News from Russ and Heidi Smith, South American Missionary Society (SAMS) Missionaries serving in Chile

Dear Friends and Family,

We�ve been back in Chile almost two months now. Heidi and the children are well established in school. It is quite challenging though, more demanding for the children than anything up to now. Heidi, too, has a lot of demands on her time, even though she has only 9 students!  Russ� duties have begun also. Coming activities in the next few weeks include:

• an �ENE��Children�s Encounter in the Spirit, September 14-15, in which both Joshua and Joyanne are working,
• an �EME��Women�s Encounter in the Spirit, September 29, in which Heidi is participating, as spiritual guide for a small group of the women at the Encounter.
• A week-long evangelistic campaign from September 30- October 7�which everyone is supposed to be involved with. It will include continuous prayer, door-to-door evangelism, healing/evangelistic service, women�s evangelistic tea, men�s evangelistic barbecue, street preaching, children�s outreach and end Sunday with a last evangelistic service.
• EMA�Anglican Marriage Encounter �growth group� in our home, which will last for about the next 6 months, every other week
• Courses Russ has been asked to tutor: Vida Abundante (Abundant Life) on Thursdays, and SEAN 6 (the last of  a 6-book course which studies Jesus� life and ministry) on Wednesdays.
• And opportunities to preach and/or celebrate Holy Communion in churches in San Joaquin (La Ascencion), Renca (La Resurreccion and Buenas Nuevas) and Villa Alemana (San Esteban), besides San Lucas Evangelista Church here in La Florida.

 Some other things to thank God for or to pray for:

• Our paperwork is mailed in for our residency situation to be �regularized� so we can get Chilean ID cards again. (Without those there are a lot of things that we can not do, and other things that not having the card causes a hassle.)
• We are planning to take care of another missionary home (as we�re doing now). That�s nice because we still won�t have to pay rent, and it gives us more time to have our ID cards so that we will be able to sign contracts. Before that we will move back into an apartment at the school�an apartment which opens up just before we need to move out from the house where we are and which is not needed until a few days after we can move into the new house! God definitely works the timing of things out.
• Russ attended a leaders� retreat on August 15 where three students from the CEP (Pastoral Studies Center, the diocesan seminary) taught from Ephesians. He was so impressed. They are excellent expositors of God�s Word. They believe it. They live it. The Anglican Church of Chile has a great future with young men and women like these being prepared so well. Praise the Lord!
• In spite of all the good things, life in Santiago is stressful�especially the traffic. If culture shock is hitting as we adjust to life-in-Santiago, that is what is hitting hardest, specifically Russ since he is the only one driving right now.