This past week we celebrated the 11th Anniversary of our Headquarters Church in Puyo, Ecuador.
We are not a mega Church that seats thousands, nor do we have thousands of members. However, we have literally had thousands of people come through this Church hearing the Gospel, the majority of them for the very first time.
When I became a Missionary in Ecuador 20 years ago I thought I would only have Churches in the deep jungle region of the Amazon. So when the Lord instructed my brother, Charles and me, to build a Church in the city of Puyo (we had already built 4 jungle Churches at that time) I was both surprised and excited! Now these 11 years later I can only stand in awe of all the Souls that have been touched by the Lord, whose lives have been changed forever, in this Church.
Besides our regular ‘local’ people, we have people who drive for 9 hours, some for 11 hours, others walk 2 days, all of these on a regular basis, numerous times through the years, to arrive at our Church. Not only from all over Ecuador, but from so many countries all over the world including from countless States in America, from Peru, Columbia, Venezuela, Canada and so many others!
They are not coming because of me! I am just an unknown jungle Missionary that serves the Lord each day by serving precious people whose villages you won’t even find on a map. But what I’ve been told over and again is that they are coming because they have heard about the great move of God here, they have seen ‘fire’ coming from the Church building, they have seen angels encamped around about this building. They are coming because they want something real, something different, something they have never experienced before, something they don’t have in their part of the world. THIS is why the Lord instructed us to build a Church in this particular location. Not so anyone would ever know my name, but that so many would come to know HIM in this beautiful Church!
