Yantana Church Finally Finished!

After working hard for several months now, building doors, windows, steps, benches, altar, podium, a beautiful rock walkway, our Yantana church is finally finished!! We have laboured many hours, sweated many days, to finish this church.
Our work there started a year ago in a Shuar Indian family's home. They welcomed us to teach the Word of God, and they received it. So God instructed us to build a church there. While doing so, we have had numerous other Shuar's stopping by to visit, asking us when the doors will be open, when services will begin. So, we are excited that the day has come! We'll be having our first service there next week.

We can't wait to see what God is going to do in the lives of the Shuar Indians, too!

Puyupungo Work-If you build it, they will come!

Our Puyupungo Kichwa Indian church is just exploding!!! We built our first one, small and made of bamboo and palmetto leaves in 2008, designed to seat 40. When God started sending folks, we numbered 65 in it. We outgrew it. So we built another one, bigger to seat more people, in Sept 2009. And God has sent more people. We have about 90 people in the church now.
We use the new church and the old bamboo one for 2 children's classes. But it don't stop there. We just bought more land so we can build another building to put another children's class!
We are so excited that God is changing the Indians, showing them a new way to live, a more blessed way, while remaining beautiful Kichwa's. And this is only just the beginning! To God be the glory!