OUR PLAN
Operation Santiago was established for the purpose of developing a stronghold for God that would serve as a catalyst for world-evangelism. Our goals are winning individuals, planting local churches, discipling new converts, and training capable disciples for the ministry.
• Statement of Faith
• Vision
• Involvement
• Chile Challenge
• Evangelistic English Classes
• Student Assistant
Missionary
• Statement of Faith
• Vision
• Involvement
• Chile Challenge
• Evangelistic English Classes
• Student Assistant Missionary
Reaching the world – Through its key cities – One person at a time
Our starting place is Santiago, but our goal is the world.
Reaching the world - Spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ through evangelism so that each individual has the opportunity to hear the message of salvation clearly.
Through it key cities – Establishing strong local churches within every community. The goal of each church is to reach its community, train leaders, and send forth laborers.
One person at a time – Training men and women to be disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ. To help them live victorious Christian lives and to reproduce themselves in others.
• Alsto Family
• Holt Family
• Kenney Family
• McBryar Family
• Ivan Chocon
Where do you fit into the plan? The Operation Santiago team currently needs young people who would volunteer for short term missionary work or career missionary service. You can participate in pioneer church planting, soul-wining and discipleship, evangelistic English classes, or help in one of the many annual ministry events in Chile.
Chile Challenge – High school/ College Missions Trips. Spend a week in Santiago with the Operation Santiago Team during the summer. You will have the opportunity to get involved in the various ministries, sight seeing, and classes on missions taught by missionaries on the field.
Evangelistic English Classes– Before being tied down in a teaching career spend some time in Santiago teaching English. English classes will help draw out people in the community that would not normally come to a church service. It is an avenue by which we can reach people.
Student Assistant Missionary – Spend a summer or six months to a year working side by side with the missionary. This will give you the opportunity to learn another language, experience another culture, and give additional life experience that will make an excellent addition to a future resume.
For the ladies this could be helping the missionary wife in the area of education, shopping, or ladies’ ministries.
For the men this could be helping in the area of evangelism, youth ministry, and the practical everyday duties of the missionary.
Part of the Great Commission is to teach all nations. Our desire is to teach the doctrines and truths held in Scripture regardless of the opinions or whims of society.
The Scriptures
The Scriptures are the Old and New Testament as contained in the sixty-six books of the canon. The Scriptures are verbally inspired by God, and are our sole authority of faith and practice. Just as God has inspired His Word by breathing it upon holy men of old, God has preserved His Word through the faithfulness of men of God and churches that have purely copied the Scriptures throughout history.
For reasons of textual reliability only Bibles that are based upon the Masoretic Hebrew text and the Traditional Received Greek texts are acceptable for use (such as the King James Version in English).
Supporting passages 2 Timothy 3:16; 1 Peter 1:21
God
There is only one God who exists in three distinct, yet equal persons. This Trinitarian Godhead is eternal and harmonious in nature. God who is the Creator of this world has extended mercy and grace to fallen man to bring to fruition the great work of Redemption.
Supporting passages 1 John 5:7; Deuteronomy 6:4; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Colossians 1:12,13
The Person and Work of Christ
Jesus Christ is the Son of God - He is God. He is eternal in existence, and perfect in attributes. He was begotten of the Father, conceived of the Holy Ghost, and born of the virgin Mary. He lived a perfect, sinless life. His death on the cross is the only way of redemption for man. He arose from the grave and is now seated on the right hand of the throne of God where he constantly intercedes as the high priest for those who come unto Him believing.
Supporting passages John 3:16; John 10:31, Romans 5:8,9; Hebrews 7:24,25
The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is a person of the Godhead. He is eternal and coequal with the Father and the Son. His ministry is to convict of sin, regenerate the lost, seal the believer, sanctify the saint, guide in truth, comfort in trials, and empower in service. The Holy Spirit is the part of God that indwells the believer from the point of salvation to glorification. We receive the complete indwelling of the Holy Spirit. However, the work of the Holy Spirit in a believer’s life can be grieved or quenched by a lack of yielding.
Supporting Passages John 16:7-14; Ephesians 4:30; Romans 8:9; Acts 1:8
Salvation and Security of the Believer
There is no other way of salvation except “by grace through faith” in the work of Christ on Calvary. Salvation is a gift of God to whosoever will. It can not be bought, earned, or found inside a church denomination. It is only received when an individual comes to God in repentance and faith. Once saved an individual is positionally placed in Christ and sealed by the Holy Spirit “until the day of Redemption.” Because salvation is not a work of man, but rather a work of God he is eternally secure, and unable to lose his salvation.
