The LaRue Family

My name is Vince LaRue, and my wife is Kathie. We have three sons: Nathan, James, and Asa. We are church-planting missionaries to Southern Chile, and it is our desire to preach the gospel to every creature, via printed material, door-to-door evangelism, and continual public preaching in every plaza and park throughout the cities and towns of our region.

The LORD allowed me to visit Chile in 2005, when I was 17 years old. At the time it was a simple missions trip; an opportunity to use my two years of high school Spanish and experience Latin American culture, as well as visit a Bible-believing missionary and hopefully encourage him and his family. However, the LORD had much more planned. By the end of the trip, I knew that the LORD was calling me to Chile, and the rest of my teenage years and early adulthood were spent with that singular goal in mind.

We finally arrived in Chile as a family of four on the 25th of December, 2015, after slightly less than three years of deputation (part- and full-time combined). Our goals have been to get up to speed on the language and culture, and to establish residency here. Also, and even more importantly, we’re working under a veteran missionary (in Chile since 2004) and alongside established national churches, while I study in a Spanish-language, Seminary-level Bible Institute. This time has been invaluable in learning not just Spanish, but “Chilenses” (the infinite idioms used by Chileans), and most importantly, the Spanish Bible.

Upon our return in 2020, our plan is to begin planting a church in the city of Osorno, Chile, in the Xº (tenth) Región, south of where we’ve been working in Valdivia. There are (currently) no Independent Baptist churches established in this city of well over 160,000.

Our hope is that the LORD will show us the people that He has chosen for this work to affect, and that we can begin working His way as soon as we return. Otherwise, we will begin with renting a meeting place (or a house large enough in which to hold services) and start holding services and evangelistic outreaches, in addition to the continual work of distributing tracts and preaching publicly.

Since we already know the people, the culture, and since I speak Spanish (and “Chilenses”) fluently, we’ll be ready to begin the work as soon as we arrive. It is our hope that the LORD will see fit to use us in His work immediately, and we are praying even now that He would prepare the ground for our planting of the “incorruptible seed” of the word of God.