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LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD

Posted on August 26, 2017 by Joel & Kim

I (Kim) am keenly reminded quite often how our pasts can come back around. That is definitely a loaded comment. Of course, the negative parts of our pasts can. We can think of them and be angry or upset or be controlled by them. Regardless our pasts shape us for better or worse. People also shape us and our paths cross with many people along the way. I have been aware of that this month as we have had visitors from our past. We haven’t seen them since our time at North Park University, almost 13 years ago. We went to nursing school together. They have been supporters and encouragers for quite some time.

We have seen a lot of people from our past who have supported and encouraged us from the beginning when our ideas of a clinic and home were just that, ideas, dreams, what we would say “a calling”. Support and encouragement may seem like simple words. We use them a lot. But we don’t take them for granted or use them lightly. When we first started talking about this ‘call’ or dream that we felt we were supposed to do with our lives, some people came out of the wood work to support us. Some, l’m sure thought we were crazy, which is understandable. Some days WE think we are crazy! But whether from our past or people we don’t even know yet, the encouragement that we receive and the support given some days is overwhelming. We are shown so often through this encouragement that we are where we are supposed to be. Although days are hard and yes sometimes we think we are crazy, that encouragement we receive gets us through. The support we receive keeps us and the Santiago Partnership going. This is the time for new beginnings with the Santiago Partnership. The clinic is open for over a year and the home for at-risk children for 2 months. We have many friends who are part of these new endeavors. At the same time, as we receive visits from our previous connections (Indiana Wesleyan University, North Park University, Northwest Covenant Church, etc..), we are reminded of all our friends from the past who help make this project possible.

We are thankful for our past and we look forward to our future and the future of the project and the Santiago Partnership.

Categories: 501c3, IWU, Ministry, Reflections | Tags: 501c3, Ministry, Reflections, The Santiago Partnership, Updates | Leave a comment

Thank you Northwest Covenant Church!

Posted on August 2, 2017 by Joel & Kim

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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Categories: 501c3, Cayambe, Clinic, Construction, Ministry, Prayer, Travel, Updates | Tags: 501c3, Cayambe, Clinic, Ecuador, Evangelical Covenant Church, Friends, Ministry, Northwest Covenant Church, Partnerships, Prayer Requests, The Santiago Partnership, Travel, Trips, Updates | Leave a comment

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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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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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!