Visiting the Prison.

We have recently been to the prison in Quito to deliver food to someone who has been arrested but not yet charged with a crime. In this type of jail, the prisoners do not receive food unless friends and family deliver it. We have been overwhelmed by the incedible need of these families. When the First Baptist of Royal Palm Beach group was here in November, they left health kits for us to distribute. After taking food last night, we decided to help in a different way, this evening.

Thomas and Katie packed up the health kits of a wash cloth, soap, tooth brush and tooth paste and then Thomas and I delivered them to the families who wait outside the prison gate and pass food and other items to their loved ones. We handed out forty but could have handed out eighty.

Since this was first posted, our friend is out of Prison! The district attorney's office was on strike so prisoners entered but there was nobody with the authority to release them! This one jail houses a maximum of 100 and is over 200.

God is doing great things in South Quito and we look forward to what else He will do in the days to come. One of our churches, Shekinah, is preparing to launch two churches simultanioiusly. Another, Santisima Fe is progressing with their new church in Caupicho. Maranatha is preparing for a Holy Week campaign to start new home churches and have also added a handsome 16 year old guitar player to their praise band. His name is Matthew Something-or-other.

Pray for groups that will be coming this Spring. A group from PA should be here in March, while a group from Phoenix is coming in May. Another group, Awestar, plans to do about 120-150 performances of a play called ¨Liberty¨in Quito. Camp Lamca will begin in mid May with the hosting of a Summer missionary from South Carolina and perhaps some others.

Please Keep on Praying,


PS: For those of you who follow South American Soccer :) Katie´s team lost in the finals, while Thomas´s team (in a different league, thankfully) won in a last second shootout. Pray for Bryan as he prepares for a mission trip to Lima, Peru with his Younglife group at Arizona State.