Maritza is 15 years old. She lives in the jungle community of Jatari, which is right next to our Puyupungo church. Maritza started coming to our church about a year and a half ago. And she fell in love with the message of God, one she had never heard before. She never missed a service

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

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

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