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At four o’clock on a Wednesday afternoon in Ecuador, the EMI team introduces a new design idea for Iglesia Evangélica Alianza – Centro Pijal. We take you inside this classic EMI snapshot to learn what was happening.

G Fanny Enrique’s wife who sees a new design idea

D Lisa Renz FEDICE volunteer who helped mediate the discussion

F Ruth Manzanares Volunteer drafter & translator from El Salvador & Canada on her 1st EMI trip

Enrique B Architect and younger brother of Luís

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H Kendra Johanson Volunteer architect from the USA on her 3rd EMI trip who proposed a new idea

María became a Christian at the age of twelve. She first heard the

gospel from a visiting sewing machine salesman while staying at her aunt’s home. Around the same time, she met Luís – who “made her fall in love with him.” She told him he would have to follow Christ if their relationship was to go any further. María was still a teenager when she and her husband Luís had the first of their three children.

D Leaving the USA in 1968, Lisa Renz served the Lord as a missionary to Mexico. Now a widow with four married children, she has been helping Ecumenical Foundation for Integral Development, Training and Education (FEDICE) in Ecuador since 2012. FEDICE invited EMI to Ecuador to 46


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