This evening the General Assembly of the Evangelical Methodist Church of Ecuador begin. In true Methodist form it began with a meal followed by an act of worship. We were led in worship by a number of the pastors that we have met this week and the preacher was the senior Bishop of the Methodist Church in Brazil who emphasised the importance of the laity in growing the church and that this needed a deepened discipleship. The marks of such discipleship being Salvation, Sanctification and Service. Children from a Methodist Church just outside Quito sang for us and the Assembly has begun well. Visitors from other Methodist Churches in Latin America have arrived, as well as a representative of the United Methodist Church relief agency UMCOR.
Michaela
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