Langham Preaching, one of the programmes of Langham Partnership International has announced the appointment of Igor Amestegui as the Regional Facilitator for Latin America.

The appointment has come as the ministry recognises the growing desire of Latin America's churches to "equip a new generation of Bible expositors".

The role of the Regional Facilitator, LPI said, is "to encourage the development of national preaching movements in the countries of Latin America, serving existing ministries and supporting the development of new initiatives".

Amestegui lives in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and is a trained psychologist. He has served as the General Secretary of Communidad Cristiana Universitaria (the IFES related student ministry in Bolivia) for 15 years.

More recently, Amestegui has worked as a professor at the university and as a psychologist in private practice. Significantly, LPI has said, he has been very involved in the emergence of the preaching movement in Bolivia, encouraging "escuelitas de formacion de expositores Biblicos" (small schools for the training of Bible expositors), both in his own church and more widely in the training of pastors and leaders in the city of Cochabamba.

He works in fellowship with CCM in the preaching training programme, and has close contact with other Latin American countries which have begun training initiatives, including the ministry initiated by Jorge Atiencia in Colombia.

Amestegui and his wife, Charito, are currently in the process of becoming affiliated to the Latin Link team in Bolivia, but he will be working full time to support and develop the indigenous preaching movements, in fellowship with national leaders country by country, and in liaison with Langham America Latina.

He will be part of the team of Langham Partnership International, working alongside colleagues around the world who share his vision for the growth of a new generation of Bible expositors worldwide.

For more information please visit: www.langhampartnership.org/preaching