Out of all three of our churches here, not even one of our members owns a vehicle. Therefore everyone that comes to our services walks. I knew this prior to my arrival in Ecuador. But what I did not know is how far a lot of them have to walk. So, after a recent service

Yesterday at the Talin church, I commented to Ana Lucia that I liked the shoes she was wearing. With her reaction, you’d have thought she was wearing Jimmy Choo’s! She began to tell me what a blessing those shoes were. She said about 2 weeks ago, her sister-in-law and brother were in Puyo, and literally,

Just a few weeks after my arrival in Ecuador, the true extent of poverty here reached into my world and gripped me to the very core. We were on the city bus, headed to Shell, Ecuador, to go and pray for someone in the hospital. Not very far into our journey an older gentleman boarded

Although all of the children here have stolen my heart, 9 year old Santiago has probably inspired me the most since my arrival. Santiago is a member of our church in Puyupungo. He has been attending the church for about four months now. For the first three months he walked the thirty minutes from his

One of our church members, Ana Lucia, planted a lovely garden out behind the church in Talin. She has planted beans, pineapples and papachinas in the vegetable garden. She said she loves to work in the dirt with her hands. She also has numerous flowers planted around the church because she loves to look at