Blogs from Cuenca, South, Ecuador, South America - page 9

Several of the ladies that attend the Women's Bible Study on Tuesdays do not even go to Calvary Chapel Cuenca. But evidently there are not a lot of bible studies going on in town, so they come to ours. Back in February, one of the ladies heard about the Balloon Ministry and asked us to help her increase the population of their church (International Christian Church) by providing balloons to draw the children, which draws the parents. The day after we helped her they had eight new children in the church, along with their other family members. Well, they moved the location of their church and again asked us to help out. So on Saturday morning we showed up, balloons and pumps in hand. There was Braulio, Chanel and Mandy, Kathy, Nancy and Mike, Mark and ... read more

After we left the farm, we drove over to the Tarqui Zoo. It was rather small, the walk around the various cages was a little difficult, but everything was very clean and they had a lot of animals. We had lunch here and then drove back to Cuenca.... read more

Today was a really busy day. It will take more than one entry to show you everything we did.... read more

Last month we were blessed to meet Katy and Gary Rovetto from Payson, Arizona. Katy has a wonderful ministry of making balloons for kids and telling them about Christ. Today a group of us went to Parque Calderon, in El Centro, to hand out balloons. We were joined by Eric and Mary Stock from Oklahoma, Evelyn Benson from California, Kathy Dodd from Canada, and Susan from Arizona. What a joy this was. We were crowded by not only children, but teens, young adults and old. The balloons were made into hats, flowers, puppies, lions, frogs and swords. Attached to the balloons was a small card that we made up with the following: "El nombre de Dios es Jesús, y Él te ama" (The name of God is Jesus, and He loves you.)... read more

Monday 31st March (Odyssey Day 143) We had time for bacon and eggs for breakfast, and still managed to depart at 0830 this morning. We were heading for the city of Cuenca, our last stop in Ecuador. We had lunch in a little town, the name of which I never did discover. Though a few of us spent the lunch hour trying to find a working ATM so we could get out some more US$ before crossing the border. The town of Cuenca seemed to be quite nice on first view, though it took us a while to get the truck within walking distance of the hotel. When we finally managed to find somewhere to park temporarily, we walked a few blocks to the hotel and after such a very long day of driving, we were ... read more