Pati

In the Puyupungo Dedication service last week, Patricia, whom I affectionately call "Pati", came to the altar to pray at invitation. She's 14 years old, and loves helping out at the church, whatever she can do. But when I began to pray with her, God put on my heart how things looked to her. And I began to say, "God, I'm sure in Patricia's young mind, she never could have imagined that there would be a church here in her Indian community, so far back. She never could have dreamed that one day, You'd send a white man and woman from thousands of miles away to find her here way back in the jungle, and they'd tell her about a man called Jesus who loved her so much that He gave His life on a cross to save her. Lord, Patricia never knew this story, never knew this love. But now, because all of this has happened, her life is completely different that she ever knew it could be. Thank you Lord for sending us to find Pati. Thank you for changing her life."

As I spoke these words in her ears in prayer, her sobs became uncontrollable. And she was saying, "Yes, Lord. I never imagined it. Yes, Lord, I know YOUR love now".

And when we dismissed service, she immediately came up to me, hugging me tightly and saying, "Thank you, Sister Susan. Thank You. " But I said, "Thank you, Jesus. Thank you."

Beyond her wildest dreams, but it has come to pass in her life. Because now, Pati really does know God's love.

God' s moving in Ecuador!

We have been so busy here, that I have really fallen behind on blogging. We just finished building a new, bigger, church in Puyupungo (the Kichwa Indian church) and we are having our dedication service there on Thursday. This church has no electrcity, but we will have a drum set in it for music, along with our tambourines. Charles built a beautiful, big round altar, so more souls can pray in it for their forgiveness and for their needs. I'm very excited! It's beautiful!

We also recently bought land in Yantana (this is where our Shuar Indian work is) and cleaned it last week. The ones who participate in this work came out to help us clean the land real good. No, there are no lawn mowers, no power saws, or dozers, whatever kind of machinery one would need. We used machetes, and hand cut small timbers, and a whole lot of tall thick grass! And now the men have begun cutting wood to construct the church, so it will probably begin going up next week!

God is moving and blessing in our services. We are still doing our rice and clothing distributions monthly, blessing more families than before. Also, we just gave out numerous backpacks and school supplies to many jungle children for their school year. It's such a joy to help others in need.

Good things going on in Ecuador! God bless all of you!