The Underwood Family

Missionaries to Argentina

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January 2022 Prayer Letter

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Happy New Year to all our faithful ministry partners and prayer warriors!

I am so thankful for God’s goodness to us as we begin a New Year of ministry and service to our precious Savior! I look back on the last year, and even beyond and know that regardless of our situation and circumstances, that God was, is, and continues to sit upon the throne of Heaven!

We are in the middle of summer, so that makes this season a little strange for us. But the boys sure have enjoyed swimming and riding their bikes all over! Christmas looked a little different, but we quickly adjusted, especially remembering the several Christmas’s we had in South Africa. 

After spending our first Christmas in Argentina, with a tremendous group of saints from Iglesia Bautista Fe; we are looking forward to continuing to minister along side them and branch out to start our own church this year! I have pretty well decided on the area of Ezeiza, on the south side of Buenos Aires to start our church plant. In this area, there are roughly 160k souls in need of a gospel preaching church, and someone to love them enough to tell them about Jesus!

Several of the young people from Fe, Patrick Henry’s church, will be helping us canvas the area and invite folks to church in Lanús as we work toward finding a place to meet in Ezeiza. Please be praying with us about this need and exciting opportunity to advance the kingdom of God, and advance global missions!

Continue praying with Ashlee and me for growth in the language. We are continuing to study and learn, practicing and living in Spanish! I believe the Lord is using this time to help prepare us for the ministry to come. I desperately want to effectively share the gospel in Argentina!

Thank you for all that have been so faithful to pray for us, support our ministry, and love us! We are eternally grateful for your investment in souls for eternity!

Your Missionaries to Argentina,

Stephen, Ashlee, Peyton, Eli, and Neyland
The Underwood Family
Acts 20:24
argentinamissions.net 

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Merry Christmas from the Underwood Family!

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Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

We are now several weeks into settling into our long awaited new home here in Buenos Aires, Argentina! God has been so good to us to allow us to serve Him on this beautiful mission field and we are excited about the year ahead!

For a few weeks now, we have been attending Iglesia Bautista Fe, a church started by Patrick Henry. The folks there have welcomed us and loved us since day one and we are so grateful for the opportunity to serve along side them. Ashlee and I are going through a review of language school as we adapt to a new lingo from Peruvian Spanish to the Argentine way of speaking. Ashlee of course is doing phenomenal.

Please be praying with us over the next several months as we work to improve in the language, make connections with people, share the gospel, and invest in their lives for eternity! I have already begun exploring potential areas to start our church in the coming months.

Please pray for wisdom to know exactly where to start, God’s guidance to meet people, and that He would bring along a young man that I will be able to disciple and train for ministry. These initial days are always exciting, and honestly, and little unnerving at times. I don’t think any of us ever feel like we’re “ready” enough. Thanks be to God that it doesn’t rest upon our shoulders, but Christ’s to build His church!

We pray that each of you will enjoy a wonderful Christmas season, time with your family, and remembering our Savior being born of this mortal flesh
to redeem man unto Himself! It is my favorite time of the
year!

Your Missionaries to Argentina,

Stephen, Ashlee, Peyton, Eli, and Neyland The Underwood Family
Acts 20:24
argentinamissions.com

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¡Estamos en Argentina! (November 2021 Prayer Letter)

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Praise the Lord! You should be receiving this prayer letter from Argentina! After a year and a half of working, praying, and trying to get to our field of service, the Lord opened the door and allowed us to get here.

Over the month of October, we were blessed to spend some time with family and accomplish all of our needed tasks for a short visit. We were able to get all our documents to begin our visa process under way, and complete some other requirements for entering the country.

Please be praying for our first ten days here in the country, as we will be spending them with Patrick Henry and his family before they come back on furlough on the 17th! We are excited to be working with them to reach Argentina with the gospel, and are grateful for their friendship. We will have much to do to settle in, and adapt to life in Argentina; at the same time, they will be packing and preparing for their furlough. Pray that they have a profitable time in the States and special time with friends and family.

We cannot express enough our gratitude for your continuous prayers and support for our family. The last year and a half seems to have been a long time of preparation for God to do something big and we are trusting Him to bless our efforts in Argentina. It seems like a lifetime ago that we were arriving in Peru to begin language school, and now here we are just a few months away from starting our first church in Argentina. God is so good!

Please join us in praying for:

  1. 1)  Adapting to Argentina culture and the differences in language.
  2. 2)  Settling into our new home and the folks with which we will be serving.
  3. 3)  The Henry family departing for furlough.
  4. 4)  The next several months as we begin preparing to plant our first church. More details will follow as they develop over the next several months!

Thank you again for your continued love, prayers, and support of our family!

Your Missionaries to Argentina (finally),

Stephen, Ashlee, Peyton, Eli, and Neyland The Underwood Family