Mission: Ecuador

Parada Siete is in the Calderon area, just North of Quito where many of the churches we work with through "Project Great Commission" are. This was our first day; we didn't know how it would really go even though we spent a good deal of time training the church members the night before. Well, it went so smoothly we were astonished! The only problem we encountered, which was a common theme in other churches, was that we were a bit thin in regards to patients in the early morning... but Dr. Weeden never sat idle and we saw around 180 people. We ended the day with a nice service where we were treated to some indigenous music.

Volcano Cotopaxi	Our fancy van for some of the days	Preparing the area for patients	A happy teen	Segundo sharing the Gospel	the neighborhood
The church	A lady carrying food for her animals	A house across the street from the church	We passed out lots of stuff for the kids	A happy but shy kid	Rod Bond, with our bus driver, Fernando
Vicente sharing the Gospel	Our eye chart: we used symbols because many could not read	Mom and daughter	Preparing the "stuff"	Tracts and a bible were the tools for the Evangelists	An elderly lady
Waiting to see the Doc	Dr. Mike checks a man	I can read now!	Evangelizing	Evangelizing	Chart exams
Evangelizing	Fitting a pair of glasses	A happy girl	Exam	Chart exam	A happy family
The stove	Our supper; "Fritada"	Boiling chicken (it was running around a couple of hours earlier)	Gisela and Salome, our interpreters	The ladies in the kitchen	The dining hall