Morningview Baptist Church

Ecuador Mission Team Prayer Guide
June 19 – July 4, 2009

Our team will be traveling to Patate, Ecuador, with many of our resources provided by this gracious Morningview congregation.  Thank you for giving to fund pastoral packets, backyard Bible club supplies and donating to the general expenses of our mission.  We’ll be providing a four –day Pastor’s conference for over 20 pastors/lay leaders in the area and serving in a three day backyard Bible Club. We’ll additionally do some construction work at Camp Chacauco in Patate to help complete there expanding campus.  Below is a daily prayer guide so you may intercede for our team.

Friday, June 26th
Pray for safety as we have a non-stop 5-hour flight from Atlanta to Ecuador.   Pray for opportunities to witness for Christ during this transit.  Pray that all of our luggage and supplies arrive with us.
We’ll stay the night in the capital city of Quito at a hotel.

Saturday, June 27th
Pray for our 4-hour bus ride from Quito to Patate.  Patate is where Camp Chacauco is located and our home for the week.  We’ll visit with a local pastor tonight and have a visit from a local group of believers from Apatug.   Pray that we’ll encourage & challenge one another in our faith.

Sunday, June 28th
Today we’ll worship in an Ecuadorian church in Ambato (about 45 minutes from Camp).  Pray for God to use this time of worship in our lives to prepare us for the ministry of the week.  Pray for some effective group preparation time, in the evening, for our respective conferences/Bible clubs.

Monday, June 29th
Today is a busy day.  Pray for organization and group unity as we do construction at Camp Chacauco, begin our Backyard Bible Club and commence our first night of the Pastors conference.  Pray for us to have boldness to share the gospel with the children and preach with clarity to the group of pastors.  Pray for our first day of backyard bible club.  Pray for our bible story,  recreation and craft teams to serve with the aim of sharing of the gospel in all we do.

Tuesday, June 30 & Wednesday, July 1st
Both days will be identical in schedule.   We’ll build at our Camp, serve at backyard Bible club and lead two evenings of the Pastors conference.  Pray for us to rely upon God’s strength and wisdom as we develop relationships with all groups we’re working with.  Pray that God would give us favor with the  children and pastors.  Pray for our safety as we do construction tasks.  Pray for our team’s health and ability to adjust to the Ecuadorian food.  We’ve been in country for 5-6 days now.

Thursday, July 2nd
This is our final day of construction at camp; we also visit some tourist sites today.  Pray for our opportunities to share our faith in the public arenas that we’ll visit.  As Americans in Ecuador, many will ask about our reason for visiting their country – pray for us to share boldly about our Lord.  Tonight is our final night at the Pastor’s conference.  Pray for the preached word and the great Biblical resources in the Pastoral packets to be effective in transforming the hearts of these ministers.

Friday, July 3rd and Saturday, July 4th
We’ll be traveling from Camp back to Quito for our return flight.  Pray for our safety in our return flight and witnessing opportunities at different popular spots we visit – such as the ‘Equator monument.’  Pray for the alertness and effectiveness of our Delta flight crew.  We arrive in Atlanta at 6:00 am on Saturday morning.  Pray that God will grow the seeds we planted during our mission with the people of Ecuador.