Esperanza Viva

· ‘Learning In Place’: Localized and in-context training enables our students to live and to minister at home
· Classroom training in Bible, Theology, Prayer and other ministry and life topics
· Life application of those topics through group discussion and personal, pastoral
counseling/guidance
· Visits to the students’ homes, and churches/areas of ministry:
* Provide an opportunity to observe how material learned in the classroom is applied in ministry context
* Bring them credibility
* Greatly encourage them, their families and their churches. (As our students’ ministries generally offer little or no financial remuneration, it is often a great sacrifice for them to train and to serve.)
·Hospitality in our home offers informal, relational time together. Much of Quichua ministry occurs in the context of relationships.
Our Distinctives
We embrace Pioneers Core Values:
Passion for God
Unreached Peoples
Church-Planting Movements
Ethos of Grace
The Local Church
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Team-centered
Innovation and Flexibility
Participatory servant-leadership
What we believe:
Ross is an ordained minister under the
Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA).
(Click buttons below to see our statement of faith)
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Ross & Mary Hunter
Missionaries to the Quichua people of Ecuador