When: October 14 - 28, 2006

 

Where: Cuenca, Ecuador

 

Who: Primary Medicine & Dentistry, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, Nurses & Logistics (non-medical helpers), 1 - 2 Pastors (to take an active part in the Spiritual aspect of the team and work with the National Partners/Spiritual Counseling)

 

Status: Accepting applications

 

Special Travel Announcement: All participants must travel to/from Ecuador as a group. No deviations in travel will be allowed without prior approval from GHO Director. 

 

Project Fee: $1,300 plus international airfare (subject to change)

 

Team Leader: Ron Brown

 

To read Ron Browns's Biography Click here.

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Trip Details:  We will be working again with John and Marilyn Guido as well as Bob and Lauren Capaldi who serve with the Verbo church in Cuenca providing leadership for the Fundacion Hogar de Ecuador, which has a modern OR and clinic. We have been serving with them through our GHO teams since the late 90’s. Tammy Vintimilla is Marilyn’s colleague and handles much of the team logistics and her husband, Fernando, is the Fundacion Administrator. You will enjoy getting to know all of them and the great Verbo and Fundacion host team.

 

Our two week team normally finds us the first week serving a town or city where Verbo has a church or wanting to plant a church. Our GHO team is utilized to encourage the local church and be a catalyst to bring new people to the clinic site where they can have their bodies healed and their souls restored. The second week we travel to Cuenca to serve the local people there at the Fundacion clinic site.

 

We would like to have a team of 30 who will provide medical, dental, and physical therapy clinics as well as a surgical component. Our local Verbo team will be evangelizing each day among the crowds that fill the clinic site, as will encourage our GHO team to listen and pray with any and all patients we see. We need logistics folks in many "helping" capacities and strive to have a pastor on each GHO team as well.

 

Ecuador (Equator in Spanish) is a beautiful country with colorful varieties of landscapes (jungles, coastal areas, Andes mountains) as well as peoples, including many Indian groups whose languages, dress and customs add wonderful hues to the kaleidoscope. Cuenca is located at about 8,000+ feet, therfore has delightful weather year round--cool in the evenings and warm during the day--while Guayaquil, for example, is on the coast and very warm year round.

 

We stay in modest hotels where we are normally served breakfast and suppers, and lunch is provided on site by our Verbo hosts. We enjoy warm fellowship through morning/evening devotions and worship, evening debriefing times, and opportunities to share with your team mates.

 

This team tends to fill up quickly so get your application in early to be considered for the team.

 

Vaccination Information: Wondering what immunizations you’ll need for the mission trip? Please refer to the Centers for Disease Control website.

 

To apply for this trip, Click Here.

 

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