Yantana Church Finally Finished!
After working hard for several months now, building doors, windows, steps, benches, altar, podium, a beautiful rock walkway, our Yantana church is finally finished!! We have laboured many hours, sweated many days, to finish this church.Our work there started a year ago in a Shuar Indian family’s home. They welcomed us to teach the Word of God, and they received …
Puyupungo Work-If you build it, they will come!
Our Puyupungo Kichwa Indian church is just exploding!!! We built our first one, small and made of bamboo and palmetto leaves in 2008, designed to seat 40. When God started sending folks, we numbered 65 in it. We outgrew it. So we built another one, bigger to seat more people, in Sept 2009. And God has sent more people. We …
No Sacrifices
The missionary makes no sacrifices. What we do, we do because of an overwhelming love in our hearts for a people only God could have called us to. And everything about our life doesn’t really seem relevant anymore, because from the moment we step on foreign soil, it’s no longer about US, it all becomes about THEM!!!!
Pati
In the Puyupungo Dedication service last week, Patricia, whom I affectionately call “Pati”, came to the altar to pray at invitation. She’s 14 years old, and loves helping out at the church, whatever she can do. But when I began to pray with her, God put on my heart how things looked to her. And I began to say, “God, …
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