Life with Jesus

Dave Stewart, the missions pastor at Savannah Christian, has been here with us for the last week. Twice he has told me it is more important to live life with Jesus, than live life for Jesus. I want to encourage you to live life with Jesus as I try to do the same. It's so easy for me to get sucked into working, working, working all the time and forgetting to focus on my relationship with Jesus. When you are living with Jesus, life for Jesus is second nature.

Here it is all about people. There aren't specified days of the week where we minister to people and talk about Jesus. I'm learning how important it is to use every opportunity to engage in people's lives and show them what life with Jesus is all about.

Life Change in Ecuador!!

How else do you get home from school?

I am continuing to teach school everyday in the school in San Jose with Karen, the pastor's wife and my best friend here, and Allyson, one of the teenage sisters from church. School is going great. We are so blessed to be able to start class with prayer and sing Christian songs to teach English vocabulary.

My friends Allyson, Johanna, and Andrea! The youth group at church here :)

Allyson and Johanna's friends have noticed a difference in their lives and have started asking questions about why they no longer party and why they are always so happy!! Please pray with me for these girls as they continue to learn and strengthen their faith. Please pray that I am the friend and example they need as they get to know Jesus.

This past week the short term team here from Savannah Christian taught in the school in Curia, a huge milestone for us. The school has two teachers, the principal and one other teacher. The other teacher graciously opened his classroom to us, but the principal would not let us into her classroom until 10 minutes before school got out. Then she only allowed us to teach a few of her students. Unfortunately, we are not able to go back this week. BUT the kids learned so much in 5 days and impressed me all week with their English colors and numbers! Please pray as God continues to soften the principal's heart.

This week a group of middle schoolers from Savannah Christian are here. They are leading a sports camp every afternoon in San Jose. Yesterday we took 20 kids over to Curia for camp. The little kids drew pictures of the story that the middle schoolers acted out, David and Goliath, while the big kids played soccer.
When I served in the Children's Ministry at Savannah Christian I had a bunch of these middle schoolers in my small group. It is such a blessing to now watch them lead kids!

Thanks for your prayers and support!!!