Ecuador was long. And challenging for me physically and
spiritually. I truely loved all that I saw, though as it came to a close, I was
ready to move on.
In Ecuador I traveled to 5 different communities spanning a
huge chunk of the country. I experienced a teeny town called KM17 in the jungle
near the Columbian border, then had time in Quito (the HUGE mountainous capital
city), El Carmen the quintessential 3rd world city, Higarones in the
middle of a western jungle, and El Reten a 300 person village in the
rainforest. Lots of traveling? Yes.
Highlights: bathing in an Amazonian river, walking cobbled
streets with tiny native Ecuadorian ladies wearing lots of gold jewelry, hiking
5.5 hours thru the jungle in the middle of the night in the mud, eating rice for
all three meals, drinking brown water, battling the tiniest yet most vicious
ants in the world, encountering spiders the size of my hand and winged
cockroaches in my bed.
Spiritual Highlights: Seeing countless families impacted by
the servant- hearted racers I am blessed to lead, watching racers walk into a
new encounters with their Father, having a team pray for a woman with breast
cancer who was completely healed, hearing a testimony from a missionary who’s
family member was martyred for the gospel in front of him by terrorists,
getting out of my physical comfort zone long enough to get over myself- and get
back into depending on God for EVERYTHING.
I know this is a short over view and I wish I could show you
all the pictures and video right now. But that’s gonna have to wait until I get
homeJ
