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On January 28, 2015, we celebrated Elias' and Jacob's third birthday.  Hard to believe how the time has flown! Our friend Marisol who helps us at the house five mornings a week gave them little small gifts to play with.  Morgan gave them toy pirate ships. Other gifts followed. In the afternoon we had a small celebration with Marisol's family and some friends. They especially enjoyed their toy swords! No birthday celebration is complete without a cake.  Watch as they blow out the candles! Aren't they cute? Sorry, proud father speaking!

Last month we held a special celebration of 20 years of the Centro de Capacitación Bíblica in Ibarra (Center of Biblical Training), complete with a three day conference on discipleship and church planting! Fellow Liebenzell missionary Andreas baked a special cake for the occasion. Diego, the Liebenzell Mission of Ecuador president, and Rainer, field leader, presided over the festivities. "To God be the glory!" exclaimed Diego. Missionary biographies served as door prizes for attendees such as Francisco. Praise songs such as Andrae Crouch's "To God Be the Glory" rang out. Rainer introduced the visiting team of people from Adelphos Baptist Church in Guayaquil who traveled to Ibarra to minister during the conference. Ramona, David and Steven presented an original rap for the occasion, with the message of "Shine Your Light for Jesus." The youth acted out the rap as the trio sang. I participated in a s...

This is our new church logo!  How do you like it?  It corresponds to the Liebenzell Mission's logo here in Ecuador. Progress is coming along on the construction for the future pastor's apartment on the second floor of the new wing.  Please pray for God's provision for the right national pastor to fill the job before our family's furlough beginning in summer 2016. And here is the third floor, still a dream and in need of a roof, but we need to finish the second floor first. Segundo is busy putting in the wall tiles in the bathrooms. Here he is cutting tile, and his son Daniel is working in another bathroom.  Please pray for Fausto, the previous worker who fell on the steps on Tuesday.  Since then he has been unable to work.  Most of all, pray for his salvation. You can see the new wing from a distance. Also on Tuesday, we had our final day of classes for the Buen Siervo discipleship class, level 7 (previously 4c).  This clas...