Sunday, May 24, 2009

To Ecuador and Back!

Here's our Arizona team plus the "Hands-On" team and the local pastor and church members.
This is a view of the town we worked in, Santo Domingo. We were on the top of a mountain and the view was spectacular. We were told there are over 600,000 people in this city, but it looked to us that there were many more than that.
Papa got to speak at Primera Iglesia Bautista. His translator (on his right) is Ron Sutton.
Ron is sponsored by Trinity Baptist Church in Casa Grande and has lived in Quito for several years. He works alongside many of the local pastors and churches in and around Quito.
This is the back entrance to Primera Iglesia Bautista. They also run a Christian school, and this building houses most of the classrooms. The place where I'm standing to take the picture is their cement playground/basketball court.
Granny got to lead 100 children in Laura Flores (a barrio built in the city dump)
Everyone had a lot of fun, the kids were great, the smiles even better
The children were also very good listeners. They were very interested in learning about Jesus
There was plenty of color in the jungle, here is one of many gorgeous flowers.
Granny bought this flute - it's made out of bamboo and sounds really pretty
We saw some REALLY BIG snails in our traveling through the barrios - here's the biggest!

2 comments:

  1. Holy COW, that IS a big snail!!! Can't wait to show the kiddos these pics! (they're in bed).

    That flute looks cool, too! Boy, do I have a shop to take you to! ;o)

    So glad you guys made it back safely and that it was a fruitful trip in many different ways!

    Love you!!

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  2. "Wooooaaahhhh!!!", Hannah in response to the snail. Also, she wants to hear you play that flute, Granny!!

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