The Underwood Family

Missionaries to Argentina

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July 2023 Prayer Letter

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I just want to praise the Lord for His goodness and continued blessings on our family and ministry! Sometimes I find it hard to condense all that God is doing into a one page letter, but this is a great problem to have in my opinion!

One of the greatest blessing happened last week. A young lady, Lourdes, placed her faith and trust in Jesus Christ! Lourdes began attending our church while we were in the States for a short time. Her aunt, Rita, a faith lady in our church invited her. Piper Henry befriended her while she visited and stayed in communication with her. Lourdes continued to attend and is now super faithful and growing! Before salvation, she was a professing atheist! Not only did Lourdes get saved recently, but Neyland, our youngest son, also trusted Christ as his Savior! I am beyond excited to watch God use his life!

We have also seen substantial progress made on the construction of our new property! The floor is poured, we have running water, bathrooms, a nursery, and are opening up space to extend the auditorium space to accommodate up 75 people! We are still in need of roughly $26,000 to complete all the construction, but will continue building as we can. We will be holding our first service at the new property on August 6th. On August 20th, we will have a big Kid’s Day event and use it as an outreach for the community. Last year we had 130 attend and are planning for 200 this year, Lord willing!

I am still just so impressed and encouraged by the spiritual growth of our young people as well. Brian Jr., one of our first and most faithful young men is running the sound system and doing a tremendous job! Yago, is always available to do whatever is asked of him. (To a certain extent) My son, Peyton, is learning to play the guitar and Lord willing will be playing for our church in the near future!

Please be praying for the events coming up and that we will be able to reach more souls to the glory of God!

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

Your Missionaries to Argentina,

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

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20 Days Out!

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My friends, ministry partners and prayer warriors,

This update is going to be extremely transparent and a little unusual. There are not many things I don’t just absolutely love about serving as a missionary on the foreign field. Language can be tricky at times, as there are good days and bad days. Working with people across cultural barriers often has its challenges, but I love getting to work with people.

However, there is one area of missions that I almost hate…yes, I know, hate is a strong word. But this particular area is difficult for me on a personal level. Maybe because of my pride, or I hope its more for my desire to be extremely careful of never taking advantage of the kindness and generosity of others. The Lord knows.

So here it is… We have 20 days until the final building payment is due. This is the biggest weight I have on my shoulders at this present time, and I know that the Lord is using it to build my faith and mature me spiritually. However, we are still in need of $25,000 before the 15th of March in order to own our property outright. After this payment, I can begin working to complete construction and Lord willing put this building to good use for the sake of the Gospel!

So here is what I am asking:

  1. Will you commit to pray that God will provide our financial needs for this property?
  2. Will you pray that God will use this property to see an Army of believers raised up to reach Argentina with the Gospel of Jesus Christ?
  3. And will you ask God if He would have you personally be a part of making this vision become a reality?

If you would like to give toward our property fund, please do so by sending a check to:

Vision Baptist Missions
Attn: Stephen Underwood Property
P.O. Box 647
Dawsonville, GA 30534

Or you can give online with the following link: https://visionmissions.org/give/ Simply select Stephen Underwood in the drop down menu as the designation!

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

Your Missionaries to Argentina,

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

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Camp and Building Update

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God truly blessed our first family camp this past weekend! We met with members of Iglesia Bautista Fe and Iglesia Bautista La Gracia. It was a wonderful time of preaching, encouragement, and fellowship with brothers and sisters in Christ.

We had 16 from our new church attend, including the mother of one of our young men. She, being a devout Catholic her entire life, was able to hear many messages on true salvation by grace through faith, not of works. Isabel, after one of our services, spoke with Sis Vanessa of Iglesia Bautista La Gracia and placed her faith and trust in Christ alone for salvation. Her son, Antony, who had made a profession of faith a couple of months ago, also received full assurance of his salvation! Needless to say that God is doing a great work in the hearts of our people!

Building update: We will be starting clean up on the property, Lord willing this weekend. There is shoulder high grass to be cut, lots of garbage left because it’s been vacant, and several other things we need to do as quickly as possible.

Lord willing, I will also have the original plans for the building this week to use as we begin construction after the final payment in March is made. We are thankful that another $1500 came in toward our building fund last month! We now need $27,000 by March 15th to pay the building off and begin construction. (5 weeks from today)

Please continue praying with us as we trust God to provide this need!

Thank you for all who have given and helped support our ministry! Know that there is fruit being added to your account regularly!

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