Verbo Cordoba

Av. Gral. Mosconi 469 Bo. Panamericano - 5001 - Cordoba - Argentina 
Teléfono   54-51-70 5206
Jose Miguel Aguero - Anciano Gobernante

Verbo Corrientes
500 V. Mz.60-14-4 C.56 (M.P.); (3400) Corrientes-Argentina
Teléfono   0783-56250
Carlos Umberto Alegre - Anciano Gobernate

There are presently two churches in Argentina, one in Cordoba and the other in Corrientes.  The Cordoba church has been part of our family of churches for a couple of years, the relationship that we have had with them goes back several years. God is doing some exciting things there,and the potential for growth is tremendous! More information will be made available as we receive it. Here is information to make contact with them, or attend a service if you happen to be in Argentina! 

Chileans Are Fired Up for Jesus
Meet our Southern Cone Leader

Argentine Outreaches Show Solid Spiritual Growth
 When  Jose Miguel and Adriana Aguero opened the first Verbo church in Cordoba, Argentina’s second largest city, four years ago people were looking for stability in the midst of social and economic unrest. Since then they’ve been finding the solidity of the Rock of Salvation—Jesus!
 “Despite tremendous spiritual warfare, precarious financial conditions, and lack of trained workers for all the new areas of ministry, we’ve seen God’s powerful hand back us at every step, ” Jose Miguel says.  “We’ve developed five congregations in Argentina and another in Chile. Our church in the town of General Cabrera in the south of the province of Cordoba now has a radio program that is reaching out evangelistically.” 
 Little more than 10 percent of Argentines have come into a born-again relationship with Jesus. The hard work of building God’s Kingdom in this most important country in Hispanic South America is still ahead. Jose Miguel, Adriana, and their team plan to be in the forefront of that move with a plan to evangelize wherever God opens the way, to train new leaders and workers, and to impart to each convert that he is a precious part of a glorious church that is bringing the renewing love of Jesus to a needy world. 
 “This month of December we’re sponsoring our fourth Encounter for Ministers and Church Workers in Cordoba. Christian leaders from other nations will equip our teams,” Jose Miguel reports. “Last month we put on an intensive evangelistic and healing campaign in Cordoba that brought many souls to Jesus.” 
 The congregation in Corrientes, in the country’s northeast, began when a couple that had attended a Verbo church in Guatemala City while working as Youth with a Mission missionaries returned home with a vision for a similar work in their city. Two years ago, with help from the brethren in Cordoba, they and other young couples opened a church that has been growing rapidly.
 The General Cabrera church began when Marcelo Araoz, a young engineer who had been discipled as a teenager by Jose Miguel, opened an evangelistic Bible study that grew dramatically. With help from the Cordoba brethren,  Marcelo organized a church that included a program for needy children and radio broadcasts. 
 In northern Argentina in the provincial capital of Salta, Walter Armella leads a congregation of 50 adults. He started six years ago as an independent minister, but soon realized he needed help. He called on Jose Miguel, with whom he’s had a 16-year ministerial relationship. 
 Finally the church in  Las Heras, Mendoza, led by Ramon Gomez , is active in helping the other works in evangelism. His charismatic gift of evangelism spearheaded expansion into Chile.
 In relation to the extraordinary growth of the last few years, Jose Miguel says, “We don’t want to do our own thing and then ask God to ‘bless’ us. We want to flow in what He’s doing all around us and simply  be His servants and coworkers.” 
Southern Cone Chief Is Dynamic Leader
     The tip of South America— the Southern Cone—is a region of stark contrasts: Teeming cities like Buenos Aires and Santiago, unpopulated forests on the southwestern coast. The high Andes mountains and the flat Pampas. Catholic Argentina and evangelical Chile. 
      The man God provided to spearhead Verbo's soul winning and outreach works in this vast area is Jose Miguel Aguero, who received Jesus as Lord in 1978 while an college engineering student in Cordoba. His early discipleship training and eventual call to ministry were with Maranatha Campus Ministries.
      Miguel recalls, “After Maranatha disbanded I worked with another ministry as an evangelist and apostolic team member, but I was looking for a Christian expression that tried to live according to an “Acts of the Apostles” New Testament model. 
      “In 1994 my wife, Adriana, and I decided to set up a group along the lines of our understanding of the early church model.  We started in the living room of our house with another couple. The group grew so fast we  had to find a bigger meeting space. I knew God was doing something special so I called my old friend Jorge Rodriguez (now with Verbo Mexico) and he and another Verbo minister visited Argentina to help us. Since then God has given us a dynamic, progressive, and challenging ministry.” 
      The bible study the Agueros began in their home is now a family of six churches in two countries that is growing daily as more people seek Jesus and more ministers look to join a part of the Body of Christ where godly discipleship, a vision for world evangelism, and a sense of community are a present reality, not just a doctrinal position.
Chileans Are Fired Up for Jesus
Editor’s note: A Verbo church just started in Chile through a powerful move of the Holy Spirit. Argentina director Jose Miguel Aguero and gifted pastor/evangelist Ramon Gomez from the Verbo Las Heras in Mendoza Province, journeyed to a Chilean town in the Andes Mountains to hold a series of revival meetings as a follow-up to a well-received earlier outreach. Here’s Jose Miguel’s report of what happened beginning October 21: 

 The week before we went to the town of Los Andes Ramon had arranged with the city government for a meeting hall and had informed people that we would soon be in town to preach the Gospel. As soon as we arrived at the home where we to be lodged people started knocking on the door seeking prayer for healing. That night about 25 people showed up for our meeting. We preached, prayed for the sick, and even helped some demonized persons get free. All those attending made a decision to follow Jesus!
 The next day people came to the house all day long for prayer, and that night about 60 adults attended the meeting.  As we prayed for the sick and demonized, people began falling to the floor under the power of the Holy Spirit. Nobody had ever seen anything like it. Then the police showed up, responding to a complaint that a couple of foreigners (us) were touching people and causing them to faint. Ramon and I told them we were pastors and that it wasn’t us; God’s power was knocking people to the floor. Once they understood what was happening they left satisfied. 
 There’s a great move of the Spirit going on. The converts urgently need to learn about what the Bible teaches. There’s idolatry all around them. And since they’re new to Jesus they don’t have any spiritual leaders among them yet. We have to pastor them from Argentina until we can get a permanent minister into the area. 
 But praise God. He makes provisions. Walking though town one day I encountered a Chilean Christian whom I had met in Mendoza seven years ago. Hugo now lives in Los Andes and works with a young pastor who shepherds 140 people in the neighboring town of San Felipe. Just a few days earlier they and their wives listened to some cassettes of teachings I had given at a convention several years ago. They had commented how wonderful it would be to flow in the vision that I was sharing. So Hugo set up a meeting with the pastor. Ramon and I shared about the restoration of the government and worship of the early church and about developing leadership teams, etc..
 That night they went to our meeting and when they saw the conversions, the healings, the way we work as a team according to our different gifts, they asked us to tell them more about our ministry the next day. 
 After several hours of discussion, Hugo and the pastor, Victor Moraga, said they wanted to work under Verbo’s spiritual covering. We told them we’d put the matter to prayer and counsel, invited them to our Ministers’ Conference at the end of the year, and encouraged them to get to know our leaders and our way of doing things before their congregation made a final decision. 
  Out of this “chance” meeting with Hugo came many blessings. We can help them develop their church while they can help us shepherd our new flock.


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