Mission: Ecuador

As you may know, one of the main reasons for helping build Linaje Escogido Church is to have a center of operations for the lost communities that are farther up in the mountains. It is the last Evangelical church up this long and windy cobblestone road, with at least four other communities beyond it where the gospel has not take root. The first community, about a mile up the road, is "Cangahua Pungo". The second is "Chaupistancia", another mile beyond. The last one is "Monte Serin Alto" at 12,000 ft (with others in between). We have begun our visits to Cangahua Pungo with small teams of national missionaries, trying to get cell groups started. The areas are so sensitive that it would incite physical persecution if you held anything like open air or public outreach.

Cangahua Pungo is nestled on a long skinny ridge	Ken sharing lunch with a little girl just outside of Cangahua Pungo	Looking up the road at Cangahua Pungo, with Monte Serin Alto way off in the distance	Jonathan and Fernando sharing the gospel with a lady passing by our lunch spot	Crossroads at Chaupistancia. To the right leads to Monte Serin Alto.	Chaupistancia
This is where pastor Sixto tried to start a church some years back, but was run out of town by persecution (in Chaupistancia)	Another view of Chaupistancia