The 2025 Luke 10 prayer trip to Ecuador took place from October 20th Ā to 31st. The team was made up of Edwin and Maria Giron (EFM missions mobilizers); Jan Cammack (NWYM); Grace Anderson (EFM future missionary); Carl and Julie Anderson (NWYM); and Ana Ramirez (Guatemala YM).
Our purpose was threefold:
- To pray for and encourage national leaders who are working with the Shuar people.
- To explore logistics for future missionaries to do a 1-year internship in Ecuador.
- To develop a relationship between EFM and AMEE, The Evangelical Missions Alliance of Ecuador
Our first two days were spent in Quito, Ecuador.
- We were able to connect with pastor Ramiro Baez, leader of Bethel church and 2 Christian schools in the Quito area. We stayed at a guest house at one of the schools. Pastor Ramiro is a supporter of new ministries and welcomed us. He is well known and established and could be a valuable friend to help us navigate the relationship between government and evangelical ministries in Ecuador. He is also interested in possible future partnership with us.
- We met with pastor Carlos Pinto, director of Corrientes Misioneras, a missionary training center (started by HCJB) for Latin Americans with offerings much like MTI programs.Ā We were impressed with the mission and vision of this training program and can anticipate cooperation with them for our future missionaries and interns from the Americas.
We traveled to the Macas area of Ecuador.
- Over several days we had good conversations with Pastor Dario Salazar who is a legal representative of AMEE. Pastor Dario directs the evangelical camp in Sucua called āCampamento Efrataā and is pastor of the local Church located inside the camp. The congregation of that church is composed of 60% Shuar and 40% mestizos. He and his wife, Alexandra,Ā lead ministries in 3 different remote Shuar villages. We were able to visit and participate in 2 of the villages with them.
- Pastor Dario, on behalf of AMEE, is willing to propose an agreement between AMEE and EFM. This agreement will include use of the camp as a base where Friends interns and missionaries can come to participate in the ministry of the camp as they learn language and culture. (The agreement may include Friends use of a house owned by the camp, however the house will need $5-10,000 worth of renovations).
- Alexandra and Pastor Dario are available to be mentors for interns at the camp where they can participate in the camp ministries and outreach to the Shuar communities.
- We were able to meet a couple, Diego and Jimena, who live at the Sucua camp. They are willing to be language tutors. Jimena teaches English at the local school.
- Edwin was able to meet with Pastor Diego, of the Macas Baptist Church, to discuss visa issues for Jose Olivas. Pastor Diego was instrumental in helping the Badgleys get visas and is now helping Jose Olivas with his visa paperwork. If we run into obstacles with future visas through AMEE, Pastor Diego is willing to help us.
- We were able to visit a Shuar church in San Jose, led by Korean missionaries. Ana and Edwin were able to preach there, and we had a time of prayer after the service for many of the church members. They fed us typical Shuar cuisine.
- We attended Sunday service at the church located on the Sucua camp property. They included a celebration of the church’s anniversary and honored the pastors. Ana was able to sing a song for the celebration. Children from the Rescue Home, located next door to theĀ camp, performed a typical Shuar dance. At the event meal we were able to meet the couple who run the childrenās Rescue Home. (The wife is from Michigan. Should native English-speaking interns live in the offered camp house, this US woman would live just across the fence.)
In conclusion:
- As a group, we are encouraged by the many good possibilities and partnerships available to us in Ecuador.
- There are areas where fluent Spanish speakers can begin ministry immediately, just as Jose Olivas has already done in some areas. Tutors are available for Spanish speakers to learn the Shuar language.
- There are options for Spanish language learners to come alongside current workers.
- There is a great need in remote villages.
- It was a blessing to have Pastor Ana Ramirez from Guatemala Friends with us. She jumped right into ministry and would fit perfectly into future ministry to the Shuar. She is relaying the needs of Ecuador to Friends churches in Guatemala, which will inspire support and possibly future missionaries from there as well.
- It was a blessing to have Carl Anderson, past director of Tilikum Christian camp and current supervisor of building maintenance at George Fox University, to provide expertise in possible future projects in which we can participate at the camp.
Submitted by Jan Cammack, and Edwin and Maria Giron
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