An Ecuadorian Mission Experience

Grace and peace, my friends!

I hope you had a wonderful Pentecost! Ours was quite the adventure! We started off the day by worshiping at the English Fellowship Church. Cameron's husband Roberto is the music and worship leader at EFC. EFC is a bilingual church that was founded for missionaries. It gave (and still does give) them a place to go and bed fed away from their ministry sites. It has grown and serves a larger demographic than just missionaries, but this appears to still be at it's roots.

Roberto invited me to play bass with him at church. It was a ton of fun! They have a full praise band, and we rocked it pretty good. Our group got to sit in the balcony and got a great view of the service. One neat aspect of the sermon was the pastor invited up a group of gentlemen. One of them had grown up Ecuadorian, but traveled to live in the Middle East. He has returned to live in Ecuador. He played a couple songs for the church, and they lyrics mixed Spanish, English and Hebrew...pretty crazy.

After church we were treated to a recording studio session! Roberto was allowed to use some space of the church's to set up a recording studio. It is a ministry that allows churches and groups to come in and record their music. They help them sell it, and some of the proceeds go to a local orphanage. We recorded Every Move I Make, and it was great fun! It has been years since I had been in a recording studio, and it felt awesome to be back.

After lunch, we headed to Nueva Jerusalen. The church was having a huge youth event that included songs, worship, prayer, preaching (yep, me!), and then games (Minute 2 Win It syle, dude!). The games were intense and a whole lotta fun. Afterwards, all the Ecuadorian teens wanted to take pictures with the North American teenagers. It all was good fun and incredibly awesome.

I wish I could write more, but my eyes won't stay open any longer. I will try to add some pictures from John and some others very soon. Thank you for your prayers!

blessings,
dorian


Day 6 on the Ground: EFC and Nueva Jerusalen