Thank you Northwest Covenant Church!

Our Construction Project for 2017: Expanding our Medical Clinic. We had the pleasure of hosting Northwest Covenant Church from Mt. Prospect, IL (our Home church!) and they are helping us with our clinic expansion.

The Clinic Expansion Project is our construction project for this year and it has the goal of completing an expansion to our clinic in order that we can offer Physical and Occupational Therapy in 2018.  The expansion of the clinic is significant and it is with the idea that there will be additional space for when the clinic grows in the future as well.  We have a goal to be a clinic that offers specialties, whether it be in Therapy, Women’s Health, Children’s Medicine, Traumatology, etc.  The Clinic Expansion Project will provide for the immediate need of space for Therapy but then there will be additional office space to grow in the future as well.  We had begun the expansion previously in what we built earlier this year with the adding of the space for the bathrooms, office and expanded waiting here.  With what we have left to build for this expansion, we will need approximately another $25,000 in funding to complete the project.  What Northwest Covenant Church did during their time here will help a great deal but we will need more help.  If you could like to contribute to this construction project, please click below and type “Clinic Construction” in the place for a “Personal Message”: https://www.santiagopartnership.org/give/

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Minga in OUR House

A few weeks ago, we had a bunch of friends over for a Minga in OUR house.  Just as a reminder, “Minga” is a Kichwa word that means coming together to do something together for the greater good… similar to that of an Amish “Barn Raising.”  We are used to holding Minga’s on the building of the Home for At Risk Children as well as the construction on the Medical Clinic.  This was the first time that we ever did something like this that is “ours.”  We were just so touched by the outpouring of love and support.  There were about 20 people there in total with about 8 children additionally.  It was a lot of fun and a lot of hard work.  See the pictures below.

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Before pictures of our house

We are finally getting caught up on some posts that we have been overdue on.  Here are the “Before” pictures of our house of what it looked like when we bought it.  We wanted to share these because we will be doing a lot of updates to the house and so it will eventually look a lot different.

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We bought a house!

If  you have been following Kim and I here in Ecuador for very long, you know that you have been praying for us as we have tried to purchase a house.  Well, those long-time prayers have finally be answered!  Here are the pictures from the signing this past Thursday.  We´ll be showing pictures of the house very soon as it will take a lot of work to fix it up so we will be showing you the before and after pictures soon.  However, in the meantime, you can rejoice with us and see the pictures from the signing day.  Praise Jesus!

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Meghan Rocks!

We have been blessed by having the best volunteer by the name of Meghan Lóser for the Santiago Partnership project in Cayambe who came to us through the Covenant.  Meghan comes to us from Saranac Community Church in Saranac, MI and has been with us since the beginning of March and we will be, unfortunately, leaving us in the beginning of July.  She recently graduated from the University of Michigan and is in her gap year before she starts Medical School in August.  The time that we have had her with us has been a true blessing as she has such a servant heart and has always been so ready to serve in any capacity that she is asked.  She has worked with us in all of our Medical Caravans mainly serving as a translator as she is fluent in Spanish.  Additionally, she has taken on the large task of assisting us with the inventory of all of our supplies for the Home for At Risk Children as well as the entire stock of Medical supplies that we have in our storage room of the Medical Clinic.  There are before and after pictures below of Medical storage area.  That alone has been a lot of work but all the while she still found time to teach English classes and help the Delps when they needed an extra hand with the kids.  Meghan will be sorely missed but we know she will be successful in her Medical career. Hopefully, we will see her again in the future here in Ecuador!   You can read her blog of her time in Ecuador thus far here: https://megsmissionmoments.wordpress.com/2017/05/23/here-and-now/  As a part of her time here, we were happy to welcome Mark Seversen and Praj David from the Covenant Offices in Chicago this past weekend as they wanted to see where Meghan has been serving as a volunteer as well as talk with us about future Covenant interns.

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Esther turns 3!!

Happy Birthday to our precious Esther Ashby Delp and her third birthday today!!!  Here are the pictures from her party yesterday.

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We are open!!!

We are open!!!! Today, is our first day of being officially open with our Home for At Risk Children where we are awaiting children with open arms. In reality, we wish the services of the Home weren’t necessary but alas the needs for its services in the area of Cayambe are greatly undeserved. We will soon be receiving children coming from situations of neglect, abandonment, abuse and other unimaginable situations. Please pray for our friends pictured here as they will be on the front lines working with these children and their families day and day out.

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Opening the Home for At Risk Children

These are exciting days for the Santiago Partnership. This past Wednesday was the first day of work for the employees of the Home. It included a lot of introductions, explanations about our organizations, systems and structures and a tour of the Home. The rest of the week included team building and planning activities. We plan to open the Home on June 1st.

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Moving toward self-sustainability

We have been on a three step process with our project in Cayambe, Ecuador.  Step 1: Open the Medical Clinic.  Step 2: Open the Home for At Risk Children.  Step 3: Become self-sustainable.  As you know, the clinic is open and serving the community and we are in process of opening the home right now, so onto step 3.  Recently, we had a visit from two of our Board Members, Tim Eberhard and Zach Stevens, as well as the pastor of the Coshocton Christian Tabernacle, Mike Jansen.  The purpose of their trip was to bring down and setup a CNC Router that will be used to make wood frames that can be sold in artisan markets which then will produce income for the home.  Please pray for this endeavor and its success!

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Serving Iglesia Nazareno

After our big day of celebration a week ago with the Inauguration of the Home for At Risk Children, we went right back to work again on Monday with another Medical Caravan.  This week we partnered with a group of doctors from Chicagoland, headed up by the Santiago Partnership’s very own Kristi Lundblad.  We served the Compassion children of our sister church, Iglesia Nazareno, and its two satellite locations in Cangahau and Oyacachi in providing the children’s annual medical check up. In addition to the check ups, all the of children received a hearing test as two of the doctors who came down were Audiologists.  It was a wonderful week of serving together!

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