WESTSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH
JULY 2014 NEWSLETTER
ECUADOR 2014 J U L Y
n July 25th our team of 10 'goers' will be departing from Toronto and traveling to Quito, Ecuador on the way to the jungle village of Shandia. While the team is in Shandia we will be engaging the community in a number of different ways - helping to train local church leaders, running kids and youth programs and doing construction. Perhaps, most importantly, as we do each of these things, we will be continuing to build relationships with the missionaries and people of the village. Leading up to the actual trip, final preparations for each aspect of our ministry will need to be
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concluded as well as all of the last minute travel details. While there are a lot of tasks to be completed we would like to ask you to help us by doing one really important thing: pray. As we continue to prepare and then set out on the trip, would you keep the following things on your prayer list?
HEALTH AND SAFETY OF THE TEAM
ENERGY/EXCITEMENT FOR THE PROJECTS THAT WE ARE GIVEN THE ONGOING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WBC AND SHANDIA PRODUCTIVE MINISTRY DURING THE TRIP (JULY 25 - AUGUST 4) Thank you so much for your commitment to support this team! We look forward to all that God will do in us and through us!
TEAM UNITY RECEPTIVE HEARTS IN SHANDIA
One of the first things they teach you in driving school is to check your blind spot. It's that spot that even when you check your mirrors isn't visible. If you don't, you might be in trouble. Just like in driving, we all have blind spots in our everyday lives problems that we don't readily see or C U R R E N T
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Pastor Dave on behalf of our Ecuador 2014 Mission Team.
address, areas of danger in our lives that we don't often check or take stock of. Just like in driving, you can get away with not checking your blind spot for a while, but eventually it will cost you, eventually you will hit something. When that happens, you'll wish you checked your blind spot! S E R I E S
BLIND SPOTS
SUMMER KIDS CLUB & JR. HIGH Sunday July 6th and 20th 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Sunday August 10th and 24th 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM *Please check in at around 10:50 AM
June Unified Giving: $16,625.51
WE ARE EXCITED TO WELCOME INTO MEMBERSHIP:
AIRPORT DRIVERS NEEDED FOR ECUADOR TRIP
• Peter Bamikole • Deb Fordham • Tyler Welch
The Ecuador Team is looking for people willing to help them to and from the Pearson International Airport.
• Felix Chan • Allison Rush • Ye Yuan
*July 25th: Leave Westside at 11 AM *August 4th: Arrive in TO at 12:30 AM
Required Unified Giving: $16,826
Ecuador: $5,150