...today at the service, we met and/or talked to:
- 2 ladies from Nigeria (who had not met before);
- a work team from Ohio;
- a lady born in Moscow who moved to Quito, built a family here before moving to Miami 11 years ago. She has just returned with her 2 daughters (ages 16 and 18). She shared that they are the only followers of Jesus in their entire extended family here!
- a very excited follower of Jesus who returns to his home in Indonesia this week;
- a work team from Arkansas;
- two "backpackers" from the U.S. who are volunteering around the country - and "just wanted to check (us) out."
- a young couple that has just moved back to Ecuador; he is from here, she is from Croatia;
- a work team from Pennsylvania;
- a dear, baby follower of Jesus who "found freedom in the prison" here and now that she has been released continues to seek to find "freedom from the prison." She is a mixture of German and South African and so is her 8 year-old son. They just received word that they will be deported to South Africa at the end of this month.
- a work team from Virginia;
- an Ecuadorian from the exploding "20-Somethings" group who is translating for many short-term mission teams this summer and says missions has him by the heart. (It has been about four years since he left "the Mormon church.")
- a dear MK grad from here (parents are both MK's; Mom is U.S. and Dad is Canadian) who is leaving with many tears, headed to college in Michigan.
- a dynamic young musical lady with a passionate heart for children who has been here for 4 months and is reluctantly returning to the states -- to search wherever she has to, to raise the support to return as early as January.
Just another summer Sunday at an international church!!!
