Argentina/Uruguay
Participants celebrate the end of an intensive seminar on the Synoptic Gospels in Comodoro Rivadavia, Province of Chubut, Argentina.
Mission co-worker Kathleen Griffin writes about the Rev. Carlos Potenzo, a pastor and seminary professor who was trained as an accountant. For many years, he supported his ministry by working in a bank because he did not receive a salary as a pastor. Nine years ago, he was forced to take a disability retirement for health reasons. His retirement now provides him with a small but secure income and time to study and travel. His passion is bringing theological education to remote towns and cities of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego where there are no institutes of evangelical theology at any level.
Carlos has become a self-educated theologian with profound discernment. He has opened study centers in the churches of the Association of the Church of God in southern Argentina. Students have come from Reformed, Baptist, and Pentecostal churches. Even Roman Catholic lay persons have taken advantage of the courses. Carlos has found that people have an incredible thirst to learn how the Bible speaks to their realities. His students are discovering new ways of sharing God’s grace, working for God’s justice, and freeing those who have been held captive by the power of ignorance.
PC(USA) People in Mission
The Rev. Kathleen Griffin, professor of church history, Evangelical Institute for Higher Theological Studies (ISEDET)
Partners/Ministries
Association of the Church of God: Pastor Miguel A. Benitez, president, Pastor Jorge Julio Vaccaro, director
ISEDET: The Rev. Dr. Pablo Andiñach, president, the Rev. Dr. Jerónimo Granados, academic dean Waldensian Evangelical Church of the River Plate: The Rev. Sergio Bertinat, moderator
PC(USA) General Assembly Staff
Michelle Schulz, GAMC
Wilma Scott, OGA
Lord God, awaken the thirst in your people to know and share more about you, the Bible, and your love for humanity. We thank you for those who have dedicated themselves to teaching the church about you, and we pray for your grace and blessing in their lives. Amen.
Ps. 88, 148 Ps. 6, 20
Ezra 3:1–13 or Jer. 43:1–13
1 Cor. 16:10–24; Matt. 12:22–32
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