Ecuador Bound

Thank you so much for your prayer and support during this year. It has been a long road to get here but I am finally on my way.

I have my ticket and will be traveling on the 25th of August. The excitement is surely mounting as I look forward to new opportunities for ministry. Your involvement in my life and in this process has been an amazing blessing and I look forward to continuing to share with you about the things that the Lord is doing and that I will be able to be a part of in Ecuador.

It really is hard to believe that I've been in the states for almost a full year. What a blessing it has been to get to travel to so many different parts of the US and visit friends and family as well as get to share of God's work in Ecuador at so many churches.

Please continue to pray for my support. I have reached the 80% mark which allows me to travel but I will need to continue to raise the additional 20% (about $9,000) that is missing from my two year budget. Thank you for your faithfulness in this.

I also ask that you continue to pray for my good friend Earl (Man on the Street) as he seeks to move off the street and into housing and continues to grow in the Lord. He has been an amazing blessing to me this year and I look forward to sharing with you as he continues to journey in his walk with the Lord.

Finally, I ask that you keep my friend in the Sudan in your prayers. As you read before, her situation has worsened with time. In the beginning she was developing friendships with her captors and teaching them English. They were treating her well and feeding her but as time has dragged on and their demands have not been met they are becoming more and more dangerous to be with. In an interview via satellite phone she expressed the conditions in which she survives on rain water and is threatened physically on a daily basis. Sources state that they know where she is being held but the Sudanese government who is in charge of the negotiations has made no attempt at rescue. Keep her and her family here in the states in your prayers as well as others who work in the Sudan providing aid work.

Blessings

Come see me in Ecuador - The door is always open.