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Wednesday, 30 December 2015

Christmas time in Loja

Christmas in Loja, a sweet time to remember the birth of Jesus, Saviour, Lord and King.

Nativity scene preparation....
Bags of lollies and biscuits to be bought and assembled
(that is a stack of sacks of little animal biscuits, its a serious business here)
Christmas trees to be put up
Christmas lights on
Christmas Eve service with narration of the birth of Christ
Celebrating the birth of Christ, along with Toño's birthday

Wednesday, 9 December 2015

Cricket on the equator

We inherited some cricket bats from some former Aussie missionaries so John and Mattias have been have a bit of a (small) hit in the (small) back yard.

The other week we had a BBQ with our team mates, so took the opportunity to introduce cricket to them. It was fun to see Bolivians, Germans, Canadians and Australians have a go at hitting with this 'funny' bat.

Earlier this year our SIM 'team' divided up into smaller, ministry focused teams. We are part of the Equipping group, which is aimed at working with pastors and leaders to be able to be better equipped in the task that God has called them to. This means we will continue with what we have been doing up till now with our 'Growing Pastors' focus, but amongst other things we'll be adding another dimension to seeing how we can equip leaders a bit further afield in province areas.

We are a group that brings different life experience, skills, language and cultural understanding to our team, and we all are learning from each other, including how to play cricket!

Monday, 23 November 2015

A land of plenty

The other day John was helping Mattias with his homework, looking up some of Ecuador's main exports and they learned that last year Ecuador exported 6,000,000 tonnes of bananas. I knew they exported a lot of bananas, but man, that is positively oodles, ranking them among the top producers of bananas worldwide.

Ecuador is a land of plenty in many of its foods, I love this store in the central market that solely sells avocados. Who knew that could be a winner, but avocados are always available and are eaten a plenty here, especially in soups!


Anyone for some guacamole?
 
 
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