Argentina

Remembering John Driver

https://www.mennonitemission.net/news/4686/Mission-worker-embodied-gospel-of-peace-

Mission worker embodied gospel of peace

By Lynda Hollinger-Janzen

Mennonite Mission Network ministry in Argentina began with the arrival of the first Mennonite missionaries in Latin America in 1917. The centennial of their arrival was celebrated in September 2017, and then in September 2019 the Iglesia Evangélica Menonita Argentina (IEMA - Argentina Mennonite Church) also celebrated the centennial of the first baptisms, marking the beginning of the church. Currently Mission Network partners with the IEMA in leadership development, camp ministries and church-planting mission programs. Long-term work with the indigenous evangelical churches in the Chaco is also supported by the IEMA through the sending of mission workers from the Iglesia Menonita Bragado.Mission Network has been involved in global mission partnerships with IEMA regional church-planting mission programs since 1998. At present one partnership involving MC USA congregations continues: Visión Evangelística y Misionera de la Región Central (Evangelistic Missionary Vision of the Central Region –VEMCE, formerly known as VEMZO), together with a cluster of congregations from Atlantic Coast Conference in Pennsylvania. Mission Network also continues to relate with the Proyecto Misionero Patagónico (PMP) and Programa Misionero al Norte de Argentina (PROMINOA) as mission programs of the IEMA. Many of the church-planting missionaries sent by Argentine mission programs in earlier years are now pastoring the churches they planted. Congregations also strive to meet needs within their communities, including education and ministries with children and youth.Mennonite mission work with indigenous people in Argentina's northern Chaco region began in 1943. Mennonite ministries encourage the indigenous churches in their development of leaders and in their unique style of worship and organization, as well as supporting Bible translation and leadership development work. The Sociedad Bíblica Argentina has been a partner in multiple projects for Bible translation in indigenous languages.In 2004, Bragado Mennonite Church sent Alfonsina and José Luis Oyanguren to the Chaco where they serve as International Partnership Associates with Mission Network. The Iglesia Menonita Bragado together with the Central zone of IEMA and two Ohio congregations support Alfonsina and José Oyanguren in their Mennonite Team ministry in the Argentine Chaco.

Currently serving

José Oyanguren and Maria Alfonsina Finger

https://www.mennonitemission.net/workers/Latin America/Argentina/José Oyanguren and Maria Alfonsina Finger

