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<\/a><\/p>\nand the second stop will be Tumunan Lodge in Chile. We will be working there in exchange for room and board! It\u2019s our first Workaway<\/a> job. It\u2019s located in the Andes, has fly fishing, horseback riding and it\u2019s own little vineyard. We aren\u2019t sure what all we\u2019ll be doing, but it could be anything from general lodge cleaning, cooking, garden tending, to helping in the vineyard, to helping guide guests on fishing trips. The owner was also excited that we have marketing and graphic design backgrounds, so probably a little of that thrown in too. They have a couple horses on property which they say I can ride in my free time! Oh, and did I mention they do wine tours of the Colchagua Valley? We start on April 15, so more to come. Here\u2019s the website if you want to check it out: http:\/\/www.tumunanlodge.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n Anyway, since mid-March we have been here in San Martin de Los Andes, Argentina. We are volunteering with a Christian ministry here started by a friend of Rick\u2019s, Pablo. Rick met Pablo about ten years ago; Pablo was the translator for a 10 week mission trip Rick went on to La Plata, outside of Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n And as we studied the situation, we came to the conclusion that Pablo needed a new target audience, and we got leadership to agree on that!! (ok, marketing nerdiness \u2013 but that\u2019s HUGE!). The leadership has even asked that we rethink all of the courses for the year \u2013 all new topics \u2013 and I\u2019m taking the lead on that! It\u2019s very exciting. So we have developed a whole new marketing strategy, course content, radio ads, Facebook content and strategy, rebranded everything, including the website, logo, flyers, everything!<\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0Pablo saw a huge need in this area of Argentina for people to be able to understand and apply the bible to their lives in a transformational way. Traditionally here the only way people hear the bible is through a sermon on Sunday at church. This area, and Patagonia as a whole, is very cut off from the outside world \u2013 mostly due to the government. Importing anything is crazy expensive, sending any kind of package here means you have to pay 50% of its value in import fees (we speak from experience on that \u2013 long story!), and outside information or goods are not taken kindly to. So there is just not any resource for people to know how to read the bible, or how it can transform their life.<\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0So Pablo started a bible school here, and we learned earlier this year that it has been struggling to get attendance and really take off. Pablo asked if we were in Argentina if we would like to come help \u2013 sort of a consulting job, see what the situation is, what improvements might help, give some marketing advice and redesign the website and materials. So that\u2019s what we\u2019ve been working on for the last few weeks. Rick has designed an incredible website that will really draw people in and engage them! We were able to share with Pablo a lot of the successes we\u2019ve seen with equipping classes at Watermark.<\/p>\n