Ross and Mary - Ecuador: Successful Airport Run for Mary - Quichua mission update to Venezuela Amazon indigenous groups

October 3, 2025

Dear Praying Friends,

Praise God for open roads between Riobamba and the Quito airport that enabled Mary to make her overnight flight to Atlanta on Wed night/Thurs.  Mary extended her layover in Atlanta to spend a few days visiting our son Jonathan and his family who just recently relocated back to Atlanta from Scotland!

Please continue to pray for me (Ross), as I close down our home in Ecuador and make my airport run next week on Oct 8, arriving on in Oxford Ohio on Oct 9th. and pray for the care of our home in Ecuador while away

Quichua Mission outreach in Venezuela!

We are excited to partner with a Quichua mission out-reach effort to several Venezuelan amazon indigenous groups through the ministry of our National co-worker Javier Zurita.

Pray for a long term project to start a Bible Training Center through our CETI program that will target 5 indigenous ethnic groups who have little access to theological training. This project is one of the outcomes of our short term humanitarian outreach along side the Quichua church Jesus el Buen Pastor in Caracas Venezuela. Below is the continuation of Javier's mission report along the Orinoco river from our last update.

"We are very grateful to have been able to hold our 2nd Congress in the Amazon Rainforest, under the theme "Equipped for Every Good Work," based on 2 Timothy 3:7. The purpose of this event was to provide ministry tools to indigenous communities located in the rainforest along the Orinoco River.

The event served children, young people, and adults simultaneously. A total of 306 people attended, representing 18 churches of different dialects (Jivi, Puinabe, Piaroa, Curripaco).

The topics covered during this time were, for the adults (leaders): Bible exposition using oral elements (this workshop lasted two days). The couples attended the Couples Workshop "Your Difference Complements Me" (which lasted two days). The young people spent three days developing the topic "Integrity and Holiness," and the children enjoyed a time of teaching, games, and crafts under the theme "Exalted," based on Psalm 34:3.

During these days, food was shared with these communities; medical care was provided, and gifts were given to the children who participated in the conference.

There was a call of commitment to God, with many young people taking a step forward. The pastors present at the conference also expressed the need to continue being prepared on these topics on a more ongoing basis.

One of these pastors spoke about the need for resources like "Healing the Wounds of the Heart," which was shared at a previous conference, due to the growing increase in depression and suicide among Indigenous people (something that would not be expected within these communities).

We are grateful to God for His care in leading us safely and bringing us back. At the same time, He allows us to be part of what God continues to do in the Amazon rainforest in Venezuela and Colombia. We are grateful for His kindness to the Indigenous communities and His love for them.

We ask for your prayers for the efforts required to reach these places. These efforts are very costly for our churches, even though we are within the same country, due to the river travel that increases expenses.

Let us pray for the Indigenous people who are making efforts to go deeper into the jungle. One of the young people at the conference shared with us that a week later he would be traveling 10 days upriver to share the gospel with other communities.

Let us pray for the emotional and spiritual health of the Indigenous people of the Amazon. Especially for those experiencing adverse emotional episodes.

Let us pray for the expansion of God's Kingdom. Serving together in a Quichua outreach to the Venezuelan Amazonian indigenous people, Pastor Javier Zurita.

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Our warm and sincere, "THANKS!" to you for your prayer and/or financial support of our ministry. We can't do this alone! Thanks to you who have dropped us notes of encouragement. 

Together we are part of the body of Christ, ministering to other parts of His body, in Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and the expanding Latin American region!

Warm Blessings, "Dios Bendiciachun"

Ross &/for Mary

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