Awesome Stuff!

Meet Enrique Strohschein, National Superintendent of the Assemblies of God in Argentina, a true man of God, and his wife Irma. The national conference was a thrilling event with great preaching, including his message the final night. He is famous for insisting that every one of us should spend “at least one hour in prayer daily.”

So many people had asked me about Felipe that he was allowed a spot that final night. Then our national superintendent ministered to about 2,000 of us with a powerful message backed up with many references to God’s Word… which is typical of his preaching.

The following Saturday night, October 8, I was privileged to minister in the city of San Martin where the old church is being remodeled. Both little children and adults enjoyed Perfume and Felipe. Later they were just as responsive to the ministry of the Word.
It was in this same building that in the year 1965 I witnessed an 18 year old girl, who knew no English, worship God in perfect English for nearly 30 minutes as she was being filled with the Holy Spirit baptism! Awesome stuff!

Sunday October 9, I ministered in the city of Rivadavia with Pastor Omar Coronel in their beautiful new sanctuary, dedicated only two days previous.

The pastor’s father, Ernesto Coronel, was there. For me it was a precious moment. This brother had received me into his home when we first arrived in Argentina. Only seconds before this picture was taken his son, Pastor Omar Coronel, had just remarked that the two of us on the front row reminded him of Belgrano y San Martin, which would be like George Washington and Abe Lincoln in the USA. It was a LOL (laugh-out-loud) moment.

What a great church! Youth up front in enthusiastic worship… and at the close of the message practically everyone on their knees offering something important to the Lord and receiving something better from Him. Oh, how I would like to see our USA churches get back to the “altar service” where life-changing things happen!

Ralph