{"id":823,"date":"2017-11-22T14:08:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T20:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/?p=823"},"modified":"2017-11-22T14:10:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T20:10:05","slug":"the-story-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/2017\/11\/22\/the-story-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story Continues&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><strong>As you&#8217;ve maybe heard<\/strong>, Richard and I have spent the last three weeks of November teaching, interpreting, supporting, and getting to know the students of Acts 29 in Ecuador.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><strong>It has been a beautiful three weeks of not only getting to know the students<\/strong>, but truly growing with them, learning from each other, and being encouraged by their comments, questions, and by who they are. But before I go any further, it would behoof me to answer the question that is probably in your heard right now, which is, &#8220;what is Acts 29?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em><span style=\"font-size: large\">A brief history*: Acts 29 or Hechos 29, as we call it here Spanish speaking countries, started (here in Ecuador) in 2004. It was born from an idea from Krister Gunnarsson (Swedish Missionary) and was made a reality by Richard (my husband), Peter Hermansson (Swedish Missionary), Marcia Baquero (Acts 29 main leader), and Samuel Gunnarsson (Swedish Missionary). <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">It is a three-month long intensive, international discipleship and leadership school with an orientation towards missions and evangelism. <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">It is based on the truth that God is the same today as he was when the first church was formed. The school gives students the opportunity\u00a0to see that, as they wholeheartedly give God a change to be God and as they live by the principles of the first church and apostles&#8217; teachings. <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">Each school is represented by at least two different cultures with the belief that the gospel is global and can be furthered by multi-cultural relationships and their understanding of the Bible and who Jesus is.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"font-size: large\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em><span style=\"font-size: large\">Through the years, the school has grown and changed, but always with the same original focus of living out the call to be disciples of Christ, globally and in our own homes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em><span style=\"font-size: large\">Now Acts 29 has expanded to many different countries including, Ecuador, Chile, Mexico, Sweden, Finland, Congo Kinshasa, Congo Brazzaville, USA, India, Spain, Russia, and Thailand.\u00a0 Next year will be the first time Acts 29 is held in Nicaragua and Alaska.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em><span style=\"font-size: large\">The director of Acts 29 is Carl-Johan S\u00e4vinger (a very good friend of ours).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em><span style=\"font-size: large\">End of brief history. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em><span style=\"font-size: large\">Footnotes: *according to my husband and the Acts 29 website.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><strong>We originally had planned on just spending one week with Acts<\/strong> as it was our week of teaching. Richard taught on prayer, the Lord&#8217;s prayer, specifically. It was not only fun to see my husband teaching, but to see the devotion he put into his teaching and on a subject that I truly see him living out daily and encouraging me in daily.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23845338_10155733445706287_239062331_n-e1511380231288.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-836 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23845338_10155733445706287_239062331_n-e1511380231288.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23334166_2156836614332993_8514656950676022172_o-1.jpg\">\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23845338_10155733445706287_239062331_n.jpg\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><strong>The last day of teaching we decided to take a break from the normal classroom atmosphere<\/strong> and we headed out to Metropolitano\u00a0Guang\u00fciltagua Park where we hiked to the top of the hill and had our class there, overlooking the valleys and hills. It was absolutely beautiful!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23167549_10209589895532940_1955095926114870814_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-828 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23167549_10209589895532940_1955095926114870814_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23167549_10209589895532940_1955095926114870814_n.jpg 960w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23167549_10209589895532940_1955095926114870814_n-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23167549_10209589895532940_1955095926114870814_n-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><strong>We then, at the end of the class<\/strong>, had a time of collectively praying over each of our countries and cities, it was a powerful, holy moment. It truly was a lovely week together.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23334166_2156836614332993_8514656950676022172_o-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-829 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23334166_2156836614332993_8514656950676022172_o-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23334166_2156836614332993_8514656950676022172_o-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23334166_2156836614332993_8514656950676022172_o-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23334166_2156836614332993_8514656950676022172_o-1-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23334166_2156836614332993_8514656950676022172_o-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><strong>Another aspect of Acts 29 is their practice week.<\/strong> Each month, the school has a &#8220;practice week&#8221; where they split up into groups and spend a week within a different district where they connect and support a local church or ministry. