November 2024

Urgent Prayer Request: Please pray that God will send Ecuador rain as the water table is extremely low and the government is going to mandate water rationing and more electric black-outs. Also the Gos will send us full-time or longer short-term missionary help too.

News:

• Year End Update and Christmas Card: We are getting ready to send out our year end overview and Christmas card, if you do not currently get our quarterly newsletter, please message us thought the "contact us" tab or email us at pateministries@gamil.com to get on our mailing list. You do not want to miss the upcoming end of the year updates.
• Bible Clubs:
• Coastal Bible Clubs: The kid's Bible clubs are still growing with over 60% memorizing a weekly Bible verse.
• Mountain Bible Clubs: The E-team visited the mountains in August. The kid's were so happy to see them.
• Tuesday Community Evangelistic Outreach: We finished the Chosen, season 4 last month. Even though we had to start the movies late due to the blackouts, we still had between 150 and 200 in attendance week.
• Land: We are planing a series of meetings with the community in December to pave the way for our community meetings to ask for land. Please be in prayer for these meetings. It is all in God's perfect timing.
• Missionary Intern Trent: We said good-bye to our amazing missionary intern Trenton Atwood. He spend 11 weeks here with us. He worked diligently our E-team in the work of the ministry, taught the youth and a couple of Bible clubs, and make many personal connections with the youth. He and Andrés also started a weekly pick-up basketball game with some of the youth. Lastly and most importantly, he was an excellent example of a godly young man to all. May God blessed him abundantly for his service to the Ecuadorians, E-team and the ministry.

Big News:

• Missionary Interns Return: Praise the Lord for answered prayer! Jeannie and Mike McGalliard were able to get Mike's birth certificate corrected and they will be coming back for 4-6 months starting the middle of December.
• Chicken Project: The project is going well and we have new families to add to the project. We also gave out 16 water filtration kits to the most remote location. These people do not have running water or a river nearby, they dig holes looking for water. What an amazing tangible way to show the love of Christ while meeting a need.
• Medical Supplies: A testimony to God's miraculous provision. Twice in October, and many times previously, I have had a patient come into the medical clinic that required something very special. I knew that I did not have what I needed to help them, but nevertheless, I go to the medical cabinets looking for something to help and I find just what I needed. Granted these items are always out of the ordinary items and I am sure they were not there before, but yet God puts them in those cabinets. Seriously, they were not there before. I should never be surprised, but I always am - my God is a great and generous God.

Bigger News:

• New Believers: We had 10 youth pray to receive Christ in our youth Bible club and two in our medical clinic. We will be speaking in depth with those who accepted Christ and hopefully they will follow with water baptism.
• Special Project: Look for details of a special project we have coming over the next month or so, most of the teams have seen it, but we are not ready to announce it publicly just yet. It is so exciting - no, it's not land for a new building yet.

Special Prayer Request:

• Pray for us to find private property to purchase and build a building larger than our leased building - God is in control.
• 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 mountain 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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