January – March 2017 Newsletter
Hola mis amigos! We have arrived
safely back in Ecuador at the end
summer, which has Dena excited about
some warmer weather.
What have we been up to? We spent
three months in the U.S. on itineration
(raising money) for the ministry. We
drove over 10,000 miles in order to share
about the ministry with pastors, church
leaders, mission teams, children, youth,
small groups and individuals in church
services, homes and restaurants. We can’t
say thank you enough to all who hosted us
in your homes, allowed us to speak in your
churches and those who set up various
meetings. We are excited about what God
will do with the efforts spent over these
past months for the future of this ministry in Ecuador.
God is faithful! God continues to work through our Ecuadorian
ministry team of Paola, Leslie and
Kevin. While we were in the States,
our team continued to teach and run
our bible clubs. At Christmas they
handed out gifts that included a
soccer ball for the boys and a doll for
the girls along with other items to all
of the kids. Leslie even made over
200 festive cupcakes for the kids.
Other News: We have started a
ladies bible club in one of our existing villages. These are un-
churched women that wanted to learn more about the bible.
It’s so wonderful since these
women have been told all of
their lives that the Priest will
read the bible to them, but now
they want to learn to read it and
understand it for themselves.
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Praise Reports? 1) The Lord goes
before us! Were told in back
November that the Priest had
gone to the community president
and requested to take over the
community center’s calendar
where we hold a kids, youth and ladies bible club. However,
the community president, a non-believer, but his kids and wife
attend our bible clubs, stood up to the priest and told him no.
Please understand what a brave and wonderful move this was
because if the priest had been able to control the community
center’s calendar, it is very likely that his plan was to keep us
from holding our three bible clubs in that community center.
2) A new Church building! In one of our remote villages there
is a small group of indigenous people meeting in a very tiny
mud block building for church services. It’s
a new church plant and also a location in
which we have a bible club for kids and
adults. On a recent mission trip last year,
our home church pastor felt led to raise
the funds necessary to help this new church plant construct a
church building. Praise the Lord, when our pastor put the need
before the church; they raised enough money to construct a
church building for the people to meet in, plus
some to help another pastor with no building.
This will give our kids club a bigger place to
meet in and it will allow the church in this
village to grow.
Prayer requests:
• Our financial supporters and future supporter growth.
• The children, teens and adults in our bible clubs will accept
Christ this year.
• 2017-2018 missions teams & missionary interns.
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.
A Message to our ministry partners: We are so grateful to
those of you who partner with us in your time, helps, prayer
and financial giving.
Blessings, Gary & Dena
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