What We Will Be Doing

by Danielle

We are going to Ecuador!! Food for Puyo!! Hope Now!! The Three-headed Monster!! What does this all mean!?
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It wasn’t until after the New York mission’s trip (Alyssa lead and Efra and I Co-lead) that we realized how well we all work together. “We are a three-headed monster,” we would joke—meaning we function so much better when we have our two other heads! What one-person lacks the other makes up for—how amazingly God works all together for the good! God has really given us each a desire to help people and to give a hope that can only come from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. After going to New York to see and speak with those on the streets we really felt God calling us to reach out to those who feel there is no hope. God tugged at our hearts and gave us a desire to help those in need in Ecuador. SO…from March 6^th to March 17^th Efra, Alyssa, and I will travel to the city of Puyo, Ecuador.
What will we be doing there you may ask? Many people have homes in Ecuador but not enough money to feed their families so our goal is to reach as many families as we can in the two-week span. For only 30 dollars we can help feed a family of 4 or 5 for a week! Think about that! Here in the U.S. we can spend 30 dollars on two people at a restaurant for just one meal! We are hoping to feed at least 10 families. We will bring them the food and then sit down to a meal with them to share the gospel with them.

We will also be teaching English while we are in Puyo. The cool thing about this is that we are going to be reaching two classes of people. We will be helping and ministering to the poor when we visit and bring them food and we will be ministering to the “rich” when we teach English. In Ecuador, usually only rich people go to classes to learn English because they have the money to do it. Our classes will obviously be free but the people who are more apt to come are those who have money. We will be using bible stories to help teach English—so we will have them learn and read right from the bible! What an awesome way to get someone into the word of God! Our hope is to be able to buy at least 20 bilingual Bibles so that our students can have not only a bible to bring home with them but also the English version so that they can keep learning.

We also would like to be able to visit a Daycare/Orphanage in Quito. On our first trip to Ecuador We will let you know more as God leads! we were able to fill the Daycare’s food pantry and we want to be able to help them again! This idea is still in the making!