Into The Heart of Argentina

Reaching 90% of our support this Spring meant making firm travel plans—we’re leaving for Argentina on August 15th! To give you an idea of how God is working, in May we heard from a church that felt led to give regular monthly support—and they’ve never even met us! We can only sit back in awe as God provides. Currently we are at 96% of our regular monthly support. This leaves just 4% ($134/month) plus the remaining outgoing funds to set up housekeeping and buy a car in Argentina. Thanks for your part, by both praying and giving! Continue to pray as the final amounts come in, and also that we’d be good stewards of those funds; with 30% inflation in Argentina, it will be necessary to carefully consider every peso spent. We have meetings scheduled right up until the Sunday before we fly out, so there’s still a lot of traveling to do. Thank you for praying as we visit churches in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio during these final weeks. Much of what we plan to take is packed, the garage has been cleared out and now it’s time to start loading the pallets. The plan is to have the pallets ready to load directly onto the container when it’s delivered since we have just two hours before they begin charging $90/hour. Fast and efficient! That’s the goal :-) Please pray as we finish packing the last of the boxes and arranging boxes on the pallets so the load is steady and level. Sort of like putting together a puzzle! It’s been eye-opening to see all that goes into moving overseas—a little more involved than anticipated! But we’re slowly knocking out all the little details, from updating our will to confirming Kim’s language course to lining up a despachante who will help us navigate customs in Argentina. The Lord is providing some wonderful opportunities to spend time with family and friends, including all of Ivan’s siblings, some of the cousins, an old high school friend of Kim’s, and a dear couple we served with from Uganda. Extra special blessings! Unfortunately, we just don’t have the time to visit everyone. So if we miss you this time around, let’s get together on our first furlough in about three years! These last few months we’re actually living with Ivan’s folks in Winona Lake, Indiana, and cherish this time with them and our daughter (who lives in their basement apartment). However, with a lot of meetings yet in Michigan as well as all the packing still to do, we can often be found “north of the border”. Some of you have been checking out our website from time to time and we’re embarrassed to say we haven’t posted anything new in a very long time. But that will change! We’ll be using the website to let folks know what’s happening and what to pray for specifically. So if you haven’t checked out www.hoytsonline.com, we invite you to do that now! The only way to keep in touch at the beginning will be through e-mail: ihoyt@biblicalministries.org Once we have a place of our own, we’ll let you know the address. For the first few months, we’ll be living in the furnished one-bedroom apartment owned by Marcela, Kim’s language tutor. Again, thanks for your prayers! This is such an important piece of the missionary endeavor—we need God’s people standing with us in prayer. Muchas gracias!