Social Help

Emily giving some Sunday School supplies to church workers in Olon, Ecuador.

We love to preach the gospel but we also want to remember the poor. For this reason we have been involved in a number of outreaches to the churches and people of South America where we have visited.

Bibles. We bring what we can in our suitcases or we buy what we can down there. We bring bibles, testaments, Sunday School materials, books which we think will benefit the pastors, and so on. A few years ago a ministry donated 2 palates of Spanish bibles and testaments. All the bibles are now gone and we are almost out of the other materials.

Clothes. We get many gifts of clothes that are either new or in excellent shape. Again, we bring what we can and distribute the clothes among the pastors we trust in the poorest areas.

Sunday School Feeding Programs. For several years now we have identified several poor churches in Peru and in Ecuador. We have helped to pay for a feeding program in those churches through the Sunday Schools of these churches. We have worked with the pastors with the doctors on our team to make sure the meal is nutritious. We want them to have at least one good meal per week. We also want them to know that the local church is where they can find the help.

Pastor Miguel Saez serving breakfast as part of SundaySchool feeding program at Jesus the Good Shepherd Church Green Camp, Ecuador.

Medical Clinics for the Poor. We have a number of doctors on our team in Ecuador. We have done numerous clinics for the poor, always through the local churches, in Ecuador and Peru. Our ministry will often contribute with the cost of the medicines.

Dr. Glenn Yoong of Ecuador serving in medical clinic near Lima, Peru.

Marriage Conferences for Pastors. Many of the pastors we serve can't afford the money it would take to spend a night or two at the beach like we have built into our marriage conferences/retreats. Thanks to the generous gifts of our friends, we have been able to greatly subsidize the cost for all participants, and to scholarship quite a few.

Earthquake and Volcano Relief. Ecuador and Peru are part of the "Pacific Ring of Fire" that extends around the Pacific Ocean. We arrived in Peru last August just a few days after the 8.0 earthquake that flattened most of 3 cities about 80 120 miles south of Lima. Again thanks to the generosity of our friends we brought badly needs food and supplies and distributed them to the churches we were aware of. We have also on a number of occasions brought food, clothes and medicine to the victims of the numerous eruptions of the Tungurahua Volcano in Ecuador.

Unloading bus with food supplies for earth quake victims south of Lima, August 2007	Pastor's house destroyed in Chincha, Peru on August 20, 2007.