What my Latino brothers and sisters taught me about communal mourning.
Throughout the month of February I attended a month-long training in Panama for Latin American staff workers. The event was called EFO, or the Encuentro de Formación de
What in the world is a ‘fondotón’ you ask? Well, that’s a great question. Search as hard as you want in your Spanish to English dictionary, but the word will not exist. Even the almighty Google is not terribly helpful
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every
Missed last week, but here’s a re-cap of the last two weeks. It’s been a crazy busy time here in Ecuador, but even though I’m physically exhausted at the end of every day, my heart is full from all that
This week, I celebrated 1 month in Ecuador and my 24th birthday. I also got to learn about an Ecuadorian birthday tradition…
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This week I got to travel 10 hours by bus to Guayaquil to catch the end of our student movement in the city. That weekend all CECE staff from around the country came for our Staff Retreat where we
This week included taking our student leaders out of their comfort zones during our Student Leader retreat by treating them to Indian food. We tried about 8 different kinds of curry (all without any form of spicy – Ecuador doesn’t
This week we had a national student formation and training event in Riobamba, Ecuador – EFE, or the Encuentro de Formación Estudiantil. The Comunidad de Estudiantes Cristianos del Ecuador (or CECE), the group that I’m working with, had a lot
It’s my first full week in Ecuador! Time for a week of firsts – first solo adventure figuring out public transportation – first time getting quite lost – first Quiteño Rock Festival!
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