Supporting passages Ephesians 2:8,9; John 10:28
The Church
The Church is the Body of Christ visibly organized into local assemblies of baptized believers united together in faith and practice for the worship of the Savior, the fulfilling of the Great Commission, the observance of ordinances, and the exercise of spiritual gifts. The churches are autonomous and independent from any kind of ecclesiastical authority. The offices consist of the pastor who is the overseer, and the deacons who assist and serve in the administration. In order to fulfill God’s will that men are saved from every nation and tribe, we must be diligent in the establishment and continuance of local churches.
Supporting passages Ephesians 1:22,23; 1 Corinthians 12:12-14; Titus 1:5
The Ordinances of the Local Church
There are two ordinances given to the local church - Baptism by immersion for the professing believer as an outward sign of their faith, and the Lord’s Supper as a memorial for the death of Christ.
Supporting passages I Corinthians 11:23-30; Acts 2:41,42; Matthew 28:19,20
The Personality of Satan
Satan is a real being who is currently at work on earth to disrupt the work of redemption. He is a created being, as one of the heavenly host that fell in rebellion. He is a deceiver who blinds the minds of the lost, and is an adversary that accuses the Redeemed. He is destined for the Lake of Fire that has been specifically prepared for his eternal damnation.
Supporting passages 2 Corinthians 4:4; 1 Peter 5:8; Matthew 25:41
The Eternal State
Every soul of man is eternal and will spend eternity in one of two places. The eternal state of the Redeemed will be in the presence of the Lord. There will be a new heaven and a new earth in which will dwell all saints of all dispensations. We will experience eternal peace and bliss with our Lord “in ages to come.” In contrast, those who die rejecting God’s plan of salvation will experience utter separation and eternal torment in the Lake of Fire after being judged at the Great White Throne. This is called the second death.
Supporting passages Revelation 21,22
The Second Coming of Christ
The next major event to take place in church history is the rapture. This is the coming of our Lord for His Bride. It will be pretribulational, premillennial, imminent, and bodily. It will be followed by seven years of tribulation on the earth and the coming of our Lord with His saints in power and glory to the earth.
Supporting passages 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
The Millennium
After the seven-year tribulation period Christ will return to the earth to fulfill prophecy as the Son of David to sit upon David‘s throne. He will rule the earth for a thousand years bringing every nation under His submission. It will be a kingdom of spiritual blessing and peace. The millennium will end with the final battle in which Satan and his forces are defeated and cast into the lake of fire.
Supporting passages Revelation 20, Daniel 7:14
The Great Commission
The Great Commission is the command from the Lord to propagate the gospel to the world. In order to completely fulfill this commission we must not only take the gospel, but also teach and disciple converts. The principle of indigenous church planting is to be followed. Social improvements are an inevitable by-product of missions, but are not the fulfilling of the Great Commission. It is the responsibility of each believer to take part in this great task by either going or sending.
Supporting passages Matthew 28:19,20; 2 Timothy 2:2; Acts 3:6
Ecclesiastical Separation
As believers we ought to maintain a testimony that brings glory to Christ, and no offense to the unsaved and weak. We must separate from any habits or worldly pleasures that compromise an effective witness. We must separate from any religious movement that does not adhere to fundamental doctrinal positions.
Supporting passages Romans 16:17; 2 Timothy 3:14; 3 John
The Ecumenical Movement
Ecumenism is a movement whose goal is to unite all churches regardless of doctrine or practice. The World Council of Churches whose end goal is to bring together all world religions spearheads it.
Such a movement is wrong and contrary to Scripture. One of the uniting factors in the early church was the steadfast continuance in the apostles’ doctrine. To forsake biblical truth would be apostate and lead to confusion and ineffectiveness.
The Charismatic Movement
The Charismatic movement is a loosely affiliated group of non denominational churches that focuses strongly on the supernatural gifts that were given to the apostles as being applicable and available today. They are instrumental in the ecumenical movement by uniting people through shared experience rather than doctrinal truth.
Such a movement is wrong under the basis of: 1) They seek the sign gifts of which some were for the unbelieving Jew, and promised to cease upon the perfect canon of Scripture. 2) They promote extra-Biblical, authoritative revelation. 3) They claim a “focus on Jesus” that paves the way to ecumenism.
Neo-Evangelicalism
Neo-evangelicalism is an attempt to make evangelical teachings more palatable to the modernist and liberal. While they hold some of the Bible to be true they do not guarantee it to be an authority in matters of science and history.
This is a teaching of compromise because it attempts to bring hand in hand the orthodox with the liberal through many para-church organizations such as Promise Keepers, and crusades.
