Mission work in the Impenetrable, one of the most virgin and impenetrable areas in the northwest of the Argentinian Chaco, is advancing well. Here is the home of people who live in a world of their own, which is dominated by superstition, ignorance and despair.

Soon after mission work was launched in 1986, it had a ripple effect: Small congregations and chapels sprang up everywhere. Many families had new hopes, people stopped their spiritist practices, people who were ill were healed through prayer, marriages were healed; alcohol addictions were overcome, and the vicious circle of vendetta was broken. God’s presence was experienced in a region considered as lost to God, as “impenetrable”.

Margarito Soraire was among the first to be converted. He was 17 years old, and he was an illiterate. He did primary and then secondary school in compact courses, and then theological training by correspondence. After that, he became the MASA missionary for this region.

Together with some co-workers, our missionaries, Margarito Soraire and Vicente Barón, had the privilege of bringing hope to these people – many of them have already been converted in these past years. Today, there are 20 mission churches within a radius of up to 300 km, the most important congregations being in Miraflores and in Taco Pozo. In many regions, small church buildings have been erected. Over 60 brothers and sisters living in this region take part in staff training courses, which are organized by MASA missionaries Leopoldo and Mabel Castro. Roberto Gil, one of Margarito’s co-workers, has been ordained as a pastor.