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At the end of September, I was able to participate in another women’s holistic health caravan alongside some of my other Serve Globally colleagues. It was another great week of being able to engage in ministry together …
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The scars on the asphalt can still be seen through intersections and along highways. The pockmarked and cracking streets—where burning tree trunks, tires, and razor-wire had blocked off neighborhoods and major roadways during the eleven days of …
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Beginning on October 3, Ecuador entered into a national strike and protest against the elimination of the diesel and gasoline subsidy. The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) has confronted the government and the International Monetary …
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The rains have returned to the sierra of Ecuador.
While we enjoy life in the “eternal spring” and the same amount of daylight year-round in this land we call home, the dry and the rainy times of …
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In the time that we spent preparing to move to Ecuador, I was amazed at the number of times that (white) people asked us about the safety of our children in the process. One woman even went …
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Several weekends ago we spent a few days in Santo Domingo, in the tropical coastal highlands, at the IPEE camp to join in the National Assembly of the Ecuadorian Covenant Church. We had a great time and …
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We are back to our regularly scheduled programing after a week of vacation from school for the kids and the country celebrating carnival. Carnival is widely celebrated throughout Latin America in the days leading up to Ash …
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It has been one year and three months since I was asked to serve as the Interim Rector of the Seminary here in Ecuador. While this has been a long interim period, I have seen so much …
We are settling back into “real life” after the rush of the holidays and the best Christmas surprise EVER!
This past fall, I got a crazy message from my mom saying that our family wanted to bring us home for …
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Crates and crates and crates of them. Roadside stands spring up in early December along all of our regular routes selling mangos which are now in season. Just $5 will have you driving away with a bag …
STORIES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF FAITH, THE EVERYDAY AND LIFE OVERSEAS.
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