Our burden for ministry has two main facets: the gospel and the church. In Revelation 1, God allows John to see the risen and ascended Lord Jesus in all his glory. John records that Jesus is \u201cwalking among the lampstands\u201d which are his churches\u2014and struggling, sinful churches at that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
God loves the church: it was his idea (Eph 3:1\u20136), it is his flock, field, building, and temple (1 Pet 5:2; 1 Cor 3:9, 16), it was bought at the cost of his Son\u2019s life (Acts 20:28), and he jealously protects it. (1 Cor 3:16\u201317). It is his precious possession (1 Pet 2:9). Jesus loves the church: he died for it (Eph 5:25; Rev 5:9), he has promised to build it (Matt 16:18), and he protects it (Rev 1:12, 20). If we love Jesus, then we love his church.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The church is not a corporation or an organization; it is those souls whom God has declared \u201cnot guilty\u201d of their sin because of the finished work of Jesus Christ. It is those believers in Jesus Christ who honor and glorify him by putting sin to death by his power every day. It is those who one day will stand blameless before God because of Jesus\u2019 redemption. The gospel is the good news that God has made a way to be right with him: by faith in Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We desire to see God\u2019s mercy magnified among the nations (Rom 15:9) and Jesus\u2019 church built up and growing. This is what burdens our hearts for the north of Chile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n View our doctrinal statement<\/a> and philosophy of missions<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chile\u2019s Norte Grande<\/i>, the \u201cfar north,\u201d is copper country! There\u2019s no other reason to build a city in one of the driest deserts in the world. The majority of Antofagasta’s almost 400,000 inhabitants are connected in one way or another to the mining industry. Antofagasta is the biggest city in the north, and a strategic beachhead for the gospel, with people constantly coming and going from all over Chile and the world. It is also a spiritual desert with little gospel witness.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAntofagasta<\/h2>\n\n\n\n