San Geronimo Missional House - Montevideo

Staff ID82165
LocationMontevideo, Uruguay
E-Mailmattymaria@redfacil.com.uy

To join San Geronimo Missional House - Montevideo's support team, click HERE. You can find their names listed under "Missionaries & Projects" in the list of giving options. Thanks!

What is San Geronimo?

This 18-acre estate with two houses and outbuildings, set in nature, forty minutes from Montevideo along the coastal highway, is an inviting location with unique physical surroundings where encounters with Christ are happening on a frequent basis.  

This house originally belonged to Scottish missionary and businessman, Stuart Heath and his wife Irene, and their sister, Dr. Gwen Shepherd. They constructed the estate in 1972 with a view toward rest and spiritual renewal for themselves and their friends. Stuart Heath was instrumental in starting Intervarsity Fellowship in Argentina in the 1940's. His sister-in-law Gwen was a close personal friend of Corrie Ten Boom and the founder of a Children's Hospital for polio victims in the 1950's epidemic in Buenos Aires.  

Since their passing in recent years, the family has sought to sell the estate with hopes that it might be of service in Christ's Kingdom in Uruguay and beyond. The current owner, Claude Shepherd, aged 95, lives in London, England, and is a friend of this ministry.  

In a nutshell, these 18 acres are becoming a place where people from our community and wider circle of friends, people from post-Christian and post-modern environments, are encountering Jesus Christ through conversation, creativity, reflection, and retreat, and where up-and-coming generations are steeped in grace and come out smelling like Jesus.  

What is stopping this place from becoming a shaping force in the creative and spiritual discourse in the region and the continent? Nothing.

What happens at San Geronimo?

The House has leadership formation, creative outreach, and spiritual retreat as its central heartbeats...

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By focusing on three main initiatives, we believe the House will be an integral part in changing the spiritual landscape of Uruguay.  
  1. Retreats and Conversations aimed at the evangelization of the post-modern,post-Christian population.  
  2. Retreats and encounters aimed at forming and nurturing missional leaders.  
  3. Spaces focused on growing missional church-planting initiatives reaching into the global emerging culture in the Southern Cone (Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay).

The mission of San Geronimo is to connect the classic disciplines of the Christian faith, leadership coaching, and creativity development within a missional framework to reach out to the emerging culture in the region and to inspire and form leaders of missional initiatives throughout the continent.   

Over the coming years, we are praying and working to see San Geronimo become a place that will

  • Serve as a seedbed for missional church-planting movements in the Southern Cone.
  • Bless, inspire, train, and coach nascent missional initiatives.
  • Foster a generation of Uruguayan Christian thinkers and creatives imbued with the Holy Spirit, high creative function, and courage, who can tackle societal problems by more fully incarnating Christ into society.
  • Gift the Latin American church and Latin America as a whole with brilliant theologians, artists, writers, businesspersons, and agents of social change.
  • Anchor retreat and spiritual formation within the culture of Uruguayan evangelicalism.
  • Bless the surrounding local communities through leadership development of spiritual leaders and entrepreneurs as well as through the encouragement of micro-business.
  • Become fully self-sufficient and support a two-person staff within three years.  

How can you become a part of the San Geronimo Advocacy and Prayer Team?

CA Latin America is praying for 12 people who will walk this journey with us, and who will take this project into their heart like one of their own children. These people will help us:

  • organize promotional events to raise awareness and discover the resources necessary to carry out the project. These can be small group meetings, concerts, art shows, 5K races, church gatherings, you name it.
  • prayerfully consider how God would have you partner & participate in giving toward the needed $350,000 to make this vision become a reality (see next article).
  • help raise the $350,000 necessary for this phase of the project
  • help train and lead short-term teams to minister and work at San Geronimo.
  • help recruit short and long-term personnel to help staff San Geronimo.
  • help with the architectural and interior design and sustainability issues
  • lead workshops for leadership training, artistic development, and micro-business, among others.
  • help open doors for me to present the project and develop the resource team.

If you would like to become part of this team, or learn more about the San Geronimo Missional House, please email Matt Daniels.  

To learn more about the Daniels click here