Kid's Club

Kid's Club and their Fruit of the Spirit Tree

Last Saturday afternoon Dana and Sherry Howard invited us to go to Northwest Mountain where a new church is being planted. Their 3 children and 3 Ecuadorian children from the Seminary compound were going to help with Sunday School during the adult service. (I tried to put pictures in draft from two cameras, but they published in the order they were drafted.) Sorry, but you will get the feeling and know what happened that afternoon!

Christa Howard, Maria, and Solomae

Candace Howard

Courtney Howard

Dana Howard

Sherry Howard

Attracting Adults, Too!

The Adult Service

Boys Watchig from a High Wall (over 6')

Opening Game to Attract Children

Adam ate the Fruit Also

God put Adam to sleep and Created Eve

The Serpent is telling Eve it's Okay to Eat

Eve is looking at the Fruit

God Created Trees (the boys)

Learning the Bible Verse

singing Songs

The entrance to the lot where we had Sunday School

View from across the lot where we had the Sunday School.

The Changing view of Our Mountain

Now I would call this a cloud in front of your mountain!

Is this fog or a cloud making it so we can't see our mountain?

The Changing Look of our Mountian View

On Sat, Feb. 28, we had some interesting taxi rides with Barbara and Howard Culbertson. We first went to an area where it seemed like every road in Quito converged. We were dropped off at a Micky D's and Howard scouted around to see where the Christian Book store was. We had to make four crossing of busy streets to get there. When we were finished, we took a cab to Key Central mall. There we went to a disappointing Ace hardware store. On our taxi ride, we asked the driver what kind of palm trees we say. He said coconut and Howard said he wouldn't send him to a store for a coconut as they weren't coconut tress. He let us off and we asked him how to get to Mega, Mega Maxi as we would walk there from the hardware store. After he left, I remi nded Howard about the coconuts. Mega Mega Maxi is the size of a Sam's and has that kind of stuff. We bought our groceries and then hailed a cab. When we started out, the right back wheel made an AWFUL noise. Sandy thought it might be a bearing. After riding about 10 minutes, the taxi started to smoke. Sandy told the driver, but he just kept driving merrily along. Cars started to honk at us and at one stoplight a man got out and talked to the driver. We finally got him to understand about the smoke, but he drove on 2 blocks until we insisted he stop. The back bumper of the taxi had been pushed in by an accident of some kind and it was rubbing on the tire. The tire was starting to melt. The man saw it and helped us flag down another taxi. The meter said 2.60 and we gave him 3.00 and he seemed happy and smiled at us as he helped us put the groceries into the new taxi. We didn't have far to go and new driver wanted to charge us 5.oo . The whole taxi ride would have cost us 4.00 if we had stayed with the first man. We had a stand off with the driver as Howard argued with him in Spanish that that was way too much. The man just stood there and kept saying 5.00. ( He had driven us into the compound) Finally we gave him 3.00 and said that was all we had. He stood there a few minutes and then got into his cab and drove off. Barbara and I could hardly keep from laughing. The taxi that was smoking had a sign in the back window that said for sale. We could imagine what we would have thought if we had been following him and what everyone else must have thought!