Updates

We are so lucky to be able to go home and be with family for Christmas. Most of our students don’t have that opportunity. They are spending Christmas away from

Bobby just finished teaching his first class completely in Spanish, without a translator! (Praise the Lord!) The class was cultural anthropology and he found a lot of interactive ways to

We had a fun Thanksgiving dinner with several of the people who have really helped us to adjust this year. Even though they don’t celebrate Thanksgiving in Ecuador, we had

This past weekend I was reminded of the desperate poverty strangling the remote villages of the Andean mountains. Grandmothers digging potatoes with their hands in the fields. Mud huts offering

We had a fun night of pizza, gifts and singing at the seminary. The group of ladies who are here on a mission trip treated the students and faculty to

We spent the weekend ministering in several mountain communities about 5 hours away from Quito. We traveled with the Susong family (another missionary family here) who have been working in

Bobby attended a pastor’s training conference in the jungle. He met many new pastors and received invitations to preach and teach. Here are a few photos:

We invited all of the missions students and their families to our house for a good ‘ole southern-style BBQ. It was a total of 30 people … and it was