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Global Mission Fellows Harvest in DRC
The people in the photo are from the southeastern part of Kamina in a village called Kinkunki, which is not far from Kamisamba Farm, where I work. They are mostly farmers whose livelihoods depend on their farms. Because of their financial constraints, this rural village finds it difficult to send its children to school, but when they come to Kamisamba Farm to work the harvest and learn ways to improve their crop production, their finances improve too. – Honest Baraya
Mission Volunteers Returning to Ecuador
David and Shari Nelson serve as Mission Volunteers from Colorado. They’ve developed a passion for the ministry of El Sembrador school, its students and teachers. They spent two months in Pastocalle in 2023 to assist the English teacher and establish a computer lab, which has been helping the children in their classwork, and basic computer skills and literacy. They returned to Ecuador in January 2024. Both David and Shari, lifetime Methodists, worked with the Ecuadoran Methodists to facilitate a praise team retreat to encourage church growth through strengthening faith, leadership skills and technical skills of the members of the Methodist praise teams. Forty-five musicians from across Ecuador attended the three-day event in April along with an ecumenical team from the U.S. through their home church, Broomfield United Methodist Church.
This year, we continue working with El Sembrador school and a few churches, and helping the national church create a presence on the internet. – Shari Nelson
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