Prayer Requests
Off to Santo Domingo
We will be heading to the Camp in Santo Domingo on Wednesday and be there through Sunday for an International Leadership Summit. We are excited to be a part of this amazing event and hope to learn a lot. We …
Oh no!
ROAD CLOSED!!!! This is the scene on the Pan-american Highway heading north to Cayambe, the road we take in our travels up there. This landslide and road closure is a result of the most recent earthquake and its accompanying after …
Shaken Up!
This was the scene outside our window yesterday as an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale shook all of Quito with its epicenter just kilometers away from us. Thankfully, because of the way that construction is done here, …
Missionaries sent out!
This past Saturday I had the exciting privilege to help send out a team of missionaries from Iglesia Emanuel. A team of 20 individuals, pictured above, have traveled all the way to Guayaquil, to partner with a church there participate …
Busy Week
We’ve got a lot happening this week! We will be welcoming and hosting a Vision Team from one of our primary supporting churches, New Harvest Christian Church of Oregon, OH. They will be arriving Wednesday night and Joel will be …
Cayambe Meeting
Joel ran up to Cayambe last evening for a 4.5 hour meeting to discuss the launch of our project in collaboration with Iglesia Emanuel. It was an incredibly blessed time. To see the folks of that area and from the …
We have an Ecuadorian!!!
We have us an Ecuadorian in the family!!!! Yesterday, we were successful in finally getting Esther’s Ecuadorian Birth Certificate! At the same time, we were then able to get Esther’s Cedula, which is an official identity card that shows that …
Update on Birth Certificate
Update on the Birth Certificate ordeal…. we were able to visit with the team from New London Covenant Church in Minnesota this morning. It was very nice to greet them and spend a little bit of time with them. And …
Prayer Requests for this week
We have a couple of really big prayer requests for this week. Please pray for Joel’s parents, Ruth & Earl Delp, as they have had their share of serious struggles of recent. Please pray for them and that God’s peace …
Quicker than we thought
This picture may accurately depict what could be our lives here very soon.
Today, we are flying back to Quito to move into our new apartment and adjust back to life in Ecuador again. We had been planning that once …
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