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><strong>As it turned out<\/strong>, the schools last practice week was here in our district, &#8220;Distrito Norte&#8221;. We had the privilege of being invited to support two groups, one here in Ibarra and the other in the mountains in one of the churches we are currently supporting there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/Snapseed-11-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-835 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/Snapseed-11-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/Snapseed-11-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/Snapseed-11-1-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/Snapseed-11-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23473129_10213208822468884_6650049304970898270_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-832 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23473129_10213208822468884_6650049304970898270_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23473129_10213208822468884_6650049304970898270_n-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23473129_10213208822468884_6650049304970898270_n-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23473129_10213208822468884_6650049304970898270_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><strong>Another super encouraging<\/strong>, growing, connecting, laugh-filled, and food-filled week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><strong>We were then invited to provide counseling the following week<\/strong>\u00a0in the school as well as help out with interpreting other classes where, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">I feel, we really connected and made life-long friends as well as strengthened previous friendships.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23334241_2156836654332989_3403256606830987311_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-830\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23334241_2156836654332989_3403256606830987311_o-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23334241_2156836654332989_3403256606830987311_o-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23334241_2156836654332989_3403256606830987311_o-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23334241_2156836654332989_3403256606830987311_o-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23334241_2156836654332989_3403256606830987311_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/21951076_10155575684461287_8897501277816923071_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-826\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/21951076_10155575684461287_8897501277816923071_o-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/21951076_10155575684461287_8897501277816923071_o-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/21951076_10155575684461287_8897501277816923071_o-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/21951076_10155575684461287_8897501277816923071_o-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/21951076_10155575684461287_8897501277816923071_o.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><strong>Even though it was something we hadn&#8217;t planned for, it truly was a joy to spend three weeks with Acts 29<\/strong>, and I, (Elizabeth), am so grateful to have experienced what was such a huge part of Richard&#8217;s life and ministry. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">So, so grateful for each and every dear soul that makes up Hechos 29.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23845457_10155733446441287_324244233_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-837 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23845457_10155733446441287_324244233_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23845457_10155733446441287_324244233_n.jpg 480w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2017\/11\/23845457_10155733446441287_324244233_n-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">Until next time Hechos 29!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">La historia contin\u00faa&#8230;..<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">love,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">E <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">Links for Acts 29: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/equmenia.se\/apg29\/\">Acts 29 Website <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/apg29\/\">Acts 29 Facebook <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/acts29discipleschool\/\">Acts 29 Instagram<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a 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It has been a beautiful three weeks of not only getting to know the students, but truly growing with them, learning from each other, and being encouraged by their comments, questions, and by who they are. But before I go any further, it would behoof me to answer the question that is probably in your heard right now, which is, &#8220;what is Acts 29?&#8221; &nbsp; A brief history*: Acts 29 or Hechos 29, as we call it here Spanish speaking countries, started (here in Ecuador) in 2004. It was born from an idea from Krister Gunnarsson (Swedish Missionary) and was made a reality by Richard (my husband), Peter Hermansson (Swedish Missionary), Marcia Baquero (Acts 29 main leader), and Samuel Gunnarsson (Swedish Missionary). It is a three-month long intensive, international discipleship and leadership school with an orientation towards missions and evangelism. It is based on the truth that God is the same today as he was when the first church was formed. The school gives students the opportunity\u00a0to see that, as they wholeheartedly give God a change to be God and as they live by the principles of the first church and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33359,124,3992,33360,13,32289,42,33362,33282,33361],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-acts-29","tag-ecuador","tag-ibarra","tag-la-historia-continua","tag-life","tag-love","tag-ministry","tag-mission-school","tag-partnership","tag-the-story-continues"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Story Continues... - Richard + Elizabeth in Ecuador<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/2017\/11\/22\/the-story-continues\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Story Continues... - Richard + Elizabeth in Ecuador\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As you&#8217;ve maybe heard, Richard and I have spent the last three weeks of November teaching, interpreting, supporting, and getting to know the students of Acts 29 in Ecuador. 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