July 2024

Urgent Prayer Request: Please pray that God will send us ministry minded people that are bilingual, and that can drive, to work with us. We are growing and need help. We are also looking for longer team missionary help too.

News:

• Winter: It is winter here in Ecuador with cooler (chilly), overcast and rainy (muddy) days, but the humpback whales have made their migration to the coast to give birth and mate again. The whales will be here through mid October.
• Bible Clubs:
• Coastal Youth Bible Club: We held a beach bonfire gathering for our youth and the youth of Cornerstone church in Bluffton, SC, the 3rd week of July. We had over 80 total. It was a lot of fun games and teaching the Ecuadorians how to roast marshmallows for s'amores. We finished with a Bible story and hot dogs.
• Mountain Bible Clubs: The E-team will visit the mountains the 1st week of August. They will re-supply the leaders and encourage them. They will also be giving out the school backpacks in the mountain Bible clubs.
• Tuesday Community Evangelistic Outreach: We are still averaging almost 300 people each week. We hope to start showing the Chosen, Season 4 soon.

Big News:

• Young Mother's Project: We had two special guests share on establishing healthy routines and many had questions for the Nurse Midwife too. These young mother's are really engaging in this program.
• Health Clinic: The 2nd week of July, we attended 24 patients and sent 10 of them to the hospital with critical blood pressure or blood glucose. We are serving the community in a vita way. All receive a Gospel Tract and prayer.
• Chicken Project: We have had a lot of response to the chicken project, but there is still time to get involved. Polivio, Andrés, dad, is starting a sustainable chicken project in a village that is very remote and super-poor. For $50, you can provide a family with baby chicks. These chicks will lay eggs that will provide a protein food source that will meet a physical need for these families. Polivo will monitor their progress and share a monthly Bible study with them to meet their Spiritual needs. What an amazing way to show the love of Christ in a tangible way.

Bigger News:

• E-Team Member: We said good-bye to Samy, one of our E-team member who came from Cuenca to the coast with us. She only committed for one year of service, but has stayed with us for almost three years. Samy has blessed this ministry with her talents, time, friendship, service, and leadership, and her sweet contaigious smile. She will be missed, but we are excited for her new opportunity to share the Gospel and show the love of Christ as the liaison for a foundation (non-christian) based out of her home-town of Cuenca, called, Helping Kids in Ecuador. She has been home-sick for a very long time, and this will allow her to reconnect with her family and friends.
• Meeting with the Montañita Community about Land: The July meeting was postponed to an unknown date for the next meeting due to the Ecuador vs Argentina (Ecuador lost). We are still waiting for the dates.
• 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, we are hearing rumors that the land we were looking at may be used in total by an new school construction - 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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