Durazno · Weekly
Weekly services
Sunday school, main services, midweek prayer, and Saturday youth meetings at Iglesia Bautista Bíblica downtown.
The Ministry
A church plant in the heart of Durazno.
Slow, relational, Word-centered work — and a congregation beginning to reach its own community.
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Living rooms · Ongoing
Home Bible studies
The heartbeat of the work — Scripture opened over mate in living rooms, where secular Uruguayans feel free to ask honest questions.
Community outreach
Open-air VBS & outreach
Vacation Bible schools, puppet ministry, and street outreach that bring children and their families through the door.
Counseling ministry
Biblical counseling
Jo Anna's counseling ministry serves women, teens, and children walking through the fractures of Uruguayan family life.
From the field
Stories from the work
Fourteen foster children, one open door
Across the street from the church sits a foster home. Over a single term, more than fourteen foster children came through the church's doors and were given the Gospel — children who had never once heard that God made them and loves them. Many carried that seed with them when they moved on to new homes across Uruguay.
The mural that preaches on the sidewalk
On the front of the building, a mural of the Good Shepherd carries the words of Jesus: "Come unto me… and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28). People stop to take selfies in front of it. Some step inside to ask about it. In a nation searching for rest, the building itself has become a witness on a downtown street.
Mate, asado, and the long road to reach men
Uruguayan men are nearly impossible to reach through programs — but nearly everyone will come to an asado. Around the grill and over shared mate, walls come down and conversations turn to eternal things. It is slow work, but it is how disciples are made in Uruguay.
The vision · Durazno, Uruguay
A church that plants churches.
The goal has never been one congregation. The Harmons pray to raise up the next generation of national leadership, to see a genuine Christian community and culture take root in Durazno, and to watch this church reproduce other vibrant churches throughout Uruguay's interior.
Pray for this vision