Missions Conference

Glenn and Sherri McGhee visited us for a missions conference at our church. They shared some of the vision and strategy that they have used for planting churches in the Valley de los Chillos outside of Quito. They also challenged our church to get involved in missions by telling us about the teams that have gone from their churches to the San Blas islands of Panama. Many hearts were touched by the videos and sermons that Pastor Glenn shared.

Trip to Quito

In April we had the opportunity to go to Quito for a few days. While we were there we enjoyed the hospitality of missionaries Cliff and Neoma Mcghee, and visited with Glenn and Sherri McGhee as well. We got to visit a couple of churches in the McGhees' ministry. We especially enjoyed visiting the church in Mushuñan. Several years ago our supporting churches contributed to buy the property where the church meets, and now they have a beautiful building as well. I enjoyed preaching there and in the church in La Victoria.

Happy Easter!

Videos from VBS

Here are a couple of videos from Vacation Bible School. One shows the kids singing one of their favorites. The other shows a primary class learning Philippians 4:13.

Vacation Bible School

We just finished vacation Bible School. We had a great time! Evangelist David Proaño did a superb job with the music and Bible stories using his unique talents. 27 of our adults and teens served as teachers, helpers, transporters, and crowd control specialists. God blessed in many ways. We had more than 100 children attend, and a total of 152 people were at this Sunday's morning service.

Youth Retreat

The youth from our church had a great time and learned many valuable truths to apply in their lives when they enjoyed a weekend retreat at a nearby camp called "Los Cerros" (The Hills). Besides our church youth leaders, Luis and Melanea Mejía, three young Ecuadorian pastors colaborated for the music, games, preaching, and workshops. They all worked very hard on very little rest. We are very thankful.

Prayer Requests

I want to let you know about a few prayer requests for our ministry.
1) Joy and Teddy are in the States right now until March 30. Joy is completing follow-up appointments with her doctors and having a couple of tests done. Everything seems fine. Meanwhile, she is taking the opportunity to visit her parents and our kids and grandkids. Please pray for safety as they travel.
2) This weekend, March 12 to 14, we are having a youth retreat for our church teens and young adults. Please pray for a breakthrough in our youth for evangelism and service. This is an area where our church could grow a lot in the future. There will be a few unsaved kids at the retreat and we pray for their salvation. Pray for our pastor friends Patricio and Nikolay who will be teaching and preaching.
3) We will have Vacation Bible School for children from the 24th to 28th of March. We have a good team of teachers and a simple program planned for the kids. Pray that children will trust in Christ and will see godly Christlike examples to follow in our children's workers.