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Pastor’s Retreat

This past week Joel and Simeon went to the bi-annual Covenant Pastor’s Retreat on the coastal city of Crucita.  Kim and the other kiddos didn’t go because we had a ministry event in Cayambe on the Sunday of the weekend.  

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Serving Rumipamba

This past week we partnered with the Evangelical Covenant Church of Dassel, MN as well as the Covenant Church of Rumipamba, Ecuador to hold a free Medical Caravan for the community of Rumipamba.  Over 120 patients received a free medical

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A Visit from Covenant World Relief

This past week we had a visit from Covenant World Relief, the Relief and Development branch of the Evangelical Covenant Church.  CWR supports a FACE dairy project that is nearby our project in Cayambe, in the Covenant Kichwa communities of

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Goodbye Ceresco Covenant!

This past week Kim and Joel hosted a Vision Team from one of our supporting churches, Ceresco Covenant Church of Ceresco, NE.  Ceresco Cov has been one of our supporting churches since the beginning of our first term as missionaries

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Goodbye Jonathan!

We want to celebrate the life of our friend Jonathan Swanson of Duluth, MN who recently passed away and whose memorial contributions have been donated to the Santiago Partnership.  Joel was able to attend Jonathan’s funeral in Duluth while we

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Gracias Rolando!

Yesterday, the Board of FACE (the Development arm of the Evangelical Covenant Church of Ecuador) got together for a day of fellowship and an opportunity to say “GRACIAS!” to our Project Coordinator Rolando Escola.  We were thanking him for his

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Thank you Pleasant Community!!!

This past week we had the pleasure of having a team back from Pleasant Community Church of Warren, PA. They helped this week on construction working on the offices for the project as well as helping our partner church, Iglesia

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The Truth Hurts

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For the past few weeks as I have watched news, read Facebook posts, read articles, my heart just hurts.  I haven’t purposefully been silent on these issues of race and my response to it, I just had so many thoughts …

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Trip to the Beach

We will be heading to the States on August 7th for about 3 weeks to spend some time there since we will not be able to travel over the holidays this year.  We hope to be able to see many

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Thank you Church of the Good Shepherd!

This past week we partnered with Church of the Good Shepherd of Joliet, IL in working on this year’s construction project of building offices as well as helping them minister to the Covenant Churches of Cayambe and Oyacachi. It was

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