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Church News

Two women have become our sisters in Christ over the last few months. Pamela Moroni and her husband Claudio attended our 6th Marriage Encounter weekend in Oct. 2006 and were involved in our follow-up marrieds group. Kelley began studying the Bible with them in March, and Pamela finally made the decision to be baptized at the end of June right before our furlough. Claudio is already a Christian and he and Pamela have been attending regularly with their two children and have become actively involved in our Marriage Encounter ministry. Pamela and Claudio are both financial advisor with different investment firms in Santiago. Claudio was introduced to Kelley by church member Sebastian Eterovic who works with him at the same investment firm.

Adela Cepeda was baptized in July after coming to our church through an LST Young Friends group that came to Santiago last year. She studied the Bible with Penne Hatcher. Adela is a chef/caterer and will be a great contributor to our Sunday potlucks!

Our 8th Marriage Encounter weekend is scheduled for the first weekend of September. Please keep this weekend in your prayers.

Furlough

We went on a 6 week furlough from the end of June to the first of August. During that time we had the pleasure of visiting with many of you. We had a good time visiting our sponsoring and supporting churches. We were also able to spend some family time with parents, aunts, uncles, cousins and nieces. We think that we were the only people in Texas who actually enjoyed the heat! Being in Texas in the summer was a nice escape from the cold weather of Santiago.

Kelley performed a bi-lingual wedding for Providencia church member Rodrigo Rebolledo and former Santiago intern Jenni Worley. The wedding was a Santiago reunion of sorts as the Deans, Kilmers, Del Rios and many former Santiago interns along with former Providencia members who have moved to the U.S. were in attendance at the wedding.

Kelley also had the opportunity to preach at several of our supporting congregations and even lead singing at his parents’ congregation. We would like to take this opportunity to thank our supporting congregations, friends and family for their hospitality while we were in the States.

Family News

Duncan celebrated his 11th birthday in July with several mini-parties with different family members and friends. The kids missed 4 weeks of classes during our furlough, but that did not seem to affect their grades much as their teachers sent homework assignments with them on our furlough. They also received good report cards for the last semester, and Duncan and Abby were selected as Outstanding Students by the teacher’s council for their grade level. Victoria has been chosen to speak at her pre-kinder presentation next week. Konner has not had a lot of desire to return to his pre-school routine though– he keeps telling us that he would prefer to go to school tomorrow!

Prayer Requests

1. Adela Cepeda and her new walk with God
2. Pamela Moroni and her new walk with God
3. New Bible study Kelley is starting with Pamela’s parents, Juan Carlos and Victoria
4. Illia Baez and her decision to be baptized
5. 8th Marriage Encounter weekend
6. Unborn baby of church members Anibal and Natalia
7. “Step-Up” retreat in September for 12 couples from church – more information coming

Blessings,
Kelley, Julie, Duncan, Abby, Victoria and Konner Grant

Santa Magdalena Sofia 577
Las Condes
Santiago, Chile
Phone: 011-562-247-5715
Email: kjgrant99@gmail.com