Hola, I hope you are well and enjoying the spring air. I have attached our January - March 2016 Newsletter with our ministry updates; we hope that you will take a minute to read it. Thank you for investing and partnering with us in this endeavor that the Lord has called us to do in Ecuador. Please remember we cannot do this without you, WE are a team.
We pray for you daily, but if you have specific prayer requests, please let us know as we believe in the power of prayer and would love to pray more specifically for you.
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Hola, I hope you are well and enjoying the spring air. I have attached our January - March 2016 Newsletter with our ministry updates; we hope that you will take a minute to read it. Thank you for investing and partnering with us in this endeavor that the Lord has called us to do in Ecuador. Please remember we cannot do this without you, WE are a team.
We pray for you daily, but if you have specific prayer requests, please let us know as we believe in the power of prayer and would love to pray more specifically for you.
Please like us on Facebook and check our daily updates on Facebook. Also, please feel free to share our newsletter on your Facebook page or email to a friend.
Hola, I hope you are well and enjoying the spring air. I have attached our January - March 2016 Newsletter with our ministry updates; we hope that you will take a minute to read it. Thank you for investing and partnering with us in this endeavor that the Lord has called us to do in Ecuador. Please remember we cannot do this without you, WE are a team.
We pray for you daily, but if you have specific prayer requests, please let us know as we believe in the power of prayer and would love to pray more specifically for you.
Please like us on Facebook and check our daily updates on Facebook. Also, please feel free to share our newsletter on your Facebook page or email to a friend.
Greetings everyone from Ecuador! Happy spring (US) or fall
(Ecuador) to you. Many of you know that we are in the States for our daughters wedding. We are also using this time to do a partial itineration (raise money for the ministry) by speaking in churches,meeting with our supporters and possible future supporters. It is a wonderful, but very busy time for us. We have also enjoyed having Paola from Ecuador with us for part of the time. Exciting news! First, we sold our home last November! Secondly, we have two new Bible Clubs. We started a once a month (for now) youth club in the San Jos community where we average about 16 teenagers. We also have a new kids bible club in the community of La Florida every Tuesday. This remote village is made up of Quichua people and we meet in a little tiny mud brick building with one string light; there is no evangelical church in this area. In our 1st meeting we had twenty seven children and twenty four adults in attendance.
On our fourth week of driving to the
club, we recognized a young boy from the club, standing by the main road (still a long way from the club). We stopped and picked him up. We asked if he was waiting on us and he said yes, he knew we would be coming so he waited for us. We could not believe how far this boy has to walk to get to our club every week. WOW! We need a van!After working in remote villages for over two years now we have out grown our truck. The ministry has grown so much that we need extra help from the local community, but our truck is too small, the public bus transportation does not go to the remote villages in which we work and the local people do not own vehicles. So we prayed diligently about purchasing a 12-passenger van that would provide additional passenger space for transporting local volunteers and small visiting mission teams.
We bought a van!Late last year, the
ministrys Board of Directors determined that that the purchase of a 12-passenger van was necessary and beneficial to the growth and purpose of the ministry work in Ecuador. After much prayer we purchased a used, 2014 Hyundai H1, diesel, 12-passenger diesel. This van came fully loaded and, was outfitted with all the extras we needed. We were also able to sell our truck. Praise the Lord! The van has already proven itself a blessing as we used it to transport our last few small missions teams (did not have to hire transportation), we picked up kids along the way to our kids bible clubs and we were able to take four local couples with us to help us in several of our kids bible clubs. How can you help with the van balance? After the purchase of the van & the sale of our truck, there is still a small balance. If you feel compelled to help zero out that balance, you can send your tax-deductible donation designated as van to the information listed at the bottom. Thank you for your consideration. Prayer requests: Building of our local Ecuadorian ministry team. Our financial supporters and future supporter growth.
Open doors to new communities to minister.
2016 missions teams/interns Long-term missionary help. Our Stateside/Overseas Children
How can we pray for you?
Please feel free to call us, email us and let us know how we can pray for you or just say Hi. Blessings,
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