LIFT heads home today

We have had a great time with the LIFT team and were sad to see them go today.
We had a very busy two weeks with church and "in-school" ministry in El Chaco and Oyacachi, work projects at El Refugio and time with our facilitators.

                    The climbing wall was our main work project and will be officially in use on April 4th

       Ministry in El Chaco included preaching, testimonies and drama in two churches, Scouts program, and a lot of time spent with the youth and young adults.

   Our time in Oyacachi was mostly spent with the village children.  We did dramas in their schools, played for many hours with them, while sharing the gospel to them individually and had a kids church service on Wednesday night with over 70 kids singing as loud as you can imagine.

   For LIFT's last day in Ecuador we took them on a high country adventure on Illiniza Norte, a 16,890 foot Andean volcano.

They have been a great encouragement to all of us at El Refugio and poured themselves into all they did.
Thank you LIFT!!!!

Today was a very productive day.  We began with a morning hike in God's beautiful creation and then spent the rest of our day on work projects.  Some of us went up to the tree house, to do some needed maintenance and the rest worked on the climbing wall.
It's nice to have both Greg and Rachelle here.  Greg is here for 5 months and Rachelle is with the LIFT group.

                                                 Morning hike on El Refugio property

                                                     Tree house maintenance

                                                       Work on the climbing wall

Please remember us in prayer as we head out tomorrow for ministry in Quito and then our travels to El Chaco where we will be doing ministry for 3 days.

LIFT team arrives

The LIFT team arrived safely today at about 1:45 pm.  I met them at the airport and we arrived at El Refugio to have a time of orientation with our El Refguio staff, a short time to walk around and then a great supper of llapincachos and lomo!

                                                     Orientation in Casa Grande

                                                          Climbing wall

                                      Llapingachos (potatoe paties) and Lomo (thin sliced beef)

We will be doing a short hike tomorrow morning at 6:00am and then getting to work on our work projects which will include working on the climbing wall.

Please pray for our team as everyone acclimatizes to new food, high altitude and new surroundings.