What ministry in Quito looks like:
It’s different. A lot different than in Medellin
So it’s all-squad month for us which means there’s 60 of us under one roof (well the guys are sleeping in their tents outside while all the women were blessed with beds.. sorry yall) thanks to Casablanca/Inca Link and we’re divided into separate ministries within this town. So my team was grouped with Pan de Vida (Bread of Life) and it’s a foundation rooted in helping the poverty stricken communities in several different ways such as:
•Feeding Programs on Wednesdays and Sundays
•HIT Squads (Home Improvement Groups)
•Sewing Classes for women and gift them a sewing machine upon completion of class
•VBS for kids
•Clothing and Food gifting for those that need it
•A safe place for those that feel lost and they just meet them where they are
•& SO MUCH MORE
So this week we partnered with a Canadian group of college students(Lutheran Collegiate Bible Institute/Samaritans Purse) they’re super awesome and you should keep them in your prayers, I know that the Lord has some super awesome stuff ahead for each of them! So we set out on a HIT Squad mission that we were undergoing for a two family home that needed help getting another home finished. It needed a new kitchen, a bathroom and all three bedrooms plastered and finished. We honestly walked into a mess, just a bunch of stuff everywhere.
We got to tour the home on Friday(we started on Monday-Feb 20) and I was a wreck about how much needed to be done in such a short amount of time but God.
God has showed me over and over again that when everyone doesn’t see a way, He sees the finished product. Where people see a hot mess, He sees a beautiful new creation. When we appear filthy, He makes us clean.
YALL I am so excited to hopefully see the beautiful home that this place will be and I’m honestly so grateful to be able to be a part of this process and I’m not one for manual labor so trust me it’s hard but nothing that’s worth it, comes easy. We have to put in the effort to reap the reward. So I’ve helped chisel pipelines and windows, I helped shovel piles of sand and sift them. I’ve helped scrape said sand off of walls. I’ve helped minister to the families of this home. I’ve helped minister to my fellow brothers and sisters that I am serving alongside and
you want to know something awesome?
You have done those things too. Because of your faithfulness and trust in the Lord, I am here. Because of you(& God), I can extend a hug to a struggling woman, I can extend a smile to a passerby that needed one, I can laugh with a child who needed an inch of kindness, I can love on an elderly woman who believes her time has came and went (which isn’t true), I can help teach English to some awesome students and I can love. I can love on Gods children, which is where my heart has always been. Love can be so easy sometimes and is so necessary. I can just love in so many different ways and I keep getting shown so many more.
So to you, reader, thank you for allowing me to be your hands and feet in these places, in these countries, it’s not a responsibility I take lightly.
We have ended our month of ministry in Ecuador, we’ll spend next week doing some leadership development and processing all the Lord has done within and around us and we’ll be taking off on a 60 hour bus ride to Cusco, Peru. YAYAYAYAYAYAY! Please pray for me. Thanks. Hahaha
(The pictures are of the family and the Canada team that we partnered with in helping finish their new home and of the area they live in.) 
