Nosotros Somos Libres (We are Free)

We scheduled visits to two churches with our new good missionary friends (Jared Park) for the morning service and (Jason Holt) for an evening service in Santiago.

Yesterday we waited for our Pase De Movilidad to activate, but it never happened. Without the Pase activated you are technically not allowed to leave your hotel room. (We may or may not have snuck out yesterday to get provisions). I woke up around 4:30am and kept scanning our QR code on the Pase to see if it was activated. The first service started at noon, so we had to get on the Metro (train) by 11:30 to make it on time, however by 11:00am our passes were still not activated. I let Jared know we would probably not make it for the service, but checked one more time at 11:25 and they were both activated, PTL!

Wow, what an amazing day having the opportunity to fellowship with these great missionaries and their families. Their churches are amazing and they are using what God has given them in the city to do great things. I was able to give a testimony (with the help of a traductor/translator) about why we are in Chile and where we feel God is leading us in the near future. Gretta and I are so grateful God put these families in our lives and the instant fellowship we were able to have. It’s amazing how the body of Christ can come together no matter the location and even language barriers.

We got back to our hotel around 9:30 (21:30) after an awesome day, got some Japanese carryout and had a relaxing dinner. Check out some of the pictures of our day!

Pase De Movilidad

Today we arrived in Santiago, Chile. After we got off the flight we had to go through various checkpoints to ensure we had the appropriate travel and health documents. The whole experience took about three hours, but we are glad have made it through with minimal issues.

Currently when you arrive to Chile you must quarantine until your PCR test result from the airport comes back negative and the Ministry of Health enables your Pase De Movildad. This document has a QR code that most business will scan to make sure you are allowed to travel freely throughout the country.

We left the airport and took a taxi to our AirBnb in the center of Chile. Now we wait until our Pase De Movilidad is activated.

Heading Home

Day 1: Friday, January 14th, 2022

 “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” - Matthew 28:19

Today is our main travel day from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Santiago, Chile. We are flying from Chicago to Toronto, then Toronto to Santiago. We will touch ground in Santiago, Saturday at 11am. This survey trip is much more than a “vacation”, it will really set the tone for our future work down in Chile.

This trip seemed so far away even a couple months ago, but here we are sitting in the Toronto Pearson Airport waiting for our final flight to Santiago. Over the next 14 days I will update you on what we are doing, the people we meet, and the churches we visit.

Our main motto of this trip and our ministry is “Be Available, Be Willing, Be Faithful”. If you can do those three things for the Lord, then the sky is the limit. Here we are, hands open, ready to do God’s work, whatever it takes.

Our ministry is never about “The Repperts”, it’s only about the Lord using “The Repperts” to do HIS work. If you take “The Repperts” out of the equation, God will still get His work done, but if you take God out of the equation, nothing can truly get done for His glory. Christians, if God didn’t have work for us to do here on Earth, He would have taken us home the moment we got saved. But here we are, let’s be do His work until we can’t do it any longer.

For His Glory,

The Repperts

Luis and Gretta in Chicago