We hope that you enjoy the holiday with family and friends! There is nothing like celebrating God's love to us - in sending His Son to be our Savior! May your days be filled with love, laughter and thankfulness.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Merry Christmas Everyone . . .
We hope that you enjoy the holiday with family and friends! There is nothing like celebrating God's love to us - in sending His Son to be our Savior! May your days be filled with love, laughter and thankfulness.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
The Christmas Parties December 3 - 7, 2008
I haven't had time to post more photos from our five days of Christmas parties the first week of December. In the meantime, I thought you might enjoy this video of the parties - you'll see lots of our volunteers who came from the US and Canada to help us out! We are so grateful to them and it was a wonderful week - the best way to start out the holiday season! Enjoy! If you prefer to watch the video on YouTube, click here.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Misión Compartida - Shared Mission
During this holiday season, gifts and presents are often on our mind, as well as remembering, that most wonderful gift of all - the born of Jesus here on earth! And sometimes, it's good to remember the unusual gifts as well.
This past Thursday through Saturday, HCJB Global's FM radio station here in Quito (and the one on the coast in Guayaquil) celebrated "Mision Compartida" (Shared Mission). The idea of these three days is to to strengthen the relationship between our radio ministry with their listeners and to raise funds for the coming year's budget in order to keep our FM station on the air.
As we ask our listeners to donate to the radio ministry, we often get very unusual gifts. Nathan and I passed by the HCJB compound several times to visit daddy (who was providing technical support to the radio staff as they received donations from the 100's of visitors who came that day. And we noticed a number of unusual gifts by the donors (gifts that are received and then sold again to raise additional funds). The gifts included several chickens, three guinea pigs (which is a delicacy here in Ecuador - they aren't pets here! sorry! they went for $3.00 each), 500 baby chickens - sold at 20 cents each - we thought about buying a couple for Nathan as he seemed to love them, but he just about killed one by grabbing it by the head and throat so we decided to wait until he's a bit older! Oh and then there were strawberries! I was pleasantly surprised Saturday evening when Santi came home with a bunch of export-quality strawberries for us! YUM!
Anyways - Misión Compartida (Shared Mission) is a wonderful time when our radio staff (Santi included) is encouraged by the response from our listeners - a chance to hear about how God uses radio to work in their lives and an opportunity to see God work as funds are raised to keep FM on the air. Last I heard, approximately $140,000 was raised over the three days! What a blessing to see our listeners giving sacrificially to keep Christian radio going in Quito.
Live radio programming going on during the 3-day event. . . .
Receiving donations from a listener who came to visit the station
The tent for children - facepainting, music and games! This was a hit!
The tent where items brought in by the donors were sold to raise additional funds
The Quichua tent where more items were brought in by the indigenous community to be sold.
This past Thursday through Saturday, HCJB Global's FM radio station here in Quito (and the one on the coast in Guayaquil) celebrated "Mision Compartida" (Shared Mission). The idea of these three days is to to strengthen the relationship between our radio ministry with their listeners and to raise funds for the coming year's budget in order to keep our FM station on the air.
As we ask our listeners to donate to the radio ministry, we often get very unusual gifts. Nathan and I passed by the HCJB compound several times to visit daddy (who was providing technical support to the radio staff as they received donations from the 100's of visitors who came that day. And we noticed a number of unusual gifts by the donors (gifts that are received and then sold again to raise additional funds). The gifts included several chickens, three guinea pigs (which is a delicacy here in Ecuador - they aren't pets here! sorry! they went for $3.00 each), 500 baby chickens - sold at 20 cents each - we thought about buying a couple for Nathan as he seemed to love them, but he just about killed one by grabbing it by the head and throat so we decided to wait until he's a bit older! Oh and then there were strawberries! I was pleasantly surprised Saturday evening when Santi came home with a bunch of export-quality strawberries for us! YUM!
Anyways - Misión Compartida (Shared Mission) is a wonderful time when our radio staff (Santi included) is encouraged by the response from our listeners - a chance to hear about how God uses radio to work in their lives and an opportunity to see God work as funds are raised to keep FM on the air. Last I heard, approximately $140,000 was raised over the three days! What a blessing to see our listeners giving sacrificially to keep Christian radio going in Quito.
Live radio programming going on during the 3-day event. . . .
Receiving donations from a listener who came to visit the station
The tent for children - facepainting, music and games! This was a hit!
The tent where items brought in by the donors were sold to raise additional funds
The Quichua tent where more items were brought in by the indigenous community to be sold.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
First Hair Cut
Nathan's hair was hanging in his eyes so it was time . . . . time to bite the bullet and take him in for his first hair cut. And he did surprisingly well! It helped that he was sitting in a cool car!
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Christmas at the Hogar
On Wednesday we went out with about 45 of the team members from the US and Canada to celebrate Christmas at the Hogar Betania (Bethany Home for the elderly). . . . what a special afternoon that was. . . .
Lots of games, coloring, crafts, nail painting, and even tattoes (the ladies loved the tattoes of the butterflies!). And we can't forget the photo with Santa!
And then we provided an extra special meal for them of chicken, rice and a salad. They gobbled it up! And ended with a Christmas cake for dessert.
I think my favorite time was when the group sang Christmas carols to the elderly as they were enjoying their Christmas meal . . . . it felt like all of heaven's angels were right there in the room with us! In spite of all the sad things - the elderly who can't care for themselves, no family members to be found, typical nursing home smells, - there was joy as we watched the residents enjoy their chicken and listen to the caroling . . . . what a blessing!
To enjoy some photos from this event, please click here . . . .
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