http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Team-Ecuador-2009/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Team Ecuador 2009 en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:15:32 +0000 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:15:32 +0000 After a busy fortnight most of the team have returned home Wendy Lorna and Oli to Scotland Lidia to Spain and Miguel is still in transit as he has an overnight stay in London before flying back to Glasgow on Monday. Ricardo is staying in Ecuador until Thursday when he will fly to Lima to begin his 4 week medical placement.Its been a great fortnight with so many successes and achievements as w http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-420076.html Hola buenos dias amigos we hope all is well with you all back home and thanks for keeping up with our news by reading the blog. Please continue to pray for us as we commence our final 3 days of the mission.From Monday until Wednesday this week we started and completed a painting project in the church at Los Vergeles. The sanctuary of the church had been painted previously but the church hall http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-419142.html Since yesterday evening Olive hasnt been feeling very well she went to bed early last night and then stayed in bed all day today. Shes still feeling very tired and unwell but were not sure if shes caught something or if shes tired overworked and dehydrated perhaps shes been working very hard for the last 5 days with not much time to rest.Please pray for her pray that shed be refresh http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-418979.html Hola amigos its 6.57am here in Guayaquil so nearly 1pm in Scotland... hope youre all having a good dayI really am sorry for keeping you in the dark for the last few days weve been so busy and its been hard to find the time to update the blog. But heres a quick review of the last 5 crazy days...Friday was our first experience of taking a PEPE class this started at 8am and finished at 11 http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-418846.html Dear friendsIts 23.30hrs in Guayaquil Ecuador which means that weve come to the end of our first week here on mission. Its been very enjoyable and also really tiring but weve achieved a lot and have learned many things as we discussed in our team debriefing session this evening.After clearing the land at Valle de la Flor on Tuesday Wendy Lorna Oli and Lidia have returned on Wednesday aft http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-417317.html Yesterday we had another busy day in Guayaquil...We began the day with a short time of reflection led by Peter Butchers focussing on James 21425 a passage which looks at the importance of faith and deeds. We will begin each day with this reflection time a really helpful way of focussing the group at the start of the day.The rest of the morning was spend in Valle de la Flor a slum area of G http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-416453.html Journies Arrival and Preparation for Action I am pleased to report that we all arrived safely although not quite as planned Richard who was initially meant to arrived on Friday evening was delayed in Miami for 24hours dont feel sorry for him he was put up in the Marriot and went to South Beach twice in the space of 24 hours and so the group was reunited on Saturday night.Wendy Olive Lo http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-416131.html Team Leader Wendy Kerr Assistant Team Leader Lorna Chapman And the rest... Mike Kneafsey Olly Buchannan Lidia Gomez Izquierdo and Richard Workman http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Glasgow/blog-409069.html On Friday evening we travelled to Selly Oak in Birmingham for our team training day which ran from 9am until 4pm on Saturday. Unfortunately Mike was unable to come but the rest of us were there.The programme allowed us to discuss our hopes and fears about the trip find out more about Ecuador and the work we'll be doing there and gave us the chance to continue to grow together as a group. All in a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/West-Midlands/Birmingham/blog-409062.html