Today has been another packed day. We started at 7 with breakfast with the national director for the Assembly of God in Ecuador. Afterwards we went to the BLI office for reports from the staff there. I will give you some detail after I get home but it was fabulous. Oh before getting to the BLI office we stopped at a petroleum company. They serve all segments including agriculture, consumers, shipping and more. Its a very successful company that is owned by a woman which is very unusual. She was saved several years ago and is in love with Jesus. She has a Bible study in her home every week and another in the office every Monday morning. The pastor who is a BLI employee goes and leads our Project Phillip Bible study. Its voluntary but many come. The company virtually shuts down during that time. On May 1st they went to the river and baptized about ten of her employees. There was one that couldn't be there so the next week they brought in one of those big blue swimming pools, filled it with water and baptized him during work.

The employee Bible study is in the part where they are taught to go out and engage others in the first level Bible Study which is evangelistic. The employees reported with written reports of the persons name and testimony of 46 people they had led through the study. The Assembly of God National Director told us that they had trained 400 people to lead the Bible study last year and those people has already engaged 160,000 people in the Bible Study. That is nothing if its not powerful.

After BLI office we drove to Ancomcito for lunch. The women had prepared some kind of fish, rice and vegetables. It was very good. They had a picante' sauce that was the hottest I have ever eaten. But, it was among the most flavor packed no matter the heat factor.

After lunch the pastor took us on a tour of the church he started. He moved from Guayaquil in 2004 and started the church the near year with about 20 people. They now have over 100. This may the among the poorest I have ever seen. It is a fishing village. The shrimp fish. But the ocean is cool and the shrimp have moved to warmer water. As a result their income has been hunt badly. But inspite of that they have started 5 new churches. These churches are meeting in the Church Planters' homes. One of them had 15 adults and 20 kids. Another has about 20 people. All together they have about 100 in the new churches and over 100 in the mother church. One of the churches is in the Chief of Police's home and another of the churches is upstairs over a store.

The mother church has purchased 5000 square meters to build a new building. They are meeting outside right now.

We are now on our way back to Guayaquil. It will be another late night but only one more before I head home.
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