On Sunday we held a combined Spanish and English Service and invited the congregations from Calvary Chapel Gualaceo and Calvary Chapel Troncal. After the service there was a large free luncheon for everyone. Then on Monday night, Debi and I and two other Gringos were invited to dine with all of the elders and their families. Quite an honor.... read more

What a great time we had at our Calvary Chapel Cuenca Christmas Pot Luck. We had over forty people come with food and presents for a White Elephant (Dirty Santa) gift exchange. There was food galore - turkey with all the trimmings, salads, desserts and of course the most important - fellowship. We even had a number of non-English speaking Ecuadorians come who participated in the gift exchange (and I don't think they really understood the idea until after a few steals, but then they got into it).... read more

I’m sorry that I haven’t posted anything for a while. Since we rented a new, larger home in July and had to clean and paint the entire interior we were quite busy for a while. Even after we moved in, the were a lot of items to be hung.(Pictures in the next post) Believe me, hanging a picture here is a lot different than in the States. There is no drywall here. All the walls are concrete over brick or block. So you don’t just bang a nail in the wall and hang the picture. It’s drill a hole, put in a plastic insert for a screw or a few toothpicks (awesome way to just put a nail in a hole and have it hold). So here are the pictures of the street art that I ... read more

Here are the street art pictures we have taken in the month of June.... read more

Since we have been here we have been trying to get a foot in the door at the SOLCA Cancer Hospital, Children's Ward. It has been a long haul. We (our group of volunteers from Calvary Chapel Cuenca and some others who attend other churches, but do outreach with us) have been able to attend a couple of birthday parties for the kids and make balloon animals, face paint, etc. We have also been able to go to the hospital and take prayer blankets (provided by Lights Chapel Baptist Church, Greenbrier, TN) to the kids and pray with them, but not take pictures. At our last birthday party three couples were asked if they would like to become god parents for some of the children as they received their sacraments. Yesterday we were able to meet ... read more