Shuar Church Planter from Anthony Lagoon on Vimeo.
God is working in a mighty way here in Ecuador! Our recent church planting conference was a huge success with potential pastors and current pastors from the jungle, the coast, the sierra, and other Latin American countries too!
This man, Octavio, explains what he went through to get to [...]

La Mama Negra festival from Anthony Lagoon on Vimeo.
The Mama Negra festival was a complete mixture of Catholicism, indegenous mythology, shamanism, alcohol, and sacrifices and offerings.
We went to it this year to see what we are up against as a team for Compassion Connection will be moving to Latacunga in about 2 years. Pray [...]

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We were invited by our neigbors to go with them to a yearly event called La Mama Negra. It is a cultural event that goes on in Latacunga, Ecuador that seems to be a mix between native and cultural animism and Catholocism. It should be very interesting and we’ll be sure to post [...]

Last weekend we went to Tena to hold our monthly meeting with the Bible Institute students (IBCI) and Steve, Caylin and I went to a dinner at an Ecuadorian Chinese food place to follow up with a bunch of men and their wive’s who were at the church planting conference. They were all really excited [...]

So, I think Cotopaxi gave me frostbite… one of my toes has black on the tip of it. I first thought it was just a bad blood blister, but its still there. So, without doing any homework what-soever, do any of you readers out there know how to deal with frostbite? Should I cut off [...]