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Ministry Update

Here is a recent newsletter update that we sent out to Northwest Covenant Church in Mt. Prospect, IL and just thought everyone might be interested in reading:

“Our first month being back home in Ecuador has been an eventful one.  …

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Christmas Newsletter Available for Download

 Christmas Newsletter

Our Christmas newsletter is available for download (Just click the link above!).  You can see what has been happening with us in our first six months in Ecuador.   Also, please note the address for Covenant World …

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Trip to the COAST!

We had a great time on our recent trip to the Coast of Ecuador.  We started out going to Santo Domingo-about a 3 hour trip from Quito, to the National Pastor’s Retreat for the Covenant.  We stayed at the Covenant …

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A traveling we will go…

Simeon’s looking at the stylist cutting his hair-not quite sure what to think

Tomorrow (Saturday morning) early, about 7AM, we will be traveling to Santa Domingo for the annual pastor’s retreat in Ecuador at the Covenant Camp.  We will be …

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1 Trip Down, 1 To Go

We got back early Sunday evening from our first trip to Cuenca.  We had headed down to the southern city of Cuenca for a couple of reasons.  First of all, our Spanish school here in Quito has a branch in …

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Upcoming Travels

You can follow us on this map

We are planning to take a couple of trips around Ecuador over the next 3 weeks.  We leave on Saturday for CUENCA.  We will be dividing the trip up so we don’t have

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Trip to the Basilica

We were able to weave some of the culture of Quito into our Spanish lessons today. We first went to a museum and learned and saw a lot of history from Ecuador dating back to ‘before Christ”. Unfortunately we couldn’t …

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Spanish Cooking Lessons: Making Empanadas!

Joel rolling out the dough

 

Pressing out the dough

 

Frying them up!

The finished product 
The finished product

For one of our Spanish lessons this week, Olgita and Ricardo taught us how to make homemade empanadas from scratch!  It was a great time

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