February 2026

News:

• Norwegians: Andrés has contacts with an organization in Norway and we have a group of young people from Norway helping out with Pate Ministries through our leader Andrés. They are a huge help and it is wonderful to see hardworking Norwegian young people working for the Lord.
• Bible Clubs:
• Coastal Bible Clubs: We have started a new series for the whole year: Live like Jesus - Jesus Moral & Character Values. We will take the children through the Bible on how to live like Jesus.
• Youth Bible Club: We will have a lot of plans for the new year for the youth.
• Mountain Bible Clubs: The mountain Bible clubs continue to grow strong with our volunteer leadership from the mountain churches.
• Tuesday Community Evangelistic Outreach: Attendance is down as expected due to Carnival celebrations.
• Sunday Bible Study/Worship Service: We are having about 35-50 people attend the services each week, not including the visiting teams. We are currently studying 1 Corinthians.

Big News:

• New Ministry Center Property: The steel for the amphitheater (main ministry center) is going up the 2nd week of the month. We are so excited about the new facility.

Bigger News:

• Spiritual Emphasis Retreat: February 23rd begins our Spiritual Emphasis Retreat. We have pastor John Jenkins from Northport Baptist Church, Northport. Alabama coming to lead us together in studying God's word together and Rebecca Carrion from Fountain Inn, South Carolina is coming to help us be better prepared to teach the Gospel in our children and youth Bible clubs. We are brining all of the volunteers from the mountains and all of our Coastal E-team and their families together in Manglaralto to share in the great week of spiritual empowerment.
• Projects for 2026
• Begin the construction of the new ministry center!
• Start small group and one-one discipleship classes.
• Welcome new missionary, Rebecca Carrion for two-year commitment, hopefully beginning in June.
• End of Year Report: If you did not receive our end of the year update, you missed some amazing stats. I am always amazed on the final numbers from the year. If we were not required to keep track of how many people are served by the ministry for our Non-Profit status, we would not record the numbers. God be glorified in all He has done in 2025 through Pate Ministries and our partners! He is a recap of the stats.
• 27,403 kids (2,284 kids per month) in attendance in19 Kid’s Bible Clubs. (Coast/Mountains).
• 15,024 children (54.8%) memorized weekly Bible verses.
• 36 youth (average) in a bi-weekly youth Bible Club. 
• 8 ladies (average) in a weekly Cuenca ladies Bible Club.
• 387 ladies were in attendance in the 7 Special Coastal ladies Bible Clubs.
• 2,868 adults were in attendance in the Kid’s Bible Clubs.
• 45 people (average) attend the weekly Sunday Night Bible Study. 
• 90 young mothers (average) attended the monthly young mother’s program.
• 11,585 people were in attendance in the Tuesday Night Community Evangelical Outreaches.
• 52 families, in 5 communities participated in the Agricultural and Chick Projects.
• 1,670 people were seen in the weekly clinic.
• 1,197 people were served in other projects and outreaches.
• 37 short term mission teams, with 520 team members, and 4 interns were hosted.
• Gave out hundreds of Bibles.
• Helped many families and individuals in need.
• Acquired land to build a new ministry center.
• Served more than 300 people in a dental/medical clinic.
• Held adult and children’s English as a foreign language classes.
• Welcomed two new missionaries, Mike and Jeannie McGilliard to Pate Ministries.

Special Prayer Request:

• Pray for our speakers to hear from God on what to share with us at our retreat and for all of us to receive fully of His word.
• Pray for the construction of our building.
• Pray that God will send us additional national E-team members.
• 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 mountain Bible clubs.
• Pray for Rebecca Carrion as she raises funds to come to Ecuador to serve full time for two years.
• 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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