Uruguay – Ariel Acosta

Uruguay Update Sep/2024


ARIEL & YEANETE ACOSTA

In 2005, Ariel Acosta was hired as the webmaster and hosting provider for Spanish World Ministries. His company was operating in Uruguay, but he constantly assisted us in different aspects related to the Internet. Though his business was a good source of income, Ariel and Yeanete enjoyed serving in their church. Eventually, they felt the desire to invest more time in serving the Lord. About four years ago, His business started a decline in the number of clients. So Ariel was confronted with finding a solution. Probably, he could search for new clients to improve his business, but the Lord was opening new opportunities for both of them to serve in their home church. At the same time, Eduardo and Noreen Peirano, our former missionaries in Uruguay, retired in 2020. As we prayed for a new missionary to represent the ministry, the Board of directors considered Ariel and his wife as good candidates to replace the Peiranos. After praying and interviewing the Acostas, they felt that the Lord was clearly showing them that their time would be better invested serving the Lord full-time than owning an Internet business. Since 2021, Ariel and Yeanet have been serving as missionaries of SWM in Uruguay. They serve in an ultimately secularist society. It means that finding radio stations willing to broadcast our programs for free in their country is almost impossible. Currently, we have 30 radio stations that air our programs. Nevertheless, Ariel constantly visits radio stations and encourages churches to use our programs as evangelistic tools.

The Acostas officially became SWM missionaries in Uruguay

At the beginning of 2022, the Acostas officially became SWM missionaries in Uruguay. For several years Ariel has been involved in specific areas related to the Internet. But after the retirement of our former missionaries, the Peiranos, Ariel decided to take the responsibility to represent the ministry, increasing the distribution of our programs through the […]

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“We do not accept religious material” this type of answer is heard every time when our missionary in Uruguay tries to visit radio stations

When our missionaries visit secular radio stations to introduce our programs, quite often the immediate answer is “we do not accept religious material”. In a secularist society as Uruguay, Eduardo hears this type of answer every time he tries to establish contact with the directors of the radio stations. However, he also understands that somehow […]

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Only 11% of the population claim to be Evangelicals in Uruguay

During the first part of this year Eduardo visited 19 radio stations to introduce our programs. Five station were added to our data base increasing to 60 the number of stations broadcasting our programs. This numbers acquire a special relevance when according to the last census 47% of the population claim to be Roman Catholics […]

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A listener from Uruguay that was released from jail shares his testimony with us

Since my wife and I decided to serve the Lord several years ago, our ultimate goal has been to share with many people as possible the message of salvation. He has used our lives in many ways, but since we became missionaries with Spanish World Ministries, we realized that through the broadcasting of our radio […]

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Believer testifies that Cornelio Rivera’s teachings are continuously heard between the border of Uruguay and Argentina

During the first quarter of the year I have visited twelve radio stations. Although none of them accepted to air the programs, three stations that canceled their transmission were recovered. It is quite disappointing when I travel several miles to introduce our programs, only to find out that the only radio station in town is […]

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