Day One in Quito

Praise the Lord we made it through customs without any problems this year.  Thanks so much for praying for us. We spent our first day here visiting Mitad del Mundo (the equator) and then drove to a retreat center to visit the missionaries who built the facility.  The retreat center is called the meeting house.  The missionaries are Tom and Joan Beak.
If you think you are too old to serve the Lord, note this: Joan will be 90 on Monday and Tom is 96.  We had the awesome privilege of hearing them share their personal testimony with us.  They spent several years on the mission field in Togoland building water wells.  They built 100 wells and planted a church in each place.  Afterwards they moved back to the states and then to Ecuador where they build the retreat center about 10 years ago.
While visiting with the Beaks today we sang Happy Birthday to Joan and then presented Tom with a portable oxygen tank that we brought from Shawnee.  They were so appreciative of the gift and we were so blessed by hearing them share with us.

We returned to the guest house and began to organize all the medicine and supplies for the busy week to come.

Pray that God will give our church of vision of how we might utilize this retreat for future mission trips to Ecuador.  Pray for the Beaks to continue the work of sharing Christ this wonderful facility.  Pray for our team as we visit two churches tomorrow and worship with them.