ECUADOR

 

From: Sandra Lopez
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 02:40 PM
To: Sandra Lopez
Subject: ECUADOR

 

Michaela Youngson, Superintendant of the Ealing Trinity Circuit, and I are leaving for Ecuador tomorrow morning. We are really looking forward to visiting the Iglesia Evangelical  Metodista Unida de Ecuador  (the United Evangelical Methodist Church in Ecuador). The Church adopted a Methodist identity only seven years ago and has been working hard to consolidate its identity as part of the worldwide Methodist family.  

Michaela and I will be visiting the work of the church in several places, including the church’s central headquarters in the cooler climate and higher altitude (over 2,500 metres above sea-level!) of Quito, the tropical, humid town of Santo Domingo de los Colorados (literally translated as ‘Saint Domingo of the Dyed Ones’ referring to the hair dye used by men from the indigenous group of the area, the Tsáchila), the cold climate of Pastocalle and as we travel down the mountain from Quito, El Quinché.  On our visit we will seeing the work of two Nationals in Mission, a local personnel programme funded by the Methodist Church in Britain’s World Mission Fund. Michaela will be leading several liturgy and worship workshops and preaching (I will be interpreting into Spanish) and we will also be attending the Church’s General Assembly, when a new head of church will be elected.

We hope you will join us as we blog our way around Ecuador!

Every blessing,

Sandra.

Blessings and best wishes,

Sandra

Sandra Lopez, Partnership Support Officer

The World Church Relationships Sub-Cluster| The Mission and Advocacy Cluster| The Connexional Team

+44 (0) 207 467 5298  |FAX: +44 207 467 5285| Lopezs@methodistchurch.org.uk

 

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