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Travel

Medical Caravan Completed

This past week the Santiago Partnership held a Medical Caravan in the Kichwa community of Lote 4 and with our partner church, Iglesia Emanuel, where we saw over 340 little patients as the children of the two Compassion sites were

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IU DENTAL SCHOOL PUT TO WORK

This past week we hosted a dental team made up of dentists and dental students from Indiana University School of Dentistry and we put them to work!  We held a medical and dental caravan in the area surrounding Cayambe visiting

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Thank you Canada!

This past week our partners from Canada and the Evangelical Covenant Church of Canada came down to partner with us in ministry once again. This year’s project is building offices for the project as well as a an apartment for

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A long-awaited Inauguration

Today at our partner church, Iglesia Emanuel, we held our long-awaited Inauguration/Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony for the Medical Clinic.  It was quite the event.  People came from all over to be involved.  Representatives from IPEE’s Administrative Council and Pastoral Council were there

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Asamblea 2016

We recently attended IPEE’s Asamblea 2016.  The Asamblea is IPEE’s Annual Meeting which is held every year in January at the church’s campgrounds in Santo Domingo.  Joel was there representing FACE with his position on the Board of Directors.  Kim

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A Visit from Times Past

We had the unique and wonderful opportunity to meet and host former Covenant Missionary Marlan Enns.  Marlan is 94 and was one of the original Covenant missionaries to open the Ecuadorian field.  He planted the Covenant’s first church, Iglesia Betel

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See the new kitchen!

Thanks to the team from Northwest Covenant Church and our Ecuadorian partners, we made incredible progress on the home for at-risk kids this week – tiling, skim coating, sanding, painting, digging, hauling, installing cabinets and appliances, and more – and

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South American Missionary Retreat

This past week we had the pleasure of hosting all of the missionaries from South America (Colombia and Ecuador) as well as many folks from Chicago for a Missionary Retreat.  It was a wonderful time of connecting, sharing, praying, and

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Sabbath Retreat

Sabbath_RetreatHere is the group photo of the group that I was a part of for my recent Sabbath Retreat.  I have to say that I have been so extremely blessed to be a part of such a wonderful experience and

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Sabbath Retreat

sab-rst  On Friday Joel will be leaving for a Sabbath Retreat so he can continue on his goal to reduce the stress and overall workload in his life.  You can read about when he last talked about this and his beard

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