Pastor John is back in the studio with us again, listeners, thank you for your weeks of

prayers and your weeks of patience as well as we navigated this busy season of travel

for Pastor John.

As a result, we have a backlog of questions to catch up on soon.

But I wonder if it would be best for us to start with a brief update from your travels

and ministry in South America.

Pastor John, how did it go?

What did you want to share with the podcast listeners about your recent travels and can

you just give us a debrief of your trip for us here?

I'd love to.

24 February to March 6th this year, 2019, Noel and I and some others were in Brazil and

Argentina at the invitation of fiel ministries in Brazil and the local gospel coalition and

the leaders of a Bible conference in Argentina and the leaders of a week long Christian celebration

in Campina Grande in northern Brazil.

So that was kind of the cluster of people who said, would you please come and minister here?

And I want to underline that idea of invitation because the way we look upon these kinds of

international trips and this came clearer to me on this trip than ever and I feel really

happy about it is not as a way of spreading what you might call, I suppose, the desiring

God brand or the Bethlehem College and seminary brand or John Piper brand.

That's just not the mindset at all.

We didn't foreground those ministries, instead we're not marketing a brand, we're encouraging

local indigenous movements that God's already doing on the ground and he's doing it all over

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