Dear Friends,

I hope this email finds you well!

July has been a busy month for us in OM Argentina. We began the month with a 2-day meeting to plan our missionary training conference "Enviame a mi" for the next year, we went through each and every workshop to make it more practical. We also want to add a time of personalized caching after the course, to help the participants to stay on track with their missions preparations. 

A few days later, Lucile from France and Nicole from the US came to join our team for 2 month.
They went out with the winter traveling team (yes its winter here right now), speaking at churches and conferences in Salta and Jujuy for 10 days. Our daughter, Hannah, went with Casey and Kristen to a church camp in San Nicholas, while Vanesa and I went to a conference here in Buenos Aires.

This past weekend was the Christian Book Fair in Buenos Aires, where we were ask to give a 30 minute missions presentation, in addition to selling books and making lots of connections for the future.
So it’s been a great month!

OM Argentina has also been blessed with great news this past month on several fronts.
The first comes in form of books.
We received permission to print 1500 "Xplore" and 750 "GO Mobilize" books. When I went to pick them up, I discovered that:

• Even though the US Dollar has gone up considerably since the quote was given, the publisher honored the original value of the peso.
• He upgraded the quality of the paper at his own cost.
• He printed 96 extra books, and donated those to us as well.

Praise God for His favor!

The second great blessing comes for the team house, which will be the property we wish to purchase next door to our house in Villa Dominica. The owner has agreed to let us purchase the property with a 2/3 up front payment and then make monthly payments until the house in Cordoba sells. This is great news!
Now we are working on the logistics of the payments, but are hopeful that maybe we will be able to purchase the property as early as August. Will you pray specifically with us about this?

Last week, Naemi went back to Germany, after completing her year here in Argentina. She will be missed! Casey and Timothy will be here until the end of August, as will Lucile and Nicole.

As we look forward into August, we are excited about what is ahead. The Traveling Team will travel to La Rioja in August for a week, and also spend several days in Rosario, while Vanesa and I will attend several conferences in Buenos Aires. We are excited to see what God will do!

Thank you for being part of this incredible adventure of reaching the nations for Jesus.

Markus Leder

Field Leader
OM Argentina