{"id":1429,"date":"2011-11-28T16:13:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T20:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2011-11-28T16:15:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T20:15:53","slug":"hechos-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=1429","title":{"rendered":"Hechos 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While you all were celebrating with family, friends and turkeys last week, we went off to Santa Rosa, Ecuador to be at Hechos 29, which means Acts 29. \u00a0It is a bible school and cultural exchange as students from Sweden and Ecuador come together to study God&#8217;s word and look into ministry. \u00a0Joel had the privilege of being one of the teachers in the school&#8217;s last week of classes. \u00a0He taught on the topic of &#8220;Called and Sent&#8221; as the students were preparing themselves to be sent from their school back to the homes. \u00a0It was a powerful time as many of the students will be future leaders in the church. \u00a0We had the opportunity to get to know and counsel Karin (pictured below) who is actually from Chili and is discerning her call to Youth Prison ministry. \u00a0It was a wonderful time to see and be a part of a great ministry that they have here in Ecuador.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1430\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Joel_Teaching.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1430\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1430\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Joel_Teaching-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Joel_Teaching-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Joel_Teaching.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joel teaching at Hechos.  Fellow missionary, Mandy Hjelm, translated for him.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1431\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Hechos_Church.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1431\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1431\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Hechos_Church-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Hechos_Church-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Hechos_Church.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Evangelical Church of Santa Rosa where Hechos was held.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1432\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Hechos_Devotions_Kid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1432\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1432\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Hechos_Devotions_Kid-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Hechos_Devotions_Kid-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Hechos_Devotions_Kid.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students had time scheduled for personal devotions every day.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1433\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Hechos_Kids.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1433\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1433\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Hechos_Kids-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Hechos_Kids-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Hechos_Kids.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A picture of the a bunch of the kids at Hechos.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1434\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Karin_Family.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1434\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1434\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Karin_Family-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Karin_Family-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Karin_Family.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A picture of Kim and Simeon with Karin, a student from Chili who is feeling called to Youth Prison ministry.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1435\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Baptism.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1435\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1435\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Baptism-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Baptism-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Baptism.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1435\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The gathering by a river for a baptismal service.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1436\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Baptism_Petr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1436\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1436\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Baptism_Petr-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Baptism_Petr-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Baptism_Petr.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the student&#039;s from Hechos being baptized by her pastor.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1437\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Mission_Team.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1437\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1437\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Mission_Team-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Mission_Team-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/11\/Mission_Team.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mission team that went to Hechos with Cheryll Clark on the left and Mandy Hjelm on the right.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a 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