The DeWeese Family

Some of you have expressed a desire to get to know the DeWeese family better as a result of our decision to serve alongside them in Buenos Aires. Here is their contact information and you'd be welcome to include them in your circle of friends, as we do!

(Photo, L to R): Greg, Jaden Luke, Ethan Bud, Laile

DeWeese@worldventure.net

We are blessed to know them and to have them in our lives. We encourage you to get on their email list of prayer supporters so you can get their updates and photos. We would enjoy seeing them receive that kind of a response from those who know & love US!

Here are some of the things that we had to say to WorldVenture on our debrief forms about the DeWeeses (the posted comments are parts of longer answers we had on the forms so it might not all flow - just go with it!).


Jordan said: I wanted to encourage Greg and Laile DeWeese as they continue to work in Buenos Aires which I had heard was a very difficult field to work in ... Our goals were met and exceded in almost every way. I believe that we were very encouraging to Greg and Laile, personally and in their ministry ... Our friendship and compatibility with Greg and Laile is very strong. Greg, Marie and I had known each other well in college, but our friendship deepened as we shared our lives together over the course of the 2 and a half weeks in Argentina. Our passions line up with their passions and our style is very similar, even down to the way we parent our children ... There was a period of time when Megan and Jaden realized that they had a sin nature and it started to come out against each other. It was interesting because I don't think either of them had been in a situation where they spent so much regular time with another person of their similar age. It became a bit of a challenge to parent Megan as she showed selfishness toward Jaden, while we were in a culture where we wanted to be discreet about how we parented our child ... I was very encouraged and motivated in my spiritual life and my life as a parent by being with Greg. He is a passionate disciple of Christ who loves the Word of God. Being around him made me love the Word more and motivated me to study it more ... Greg and Laile were fantastic. We felt very much welcomed by them and they were great in taking us around to learn about the culture and their ministry. I would be honored to serve with Greg as the field chair of my ministry and also after hearing him preach on Sunday, I would be honored to have him as my pastor ... One specific way the experience changed me was to see how many opportunities I miss in parenting Megan and Micah. Greg and Laile are very intentional in their parenting and I realized that I can be much more so in my parenting as well ...


Marie said: Greg & Laile expressed and showed much encouragement and excitement as a result of our visit and interest in their lives and they have expressed that they want us to come back and be part of "Team Buenos Aires" ... we thoroughly enjoyed getting to know the DeWeeses on a deeper level ... I loved hearing Greg DeWeese preach the Sunday we attended their English speaking church in Buenos Aires. God has been so faithful to him. I've known Greg since college, but to see him as a husband and father and a gifted, passionate, holy man of God - a true pastor - was a blessing to the depths of my soul ... It was good for me to spend some time alone with Laile DeWeese and to get a perspective from a wife and mom of young children about missionary life which is so different from my memories of my own MK experience. I walked away from Buenos Aires wanting to pursue a deeper friendship with her … which, after 17 days of being together constantly, is probably a gift from God - for both of us ... Greg and Laile were wonderful to us … they opened up their home, time and their lives to our very loud family, on the heels of some rather crazy weeks of traveling, hosting another family, and a decent-sized change in ministry obligations. I can imagine that we threw a few wrenches into their routine and rhythm, but we never once felt as though they resented it and we felt very welcome to be ourselves around them. I noticed that Greg is a great team player and when he had an idea of how to go about doing something, then another idea would be brought up that was different, he was always humble enough to entertain or go with the new idea if it worked. It empowered me to speak up and say what I really thought instead of worrying about "what is he going to say about this idea?" I learned to trust Greg's heart while we were over there and how to communicate with him and that was a blessing to me. I also learned how to entrust my heart to Laile while we were there. I shared some really deep and personal things with her on several occasions and I felt understood and loved, not judged or ignored. I also appreciated Laile's honesty about her frustrations about living in Buenos Aires, so I got a more realistic picture of what life there could be like for my family. She and Greg didn't try to paint such a rosy picture that we would fall in love with a city without knowing the truths about life there. It was nice not to be pressured to make a decision either. I think God had more freedom to work in our hearts because of the open invitation, without the pressure. They shared with us that their philosophy of team ministry would look more like a cohesive team all working together, living their lives together, instead of having two or more couples who are called a team, but are functioning in totally separate locations and ministries. This is a perfect fit with how we view ourselves working with a team in the future. We know that even though we would have different roles than Greg & Laile would on a team, we would still be working together, not apart. That really appeals to us ...