José Oyanguren and Maria Alfonsina Finger

Ministry partners

Proyecto Misionero Patagónico (PMP)	https://www.mennonitemission.net/partners/Proyecto Misionero Patagónico (PMP)	Proyecto Misionero Patagónico (PMP)	GP0\|#71c98d5a-7167-4806-950b-d9aa6dd5d807;L0\|#071c98d5a-7167-4806-950b-d9aa6dd5d807\|Argentina;GTSet\|#f1c3ac69-6cd4-4109-8ba8-137477ba8a7d;GPP\|#e2a61412-b024-41d7-adeb-1c4e0b790c03;GPP\|#62ebb633-b401-4243-a537-1a85230e4ebf
Equipo Menonita del Chaco Argentino	https://www.mennonitemission.net/partners/Equipo Menonita del Chaco Argentino	Equipo Menonita del Chaco Argentino	GP0\|#71c98d5a-7167-4806-950b-d9aa6dd5d807;L0\|#071c98d5a-7167-4806-950b-d9aa6dd5d807\|Argentina;GTSet\|#f1c3ac69-6cd4-4109-8ba8-137477ba8a7d;GPP\|#e2a61412-b024-41d7-adeb-1c4e0b790c03;GPP\|#62ebb633-b401-4243-a537-1a85230e4ebf
Iglesia Evangélica Menonita Argentina	https://www.mennonitemission.net/partners/Iglesia Evangélica Menonita Argentina	Iglesia Evangélica Menonita Argentina	GP0\|#71c98d5a-7167-4806-950b-d9aa6dd5d807;L0\|#071c98d5a-7167-4806-950b-d9aa6dd5d807\|Argentina;GTSet\|#f1c3ac69-6cd4-4109-8ba8-137477ba8a7d;GPP\|#e2a61412-b024-41d7-adeb-1c4e0b790c03;GPP\|#62ebb633-b401-4243-a537-1a85230e4ebf
Programa Misionero al Norte de Argentina (PROMINOA)	https://www.mennonitemission.net/partners/Programa Misionero al Norte de Argentina (PROMINOA)	Programa Misionero al Norte de Argentina (PROMINOA)	GP0\|#71c98d5a-7167-4806-950b-d9aa6dd5d807;L0\|#071c98d5a-7167-4806-950b-d9aa6dd5d807\|Argentina;GTSet\|#f1c3ac69-6cd4-4109-8ba8-137477ba8a7d;GPP\|#e2a61412-b024-41d7-adeb-1c4e0b790c03;GPP\|#62ebb633-b401-4243-a537-1a85230e4ebf
Sociedad Biblica Argentina	https://www.mennonitemission.net/partners/Sociedad Biblica Argentina	Sociedad Biblica Argentina	GP0\|#71c98d5a-7167-4806-950b-d9aa6dd5d807;L0\|#071c98d5a-7167-4806-950b-d9aa6dd5d807\|Argentina;GTSet\|#f1c3ac69-6cd4-4109-8ba8-137477ba8a7d;GPP\|#e2a61412-b024-41d7-adeb-1c4e0b790c03;GPP\|#62ebb633-b401-4243-a537-1a85230e4ebf
Visión Evangelística y Misionera de la Región Central (VEMCE)	https://www.mennonitemission.net/partners/Visión Evangelística y Misionera de la Región Central (VEMCE)	Visión Evangelística y Misionera de la Región Central (VEMCE)	GP0\|#71c98d5a-7167-4806-950b-d9aa6dd5d807;L0\|#071c98d5a-7167-4806-950b-d9aa6dd5d807\|Argentina;GTSet\|#f1c3ac69-6cd4-4109-8ba8-137477ba8a7d;GPP\|#e2a61412-b024-41d7-adeb-1c4e0b790c03;GPP\|#62ebb633-b401-4243-a537-1a85230e4ebf

Service opportunities

Teachers of Bible, Theology, and Leadership Development		https://www.mennonitemission.net/Serve/placements/international ministries/Argentina/10/Teachers of Bible, Theology, and Leadership Development	Teachers of Bible, Theology, and Leadership Development		GP0\|#71c98d5a-7167-4806-950b-d9aa6dd5d807;L0\|#071c98d5a-7167-4806-950b-d9aa6dd5d807\|Argentina;GTSet\|#f1c3ac69-6cd4-4109-8ba8-137477ba8a7d;GPP\|#e2a61412-b024-41d7-adeb-1c4e0b790c03;GPP\|#62ebb633-b401-4243-a537-1a85230e4ebf
Mission Intern		https://www.mennonitemission.net/Serve/placements/international ministries/Argentina/10/Mission Intern	Mission Intern		GP0\|#71c98d5a-7167-4806-950b-d9aa6dd5d807;L0\|#071c98d5a-7167-4806-950b-d9aa6dd5d807\|Argentina;GTSet\|#f1c3ac69-6cd4-4109-8ba8-137477ba8a7d;GPP\|#e2a61412-b024-41d7-adeb-1c4e0b790c03;GPP\|#62ebb633-b401-4243-a537-1a85230e4ebf

