This is a district center for 40 Ecuadorian churches
There are dorms
and offices
dining hall and cafeteria
We went to church on Sunday
handed out candies to the kids
ate out at a local restaurant (had Sea Bass)
went to a village called La Vaqueria at 12,000 feet above sea level
the missionary did a song with the kids
this is a school at a large church in Riobamba
we worshiped on Sunday afternoon at the new church we were building
a Quichua (indigenous Indian) at Sunday worship
Missionary John Fisher translated for the preacher
This is one of three volcanoes we could see from where we were staying...it is called El Altar
This is Tunguragua (about 18,000 ft.) and is erupting
we laid a lot of blocks
cut a lot of blocks
the local people helped...including the women
hauling buckets of cement
One of the team did magic tricks for the school children at the job site
This is Chimborazo (a volcano...18,571 ft)
Tunguragua on a clear day
the dorms at our job site
the wall between the kitchen and the dining room (i helped build that)
me shoveling sand to make cement
hauling cement
overlooking the city of Ambato, Ecuador
progress ...
Quicha women on the job site
working
Three locals that work for the church full time...Lucho, Javier and Orlando
school boys helped out one of the days
hauling cement to the top
to pour in forms connecting the blocks
the "line" again
Paul...premier block layer (and math teacher like Miss Ortega!)
A local women and her baby selling fruit
locals coming in from working the fields together
kids at La Vaqueria
maybe it's a day care!
Quichua women with her two kids
two of the school kids
they dress just like mom and dad
Ken works his "magic" just before church on Sunday
Worship in Riobamba
The team in front of a restaurant
Bruce (team leader), Mario (local District Superintendant) and me!
The missionaries, John & Shirley Fisher with me
Lucho, me and Orlando
Cotapaxi, a volcano we saw above the clouds as we flew out of Quito (see the city beneath)
Jenn, a volunteer missionary with an Inca figure in Guano, Ecuador
a church in Guano
Ron is over 6 foot tall...those are BIG doors
Another church in Guano
and another
Yeah, I like old churches
hmmm
This one was built in 1534
cool architecture
this was the first one before they needed to build the previous for population growth
