Date for Carla's Surgery

Please be praying for our daughter Carla, age 9. She will be having open-heart surgery to repair an atrial septal defect on October 8. She will be at U Va Medical Center in Charlottesville, VA. We are very thankful for the doctors that God has provided for Carla. We also have strong local support from the Mountain View Chapel church family that has been extremely generous in taking care of us while we are in the Charlottesville area. We are greatly blessed by our extended family and our wide-ranging team of supporters who hold us before God's throne in prayer.

Arriving in the USA

Thanks to all of you for your prayers as we begin our time in the USA. We arrived in Washington, DC to the great surprise of two daughters and four grandchildren at the airport to meet us! They had traveled from Ohio to be there. Also Pastors Tim and Tom from our host church in Virginia, and Tim's daughter Megan. We traveled a couple of hours to the Charlottesville area, and a great group from Mountain View Chapel greeted us warmly. What a beautiful a home they have prepared for us! We got to spend a few days with our grandchildren. Joy's parents also traveled from Tennessee to visit us this week.
Carla had an echo-cardiogram in preparation for her surgery. We will meet with her cardiologist on August 27. We will keep you posted on the plans.
Besides Carla's surgery we have a lot to do before beginning to visit churches in mid-September. Thank you for your prayers.
Tony

Visas!

We've been praying, waiting, and working for a long time to get these visa packets for Carla and Matthew. We are very excited to be traveling to the States soon for Carla's heart surgery, family time, and reporting to our great support team around the USA.

Baptisms

It's always great to give testimony to the power of the Gospel by baptism. We love to see lives changed forever by the resurrected Christ. When they are baptized, they are painting a picture of what Jesus did for them when he died and rose again.

Evangelism and Outreach

Our church supports the David Proaño family. They are missionary street evangelists who do a great job of presenting the Gospel in many ways, and in many settings all over Ecuador and other South American countries. This month they were working with a visiting group from the United States. The group used martial arts demonstrations to present the Gospel. Many people were saved during the campaign and our church family was fully involved in all of their work in and around Manta.

Evangelist David Proaño

On Sunday, June 30, Evangelist David Proaño was our guest. He and his family are missionary-evangelists with Open Air Campaigners. They do a great job of presenting the Gospel in unique ways all over Ecuador and in other countries of South America. His excellent sermon focused on the true Gospel in comparison with the confusing and erroneous messages of the world's religions. Here is one great point he made: Religion is summed up in the instruction, DO! by men trying to reach and please God; the Gospel is the Good News, DONE! by Christ on the Cross. We are thankful that our church is able to have a part in the financial support of missionaries like the Proaño family.

Father's Day 2013

We encourage families to get their picture taken at church on Mother's Day and Father's Day. Each year the number of families waiting to pose gets bigger. Joy makes the photos into beautiful cards that we print out for each family.

This picture is unique. Wilton and Mónica have three children, but they recently became house parents of Montañita Verde Children's Home. Here they are posing with their own kids plus six! Every Sunday they load up the truck and make the drive to Sunday School and church. They are doing a great job and we would appreciate your prayers for them.