Week 14

This week was another crazy week at CBC Ecuador. On Thursday night we all made cookies for a party on Friday night and for a present for our Ecuadorian staff (we made approximately 400 cookies). Then Friday night we made 2500 sandwiches for a party on Saturday, ate the cookies we had made the night before and drank hot chocolate. On Saturday we participated as volunteers with an organization called Extreme Impact that puts on a Christmas party in the Quito city dump for the people who work and live there. We helped to run carnival games, do face painting, walked around with puppets and helped to distribute food. All of this plus extra rehersals for our Christmas concert and classes and ministries as normal made this a very full week, but it all got done and went well.







Student Profiles:
Name: Laura Faye Prentice
Home Town: Bloomington, MN (Home of the Mall of America)
Age: 20
Favorite thing about CBC: The lack of winter weather and playing with small children on Wednesdays
Future Plans: Finish as an art major at North Park University and then become a “starving artist”


Name: Tyler Lage
Home Town: Sheffield, IA
Age: 18
Favorite thing about CBC: All of the different ministry opportunities
Future Plans: Majoring in engineering at Iowa State University




Prayer Requests: Safety and energy as we finish up this first half of the year. We are doing out Christmas concert this next weekend. With the visas that we have to be able ot live here in Ecuador we need to register with the country and there have been problems with the system for the last few months so that at this point most of the students and a few staff members do not have the proper paperwork to be able to leave and reenter the country. We have attempted a few times and will be continueing that process this week and could use prayer that it would be able to happen sooner than later because we are all leaving within the next two weeks.

Photos (from top to bottom): A group of us carrying boxes of extra food from the party at dump to distribute to more people; Deb, Laura, Baxter, Alex and Kira and the puppets that they carried around at the dump party; Luke and one of the kids at the dump party; Molly, Reid and Jenny making cookies; Dan, Laura, Mandy, Tim, Molly, Kira and Holly making sandwiches; one of the kids at the dump party; Laura; Tyler