ARGENTINA
The End of the World and Beginning of Everything
I From Peru, Erick Sánchez served in Argentina as a volunteer church planter and Bible worker.
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couldn’t shake my professor’s words; they churned in my mind for weeks. “We have to be missionaries to the world,” he urged as he shared news with our theology class about the church’s mission work. His counsel touched my heart, and that day, God planted a dream there to serve Him in a distant land. One day, I saw an advertisement requesting a Bible instructor for a mission school in Argentina. I quickly contacted the school director, and to my joy, I was accepted for the job! On the long flight to Argentina, I meditated on how God had worked in my life to make this experience possible. I was so excited. Everything was new to me! It was my first time leaving my
country. My first time traveling by plane. My first time being a missionary. As I neared my destination, I felt the excitement of undertaking this adventure with the assurance that God would guide my steps. Ushuaia, the capital city of Tierra del Fuego province, is the southernmost city on the globe. It’s often referred to as the end of the world. I trusted Jesus would make my experience one of new beginnings as I shared His message of hope and salvation. I found Ushuaia to be a land of raw, pristine beauty where fiery red sunsets merged with the deep blue of snow-capped mountains and the verdant, dense Patagonian forest. But its people were struggling. Many suffered a high level of addiction
