1. It's been a few weeks now since the VBS I spoke of in my last update. Thank you so much for the prayers as it went very well. We started the first day with about 60 kids but had around 100 every day after that. The kids come mainly for a 4 block radius around the church and look forward to this every year. Some of them have been coming for 2 or 3 years now. Thanks again for the prayers as I know this week meant so much to these kids.
2. Next week I will be taking a few days for a trip down to the jungle. There is a missionary couple and a journeyman that I'm good friends with who work with the Shuar people that live in this area. The Shuar, like the Quichua that I work with, are an indigenous group. However, unlike the Quichua, the Shuar are not nearly as integrated into mainstream society and are still very cold and closed towards strangers. There are no more than 15-20 believers in this area and no churches. I am bringing down 3 Ecuadorians (2 of which are Quichua) for this trip. Two are pastors/missionaries that will share testimony and hopefully open doors to the Shuar. The other is a young man who is an architect and is going to design a bridge for the Shuar in an area that needs it badly. Our goal in bringing Quichua with us on this trip is that the Shuar might see that the message the white people are preaching comes not just from foreigners but from their own people. We hope this effort, along with the goodwill of designing the bridge, will open doors for future ministry. Please remember us in prayer starting Sunday the 15th and the the next several days. Also pray for good weather as rain is very frequent in the jungle and the roads are quite bad.
Thanks everyone for the prayers!
