I spent 2 weeks in Guayaquil, Ecuador with a team from Queen´s Park Baptist Church. We lived and worked with a missionary couple, Peter and Vicki Butchers, and their family. There are many new, small churches in the slum areas of the city like Los Vergeles, San Francisco, El Recreo and Valle de la Flor. We worked in all these areas doing a variety of jobs including painting, clearing land and helping with the pre-school education programme that is run from 2 of these churches. It was amazing to see how happy and thankful the people were and to see how God is working in their lives. As well as these practical activities we went to 5 or 6 church meetings where we were very warmly welcomed and invited to lead the meetings which was a
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