La Boca Ghetto Church

It’s 3 AM and I have arrived back at the prophet’s chamber. Tonight I had the joy of preaching again in the church we planted in the slums of Buenos Aires in 1973-74, Barrio La Boca. Pastor Jose Manuel Carlos and his lovely wife, Isabel, were very young when we turned this church over to them in 1976. They are now grandparents, but just as vibrant as ever. (Photo)

Great Tuesday night crowd! (Photo) Lots of kids! (Photo) Saturdays they have two youth meetings back to back. First, 70 teenagers meet in the late afternoon, then that evening about 70 college age and older youth meet for worship.

I met Walter and Cinthia after church. (photo) They are part of an outreach team that is ministering in a neighborhood where many young teenage kids smoke some strange new drug using a pipe. La Boca church was born in street evangelism and they haven’t lost their fervor. They are reaching out to their crowded world with the love of Jesus. Tonight I preached “the harvest is plenteous”… unlimited possibilities… a mission field at our door step! Pastor Jose Manuel Carlos tells me that so many youth have gone out of the church into ministry that he lost count after it past 87 several years ago!

I must hit the hay. I have three meetings to preach tomorrow; morning in Prince of Peace Christian school in Moreno, afternoon in the same building but a totally different crowd of kids and evening in the Catedral Emanuel in Pacheco. (See ad)

Ralph