Mission worker embodied gospel of peace	https://www.mennonitemission.net/news/4686/Mission-worker-embodied-gospel-of-peace-	Mission worker embodied gospel of peace	By Lynda Hollinger-Janzen	GP0\|#bb87ce2f-982d-48d5-ba4b-1a6892b00c05;L0\|#0bb87ce2f-982d-48d5-ba4b-1a6892b00c05\|Puerto Rico;GTSet\|#f1c3ac69-6cd4-4109-8ba8-137477ba8a7d;GPP\|#89f1dfe2-8e50-4b9f-b81a-f3f6dcbc35fc;GPP\|#62ebb633-b401-4243-a537-1a85230e4ebf;GP0\|#71c98d5a-7167-4806-950b-d9aa6dd5d807;L0\|#071c98d5a-7167-4806-950b-d9aa6dd5d807\|Argentina;GPP\|#e2a61412-b024-41d7-adeb-1c4e0b790c03;GP0\|#20875f92-7941-4c99-91cd-6ff11e0df463;L0\|#020875f92-7941-4c99-91cd-6ff11e0df463\|Uruguay;GP0\|#89822f84-696e-4f7a-bc14-837545952bea;L0\|#089822f84-696e-4f7a-bc14-837545952bea\|Spain;GPP\|#e1c6021e-2f25-46dc-91a1-be34789acdf9
Photographs through the lenses of Toba Qom women	https://www.mennonitemission.net/blog/4643/Photographs-through-the-lenses-of-Toba-Qom-women	Photographs through the lenses of Toba Qom women	By Linda Shelly	GP0\|#71c98d5a-7167-4806-950b-d9aa6dd5d807;L0\|#071c98d5a-7167-4806-950b-d9aa6dd5d807\|Argentina;GTSet\|#f1c3ac69-6cd4-4109-8ba8-137477ba8a7d;GPP\|#e2a61412-b024-41d7-adeb-1c4e0b790c03;GPP\|#62ebb633-b401-4243-a537-1a85230e4ebf
Mission nurse, educator, mentor and church leader continued ministry in ‘retirement’	https://www.mennonitemission.net/news/4640/Mission-nurse,-educator,-mentor-and-church-leader-continued-ministry-in-‘retirement’	Mission nurse, educator, mentor and church leader continued ministry in ‘retirement’	By Katie Doke Sawatzky for Mennonite Church Canada and Lynda Hollinger-Janzen for Mennonite Mission Network	GP0\|#71c98d5a-7167-4806-950b-d9aa6dd5d807;L0\|#071c98d5a-7167-4806-950b-d9aa6dd5d807\|Argentina;GTSet\|#f1c3ac69-6cd4-4109-8ba8-137477ba8a7d;GPP\|#e2a61412-b024-41d7-adeb-1c4e0b790c03;GPP\|#62ebb633-b401-4243-a537-1a85230e4ebf
Mujeres latinoamericanas elaboran y lanzan un libro de devocionales	https://www.mennonitemission.net/news/4432/Mujeres-latinoamericanas-elaboran-y-lanzan-un-libro-de-devocionales	Mujeres latinoamericanas elaboran y lanzan un libro de devocionales	Por Laurie Oswald Robinson	GP0\|#71c98d5a-7167-4806-950b-d9aa6dd5d807;L0\|#071c98d5a-7167-4806-950b-d9aa6dd5d807\|Argentina;GTSet\|#f1c3ac69-6cd4-4109-8ba8-137477ba8a7d;GPP\|#e2a61412-b024-41d7-adeb-1c4e0b790c03;GPP\|#62ebb633-b401-4243-a537-1a85230e4ebf
Celebrating Qom Bible translator	https://www.mennonitemission.net/news/4377/Celebrating-Qom-Bible-translator	Celebrating Qom Bible translator	By Laurie Oswald Robinson	GP0\|#71c98d5a-7167-4806-950b-d9aa6dd5d807;L0\|#071c98d5a-7167-4806-950b-d9aa6dd5d807\|Argentina;GTSet\|#f1c3ac69-6cd4-4109-8ba8-137477ba8a7d;GPP\|#e2a61412-b024-41d7-adeb-1c4e0b790c03;GPP\|#62ebb633-b401-4243-a537-1a85230e4ebf
A conversation with José Oyanguren and Maria Alfonsina Finger	https://www.mennonitemission.net/resources/the-hope-series/4197/A-conversation-with-José-Oyanguren-and-Maria-Alfonsina-Finger	A conversation with José Oyanguren and Maria Alfonsina Finger		GP0\|#71c98d5a-7167-4806-950b-d9aa6dd5d807;L0\|#071c98d5a-7167-4806-950b-d9aa6dd5d807\|Argentina;GTSet\|#f1c3ac69-6cd4-4109-8ba8-137477ba8a7d;GPP\|#e2a61412-b024-41d7-adeb-1c4e0b790c03;GPP\|#62ebb633-b401-4243-a537-1a85230e4ebf

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