer is that they will act now and take the radical step of attending one of our Sunday services, not just to preserve their marriages, but to find salvation in Christ through faith. We have two remaining bridge events for these families, our Woman’s encounter and our Sunday Family Day, (an old fashioned cookout and games in the best tradition of the Sunday school picnic of years ago.)

Next Saturday November 12th is our Women’s Encounter, an exceptional daylong retreat that every woman should have the opportunity to experience. Cheryl is in the final stages of preparations; in this encounter we will have five members of another Alliance church in Santiago to begin teaching them how to implement this evangelistic ministry in their church. In spite of Cheryl’s lessened capacity to organize the encounter, other women have stepped in and picked up a share of the load. This is one of those positive results of a negative situation.

Transition – Handing off the baton to a Chilean Pastor…
…..Praise the Lord that the Chilean Alliance approved the Chilean pastor for our congregation in last Saturdays meeting. Pastor Elias Stuardo is the Vice President of the Chilean Alliance church and should take over the leadership of our congregation next March. At the same time God has blessed the congregations finances which to date have grown by over 20% from last year. We are challenging the church to take a step of faith and fully support their new pastor matching his salary from his last church where he pastored for 18 yrs and is now the largest church in the north for the Alliance. Our congregation is praying and we will have a church wide spiritual retreat on Saturday November 19th to seek the Lord for confirmation.

October 27, 2011

Please keep Cheryl's health in prayer, she cannot start hormone replacement meds until the biopsy report is conclusive. We should know this friday. We have a marriage growth group friday night and are pleased that all the couples will be attending. Pray for wisdom for us as we deal with several couples who were on the brink of divorce and are now moving towards the Lord and towards building a healthy marriage

Please keep the Vision for Chile work team in prayer, they are close to completing the long wall on the north side of the compound that was broken down and a security risk.

We have made great progress on our NGO, Bob filed the final documents this week that meet all government regulations for our foundation. This next week we are ready to sign contracts for workers, open the bank account and get our tax exemption for corporate donations.

Thank you for your prayer, please remember our NGO and wisdom for our board of directors in some very important sessions we have this week.

October 26, 2011

Praise the Lord we received the last document needed for the Korean pastors visa...

October 25, 2011

South Korean Missionaries join Chile field ... these are times of opportunity for world missions.

Pastor Young Seok and Sunny Na convey their deep love of Christ with all they come in contact.

They are a musically talented family, (she studied opera in Italy) who have left family and home to plant churches in Santiago. Their denomination, South Korean Evangelical Holiness Church, has sent out over 300 missionaries around the world. They are the first ones to come to Chile and do so under an innovative partnership agreement between the South Korean and US Alliance. For both of our missions, this is a first. Pastor Young Seok and Sunny shared and sang in our Pe�alolen missions service on Sunday with such impact that tears ran freely from those who sensed the overwhelming and unmistakeable presence of the Lord in our midst.

This I am working with the Na�s to acquire their residency visa in Chile. As with so many spiritual endeavors, God opens the needed doors at the right time. This literally happened last week when it looked like after all our effort, the Na�s would be denied a visa because we were lacking one non-consecuential document and time had run out. We went back to the Ministry of Justice for one last try. As I walked past the guards and through the double doors into the directors offices without any appointment, a secretary stopped me cold and told me that I could not see the director because he was away at a meeting, no sooner had she said that oft repeated line, then the director came around the corner from his office, looked at me and even though we had never met, invited me into his office. He thought I had an appointment and his secretary was brining me back to see him!
As a result of this providential timing, I walked out of his office with a special authorization signed by him for any remaining paperwork I needed to process the visa for the Na family. Their deadline if this friday, please pray for them this week for final acceptance into Chile.

October 19, 2011

Cheryl is progressing well after surgery, at home and resting. Thank you for your prayer and support. Next Monday we will get the results back of the biopsies, please pray for complete healing.

Thank you so much for your prayer. This is part of the cost of establishing indigenous ministries that have long-term projections long after we are gone.

Under the Same Wings,
Bob and Cheryl

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Prayer

Prayer Requests:

1. Pray for our future Chilean pastor. Pray for the details of the transition process, logistics, salary, and strategic planning. March of 2012 Pastor Stuardo will be confirmed as the first Chilean pastor of Penalolen

2. Pray for Cheryl’s full recovery from surgery. She has a treatable form of thyroid cancer and will have post-surgery radiation therapy in december. She should be back to full strength by years end.

3. Pray for the Penalolen church contact event this sunday, for the many visitors who will hear the gospel message presented.

4. Pray for the full funding of the House of Hope this year.

Chile

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