September 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:

• Winter: It is winter here in Ecuador with cooler (chilly), overcast 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 Bible Clubs: The kid's Bible clubs are still growing with over 50% 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 are showing the Chosen, Season 4 and the past month, we have had over 300 in attendance.
• Land: We have not been able to speak in the communities meetings to ask for land as the meeting dates have been set just days prior to when we have been in the States or in the mountains, no coincidence. However, it is in the Lord's plan as we are in another project at this time. Hopefully, at the beginning of the new year, we will re-start our push for a meeting to obtain land to build a bigger facility. It is all in God's perfect timing.
• Interns: Our amazing adult interns, Kevin and Karen Walker have gone back to Alabama, but they were instrumental in filling areas of service with teaching a session of the youth mother's class, the Kid's Bible clubs one week, teaching a youth Bible club, helping in the agriculture/chicken project, and so much more. May God blessed them abundantly for their service to the Ecuadorians, E-team and the ministry.
• Mission Conventions: We are going to the States for a few weeks this month to share in several church mission conferences. We are always super excited to share what God is doing with Pate Ministries with our supporting churches and potential supporting churches. Our E-team runs everything magnificently while we are gone.

Big News:

• Young Mother's Project: We had two young ladies come from Cuenca to teach nutrition. The ladies did an amazing job and the mother's had lot's of questions. The mother's are now getting to spend their tickets that they earn for arriving early, learning their memory verse, participation, and answering questions at the end of each lesson for baby or children's items. They are so happy. Thank you for filling our Amazon wish list.
• 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: Praise the Lord, the project is fully funded for the whole village, but if you still want to give, we have additional people we want to add.

Bigger News:

• AED and CPR Mannequins: A church from Jacksonville provided us with an AED (Automated Electronic Defibrillator) and 4 adult and 4 infant CPR mannequins to train our E-team and our communities on CPR. Gary and Andrés witnessed a man drop dead at the location where we eat lunch everyday with our teams. No one knew how to help him and he died. CPR was not something we thought to train our people. Now, we have the tools to bring a life saving program to our communities, while sharing the life-saving Gospel message of Jesus Christ.
• 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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