New Quichua church in Riobamba.  

There was expectancy like I have never sensed before. It was as if the people we visited were expecting us to visit them that day in Alausi, Ecuador.


Central part of the city of Alausi, Ecuador

New believer in Alausi.

One lady was sitting on the steps to her house holding a child waiting. There was a beautiful response on her face as she responded to the message. She believed on Christ as her savior before we read Romans 10:9-10. It is amazing how the Holy Spirit had prepared her to receive Christ.

We shared Christ with a Quichua family during their lunch break at a large business that sells construction materials and all six believed on Christ.

Quichua bilingual Evangelical Missionary Church Road to Betania

Personal evangelism demonstration at evangelism workshop for leaders in Alausi, Ecuador

Jerry Starnes teaching on eternal security at evangelism workshop.

Quichua believers practicing witnessing in workshop.

At Totoras I taught the doctrine of eternal security. At the end of the presentation on the first day, a man who had been a church member for 20 years stood and said he never knew until today class what it mean to put one's trust in Jesus Christ alone for salvation. That afternoon I taught on the doctrine of justification by faith in Jesus Christ alone.

Alejandro Guacho team teaching with Wil at Totoras

One afternoon we visited a man who had been seen many times by the Jehovah's False Witnesses. He accepted Jesus Christ as his savior and repeatedly thanked us for sharing with him the truth of the real historical, Biblical Jesus Christ.

Jerry received an excellent response to his presentation to the Saturday students at Peniel Theological Seminary in Riobamba. Today there are Peniel seminary classes being taught in Guayaquil, Pallatanga, Guaranda and Riobamba. In May I will be teaching one of their courses in Machala.

The evangelical church in Bayubuc San Jose in the mountains at 11,000 feet overlooking Riobamba was started two years ago with an evangelistic campaign by Alberto Copa. Fourteen people made decisions and endured intense persecution. The church meets in the first floor of the house of a church member. It is filled at each worship service. A member of the church recently donated a large piece of property for a church building.

Property for a new church in Bayubuc

Among those we visited was a group of ten people cleaning peanuts. They listened to the Gospel but feared making a public decision because of intense persecution faced by the first group of believers.

On Thursday, April 10, 2014, I celebrated 54 years of preaching the Gospel. What a privilege to share Christ in these high lands in the Andes! This is the only evangelical church and the only believers in four large communities. In house after house as we shared Christ, it was as if they were expecting us to visit them that day. They were more than ready to believe on Christ as their personal savior. Again, I saw God do it!

New believer in Bayubuc San Jose