Prior to one of our Management meetings I was reading from Isaiah and this caused me to question whether the new management team should be trying to continue the work of Chile for Christ in the same way that the team worked under Arnold. I came to the conclusion that we need to focus on the Trust Deed of the Charity even if that means we approach our work in a slightly different way. So, as a result we are attempting to distribute three newsletters each year.

I am very aware that we need to expand the team and I hope that, before long, there will be some advertisements for new posts. In particular we would like to find someone who has some time and the skills to search the Chilean media so that we are alerted to any problems that are affecting the people in Chile. Clearly this would need to be someone who could read Spanish and we cannot ask Danielle to do any more than she does at present.

Another need is for a fundraiser as we cannot do much more than we do at present until we can increase our income.

We have started 2019 with some personal challenges for a number of the members of the management team but with God's help we are overcoming the difficulties. More of a problem has been knowing how to answer some of the requests that we have received. It would appear that a number of people whom we support are now reaching out to start ministries in Argentina and we have received requests to help in some cases. However, the Trust Deed for the charity mentions specifically that we are to work for those in Chile and we have had to decline these requests.

We were able to respond positively to one request to help a young pastor, his wife and his two young children. We were able to help finance a trip to Argentina to attend a three week training course for him then to return to Chile in a much better position to pastor his congregation. We worked to do this through the ministry of Gerd and Rosi Bergmann who sent us a photograph of the small family with the Bergmanns.