Busy times

Dearest family and Friends, We would like to thank you all for your continued support, these have been busy times for us the last few months. Our gathering from a few days back with the three Ecuadorian conferences ended up being a wonderful time. We were able to get to know each other all a …

Peace Building work continues

Dearest friends and family: We have continued to dream about and work towards more peace building work here in Ecuador. The reality of waves of violence continues to settle little by little, but steadily, on our work, relationships and the congregations here, and it is something that we aren’t accustomed to obviously. But, this is …

Christmas in Quito

We arrived in Quito on October 7th, getting back to our activities here. I (Delicia) started going to Jardines del Inca neighborhood to work together with Alba Silva in the after school program. When we were in the States I mentioned that we are using the neighborhood Casa Communal, but that we have a shipping …

New Era, sorta

It has now been more than a week since the Presidential run-off election in Ecuador. Fundamentally not much has really changed. Ecuador is still living in the crisis of violence with the region’s fourth-highest homicide rate (https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/ecuador-crime-lasso-corruption-politics-protests-violence/) and is also in a precarious economic situation (https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/05/24/the-ecuador-of-guillermo-lasso/ ). Meanwhile Ecuador is also going through a migrant …

Thanks

Dearest friends and family I recently traveled back to the coast to visit church leaders and start sharing and discernment about a church planting course that we are working to launch. While I was there I visited with pastors Marina and Byron who work in the rural region where Edy is from. I shared a …

Prayer request

Dearest friends and family, We continue our travels through coastal Ecuador. We have been able to visit many different communities, congregations and projects. We have spent time with families who have decided to listen to the call of the great commission of Matthew 28 and form disciples close to their homes and communities that are …

Coast

In February during the Andean Gathering we were warmly invited by pastors and leaders from the Iglesia Evangelica Menonita de Ecuador (IEME) conference to come visit there congregations, and especially focus on their church plants. We have been in Manta and surrounding areas since Thursday, and the girls have been trying to get used to …

Prayer request

Dearest friends and family, We continue our travels through coastal Ecuador. We have been able to visit many different communities, congregations and projects. We have spent time with families who have decided to listen to the call of the great commission of Matthew 28 and form disciples close to their homes and communities that are …

Prayers

Yesterday Ecuador experienced another earthquake that was pretty large, several people from the IEME (Iglesia Evangelica Menonita de Ecuador) coastal churches shared with us that it was a large shock and reminded people of the very large and dangerous earthquake that the coast experienced 7 years ago. We have been spending the weekend in Riobamba …

Christmas note

Dearest friends and family, Every year we are reminded the weeks leading up to Christmas to be patient, the Advent season is about waiting for the coming of the world’s Savior. In our family here in Quito we recently had the wonderful blessing after waiting for many months to spend Christmas and New Years with …