The Ark Children's Home - Riobamba and Sucúa, Ecuador

God, is that really you? Did you just speak to me or was it just my own thoughts and desires? If you want me to believe it was you, you have to give me a verse. I flipped open my Bible and it landed on Ezekiel 17. I asked God what verse to read and I heard "the one you wouldn't usually pick." Immediately I realized that I was to read the first verse because for some reason I always think God has to speak to me in the middle of the chapter. So I looked at it and knew God had spoken to me because Ezekiel 17:1 reads "The word of the Lord came to me." Wow. Could God be more obvious?

So what did God say to me? I felt he said to go to Ecuador for a year and help out at the Ark Children's Home there. First of all, I want to improve my Spanish and be able to communicate better. More importantly, however, I want to show people God’s love and tell them about Jesus. I want to go out into the community and talk with the youth about God. I also want to serve the poor. I want to love the hurting, the rejected, the unwanted, the troubled, and the lonely.

It just turns out that the town where the orphanage is located is called Sucúa... just spelled slightly different than the city I want to return to in the Dominican, which is called Sosúa!

I was also listening to this new CD I ordered called "Gente Común, Sueños Extraordinarios" by Tercer Cielo and there was a song named "Latinoamérica". In the song it talks about how he has a dream about what Latin America looks like. It's interesting because for Ecuador he says "y al igual que Ecuador, no habían niños huérfanos" which means there wasn't any orphan children!