Making our way from our home in Puyo to our church in Puyupungo. It’s an hour drive with most of the road being gravel and mud. And did I mention very bumpy?

Once every few months, we have to make a road trip 3 hours away to Ambato to have our oil changed in our truck at the dealership there. Lately, however, the rains have been so hard and for so many days that it has caused many mudslides, with the mud piling into the road and

 “Never pity missionaries; envy them. For they are where the real action is — where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge.” In my lifetime, I have heard numerous stories of missionaries who travel to foreign lands, build churches and the natives ‘flock’ to the services; packed out crowds come to hear