July 2026

News:

• El Niño: Winter season is here, but the El Niño weather event is keeping us is a slight drought, warm days, and slightly overcast, but not as much as normal. The whales have come to Puerto Lopez really late and very few because of the warm waters.
• Summer Interns: We have already had one intern, Noah Pippin, for 3 weeks and now we have another intern, Corbin Poteet for 4 weeks. These young men gave up their summer to come serve with Pate Ministries. They are both excellent young men of God.

• Bible Clubs:
• Coastal Bible Clubs: Our Bible clubs while reduced in numbers of children, are going strong. There are lots of new little ones attending. Many of the mother's are learning the Bible verses and reciting them for the little ones 4 years and younger.
• Youth Bible Club: The youth are studying the book of John this season.
• Sierra Bible Clubs: They are going strong and the children are being discipled in the word of God.
• Tuesday Community Evangelistic Outreach: We showed the soccer games. The first time, we had 98 people, but the game in which Ecuador lost and was out of the tournament, we have over 350 in attendance.
• Sunday Bible Study/Worship Service: We are still growing in our attendance. We are speaking on Baptist the 1st few weeks of July and will hold a Baptist service the 3rd week of July.
• Young Mother's Project: The mother's were given instruction on budgeting. They were so engaged, but it was eye-opening on how little they survive on and how many people live in the same house. In July, they will be learning about personal security and safety.

Big News:

• New Ministry Center Property: Each week we see new additions to the project. It is slightly a head of schedule, which is super exciting. Many items that we thought to have to come from the States have been sourced within Ecuador. The steel uprights are in the ground for the three story building. The plumbing for the kitchen and bathrooms have been laid out. The gigantic fans have been installed in the amphitheater.
• New Missionary: Our new missionary, Rebecca Carrion arrived and has been settling into her rental housing. She will be working with small group discipleship.

Bigger News:

• Bold New Believer: The wife of the indigenous couple that attends our Worship Service and also has a store in which we take our teams shopping, took a bold step to come to the front of the Sunday night Bible study and gave her heart to Christ, in front of everyone. This was a very bold step for her. We are so excited for her. This is the same couple that felt led to donate 10 bags of conceit to our new building project.

Special Prayer Request:

• Pray for additional missionaries to come and join us in the work. The ministry has grown bigger than what we can do ourselves.
• Pray for the construction of our new ministry building.
• Pray that God will build unity in our E-team.
• Pray that God will send us additional bi-lingual, called, national E-team members, we are terribly understaffed.
• Pray for Andrés and Gary as they work on the property and make huge building decisions.
• Pray for God to soften the hearts of the Montañita people to receive His Gospel.
• Pray for the national house church leaders who continue the Sierra Bible clubs.
• Financial Support: Please pray that Christ will continue to provide for the ministry's financial needs for the mountains and the Coast.

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