June 2026

News:

• La Niña or El Niño: Winter season is here, but the La Niña and upcoming El Niño weather events are keeping us is a slight drought and hot days. Normally, we can have days of 68 degrees, but overcast and misting rain with high humidity. We are hearing that by next month the El Niño will bring in super rains and flooding. I wish someone would get these weather kids under control ....lol. I (Dena) like the warmer weather, but if the water stays warmer, it will difficult for the whale tourism as they humpback whales will go to cooler waters to have their babies and many of our communities depend on the tourism.
• Spring Itineration: Gary and I had a great time on itineration and visiting some of our supporting churches and meeting potential new supporting churches. God is so faithful to help us when we are in the States. We shared in Georgia, Florida, and North and South Carolina. We would rather stay in Ecuador, but as independent missionaries have to raise the funds for the whole entire work that goes on in Ecuador.

• Bible Clubs:
• Kid's Day: We will be celebrating kid's day in all of our Bible clubs on the coast and in the sierras. Each child will receive a cute, smiley face baseball cap.
• Coastal Bible Clubs: The children are back in school and we hope to see how the numbers of attendees hold up since we lost so many of the older children graduating to middle/high school this year. Also, sadly, in two of our communities, we are told that the leader of a certain religion told the children not to attend our Bible clubs, so we will see how that pans out. Please pray that they will keep coming.
• Youth Bible Club: The youth are studying the books of the Bible in depth over this next year. They want to learn about the Bible and what it says.
• Sierra Bible Clubs: They are going strong and the children are being discipled in the word of God.
• Tuesday Community Evangelistic Outreach: Attendance has picked back up as school has started.
• Sunday Bible Study/Worship Service: We are starting 2 Cornthians. We will now have the services translated by a program that we have began a monthly subscription for when Andrés preaches.

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.
• Jesse & Maggie: We are super excited to have our grandson Jesse and our daughter in law Maggie come to Ecuador the 1st week of June with their church; The Bridge.
• New Bible Study: Gary and Andrés have started a new men's Bible study with local men and our construction team. It is amazing to know these men are opening up the Word of God and studying it together.

Bigger News:

• Anniversary: Gary and I celebrate our 41st wedding anniversary this month!
• VBS: We are so excited for VBS's being held at serval of our supporting churches that have dedicated their offerings to go towards the playground equipment for the new ministry center - Thank you children!

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 terribily 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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