What? Grandpa Braggin' Again?!

Last night, Wednesday, I was invited to minister to the cell leaders of a granddaughter church in the city of San Justo. 

Background: The mother church is the "ghetto church" which the Lord helped us to plant in La Boca in 1973-76.  Out of that church have come many daughter churches.  I lost count long ago. 

Now many of these daughter churches, such as the "Catedral de Fe" (Cathedral of Faith) in Buenos Aires with Pastor Osvaldo Carnival, have come to maturity and are birthing daughter churches... let's call them "granddaughter churches!"  Pastor Osvaldo told me that in recent years the Lord is telling him that his church is "mega enough" (my term, not his) having surpassed 30,000 believers and God is directing him to release pastors and plant daughter churches.  Since then they have been birthing at least one new church per year and they name them all "Catedral de Fe."

San Justo's "Catedral de Fe", with Pastors Gustavo y Susana Rossi, is only about five years old.  Already they have miraculously acquired their own building and are growing rapidly.  This Wednesday night they were commissioning a new group of cell leaders.  In this photo the new ones are lined up on the platform.  Pastor Gustavo is laying on his hands.  His wife, Susana, at far right with microphone is leading in prayer.  The most elderly of this group is 83 years old, (brother under pastor's hand). The youngest is 16.  Their discipleship cells average about 10 people and meet in restaurants, businesses, homes, parks, anywhere and everywhere. 

 

Now take a look at this what appears to be a "congregation".----> This isn't the congregation.  These are just the cell leaders and their families!

Am I braggin'?  You bet I am!  I'm braggin' on Jesus that can take our fragile, fumbling efforts in a low income area of the city and produce fruit that continues to bear more new fruit generation after generation!  To God be the glory. Great things He has done!

Ralph