The first of many! - Joann Korns

There are so many lessons and memories that I could share with you from our time in Ecuador.  One area that stands out is the tremendous amount of time and energy that the church in Puerto Bolivar poured into each of their ministries- from walking door to door to invite children to the children's time, to the hours spent in making us lunch each day, to the birthday party for their pastor, to the farewell party for our team...the people invested their time into each other and into us.  There was never an attitude of being too busy or not wanting to share resources.  There was even a lady that opened her house and bathroom to our entire team for the week because there was no bathroom at the church.  People are clearly the priority of the church in Puerto Bolivar.  My first devotional reading upon returning home included a passage from Titus 2 that talks about our need to be zealous in good works.  We saw that demonstrated regularly each day in Ecuador and look forward to doing the same in Wausau!