January – March 2019

Greetings from the Southern Andes. Bible Club Outings: Our Ladies
Dena and I are enjoying the warm weather, Bible Club enjoyed a special
but winter is on it way. We have a lot to dinner and message by our
write about, but we will try to keep our friends, the LaBouef’s. The
newsletter to one page. Youth also enjoyed a time of
fellowship with bowling and pizza.
Meet Carlitos: This sweet and spunky little boy is
five years old and attends one of our Welcome Gonzalo and Jenny to Pate Ministries:
bible clubs about 2 hours from For those of you who have been
Cuenca. He was severely burned on to our bible clubs in Belén or
the right side of his face and body by Ñamarín; you have probably
fireworks that ignited some gasoline. met Gonzalo and Jenny. In this
This happened in last August, but his area, there are fourteen villages
family did not seek help until late with NO Evangelical church.
November, as they did not have Praise the Lord; we recently
money for medical care. Last month had a church sponsor the salary for Gonzalo to
his family asked us for help, so we work full time in ministry in these fourteen (total)
helped him with his next treatment at villages. Gonzalo was bi-vocational, but now he
about $350, but then sought out an organization of and Jenny are a part of Pate Ministries. The plan is
Gringo’s in Ecuador that we met a couple of years to reach the villages with the gospel of Jesus
ago. Praise the Lord Helping Children in Ecuador Christ, starting house churches and bible clubs.
agreed to take his case and take over the medical Please pray for them and Pate Ministries to reach
care and treatments for Carlitos. (We purposely did not these communities with the Gospel of Jesus.
show graphic photos and they are most graphic.)

What have we been doing: We have been busy with our The best way to
bible clubs and hosting the first teams, keep up with all
including our Pastor Dr. Herb Reavis, Jr., that God is doing
and his wife Mrs. Lisa. We dedicated through Pate
Gospel study books and Dr. Reavis Ministries is to
encourage a group of Quichua house follow us on
church pastors and leaders in Bibilan. We also dedicated Facebook and
the expansion project at the church at Bella Union. Instagram.
Thank you to those who gave to these two projects.
Prayer Request: Please pray that God would draw the hearts
of the children and adults in which we work with to Him!
Blessings, Gary & Dena Pate

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