God still Loves Quito and we are working on new ways to show it!

Hi There! If you love Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, Africa, India the way we think you do, then you will want to visit our grown up site :)  Same Frank "Chip" Lamca and Julie Beck Lamca, but with all new content and way of doing things. We are no longer with the International Mission Board but very much loving life as a professor of Christian Studies in the USA and Missionary in Peru by summer. Go to www.CrossTheFrontier.com to learn how you can be involved.

Re Direct

Don't forget.  Our Primary site is www.CrossTheFrontier.com and our Primary blogspot is www.crossthefrontier.blogspot.com  not that we are doing a lot of posting right now...

Now THAT is a No Parking Zone

I was out with volunteer Ramon Elkins and Pastor Byron Poma, today.  We were on our way to visit some of the people in the neighborhood.  Instead, they came and visited us.  We were driving up a hill and looked out to see hundreds of people lining the sides of what is normally a small drainage stream.

A silver car was down in the swollen stream and it was the entertainment for the day.  We began asking and found that, thankfully, nobody had been in the car when it went into the stream.

The car had been parked near the house in the center of the third picture.  The bank has been eroding in the heavy rains we are having and that, combined with the weight of the car burst the drainage pipes that were built into the area high on the bank.

 So all of that water combined and dropped somebody's car into the river.  Be praying for Gloria who is a member of Byron's church.  That is her house and the bank is now just three meters from her foundation and getting closer.  We passed out at least 200 tracts and Gospels of John.  Not a bad day.  Of course that was not my car in the drink!

Testing...1...2...3...

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Thank you in advance...Frank

Can You Spot the 11 Year Old In this Picture?

It might be tempting to look at this picture of Matt Lamca, Michael Labrador, Thomas Lamca and Katie Lamca in the cloud forest near Nanagalito, Ecuador and say, "Oh Thomas must be the 11 year old."  

Our crack staff of photographic investigators, however, have a different theory.  Look at the close up of the same picture below and you draw your own conclusion of who the immature person really is.

I Do Not Know Who Pulled Me Out

Last month we wrote about Patricio.  His father, Raul, is a waiter at our favorite cafe, the Magic Bean.  I was at the Bean when Raul got the call that his son had been run over by a bus.  So many of you have prayed for Patricio that I thought you would like to hear, the rest of the story.

When Raul got off of the morning shift, this morning, I picked him up and we went to see his son.  Patricio was receiving physical therapy when we got there.  It was painful just to watch!  When the therapist left, Raul introduced me.  He remembered me being at the Emergency Room and praying for him before he was transported to the hospital.

He told me that he is strangely thankful for what happened because it has given him a chance to "get closer to God."  We spoke about where he was with God and he said that he was closer, but did not really know Him.  I had the chance to share with him this afternoon. Let me tell you that Patricio now knows that he knows God and that God knows him!

The second picture is of Raul, Patricio's wife Piedad and their son Tommy.  As we were getting ready to leave, Patricio said that God was merciful.  He let him see that he needed God and gave him the chance.  "Only the front wheel of the bus ran over my legs.  If the back ones had run over me, I would be dead. But somebody pulled me out before the back wheels passed by.  When I looked around, all of the people were away from me and I do not know who pulled me out.  But I think I know."

PS  The final picture is what my kids call a "Proof of life" photo.  They say I should throw one in from time to time just to prove I am still around.

Write Up in the Arkansas Baptist Paper

Following the mission trip over Christmas and New Years, the Arkansas Baptist Paper wrote a story about the work in Quito.  Go to http://www.arkansasbaptist.org/

Good News for the Kyrios School / Maranatha Baptist Church

There is good news for the Kyrios School.  This week they received government permission to expand their program to Junior High School.  They had already begun holding 7th Grade classes provisionally, but now can go through 9th! They are also expanding from 100 to 150 children in their ministry through Compassion International.