Mission: 
Ecuador
Ecuador
Mission Team: May 2008
Ecuador
Mission Team: May 2008
The mission team from Oakland Baptist of Corinth, Mississippi holding VBS at Linaje Escogido church.
Team members: Kenny Miles, Katie Miles, Jordan Pinkston, Taylor Lewis, Billy Taylor, and Lindsey Taylor.
Translators: Melissa Bond, Adrian Mejia, Santiago Mejia, Estevan Mejia, and Danny Kang.The mission team came here on a very different trip than normal. Yes, we did VBS and evening outreach for the family each day (which is a norm for us), but this time it was in some hard areas that required a great deal of flexibility. In fact we put flexibility to the test. We targeted 4 unreached areas in particular; Monte Serin Alto, Chaupiestancia, Cangahua Pungo, and La Victoria de Quinche. At the last minute, Monte Serin Alto turned us down, so we added a day to another area. Weeks beforehand we saturated the villages of Chaupiestancia and Cangahua Pungo above our outpost church, Linaje Escogido with invitations. We could not hold our outreach in those areas due to persecution, so we invited them down the mountain to the church. It was very successful with 100+ kids the first day and 90 the second. We also held outreaches in Chambitola, a school in Pifo, and our high point for the week, La Victoria. La Victoria is where we've been holding a clandestine bible study in an area of persecution. We prayed for success and protection: we got both in abundance. 80 kids and 20 to 30 adults (and a dozen or so children too small to participate) blessed our outreach. Many prayed for salvation; it was the first time that most ever heard the gospel.
All in all, the group gets an A+ for flexibility, as we changed plans at one level or another EVERY DAY. Even the last day, we decided at the last minute to help Debbie Bond paint verses on some murals in Quito outside the school where she works. It was a wonderful experience as well, and we shared another few hundred tracts while playing Christian music. One teen was especially convicted by the Holy Spirit and we shared the gospel with him in great detail... pray that he gets saved!
Below, please find a few of the pictures from the trip. It was a blessed one!
| The Indigenous Church at Chambitola |
Lindsey, |
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| Linaje Escogido Church |
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| La Victoria:
An area of persecution gets the Gospel |
We were denied the use of the community center, so a family generously allowed us to use their home property for the VBS |
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Just as we were explaning But God had a plan, |
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At night, as per normal, we held our family outreach with testimonies, music, a movie, and sharing the gospel. At La Victoria we were in a grain shed. |
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| Helping Deb with her murals was a spontaneous thing that really blessed us on Saturday. |
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