Ecuador March 18 - 26/2017, SR1303

URGENT NEEDS:  Medical Providers, Pharmacist, Physical Therapist

Dr. Dave Maddy and Ron Brown will be leading this team to Ecuador.  Dave and Dr. Tim Daugherty have been partnering in dental missions for many years and have been the impetus behind recruiting an amazing team of dental students and dentists serving as mentors, from the Univ. of Louisville. They have also established some great connections from physicians in CA that have led our CMDA chapters there and recruited medical students to join these teams.  Haiti, Peru and two years in Honduras have been the most recent 4 year history with Dave and Tim and GHO teams.

Marilyn Guido, RN, and her husband, John, have been in Ecuador 29 years and hosting CMDA/ GHO teams for 20 plus years.  John has given the Verbo Ecuador church amazing leadership and has also been a speaker, leader and mentor for many of the Verbo churches in other South American countries.   The first Verbo church that they planted in Cuenca has in turn helped spawn Verbo churches all over Ecuador.  Learn more about their ministry here http://www.verbocuenca.org/Ministries/Family-Health-Foundation

Tammy Vintimilla is Marilyn’s assistant and does lots of the logistics in hosting our GHO Teams. She and her husband, Fernando have been gifted leaders in the Verbo outreaches. I have had the joy of leading GHO teams hosted by them since 1999 and to this day Ecuador is one of my very favorite countries because of the beautiful and varied people groups, amazing national partners, and the stunning beauty of the land of the Andes Mountains, Pacific Coast and Amazon jungle.

We will be hosted by Verbo Norte church who has been praying for a medical team to come and support their church by reaching new people outside of their normal contacts. When Marilyn called them about hosting a GHO team in March 2017, they were amazed how fast God had answered their prayers.  The section of Quito that we will target is called Roldós in the north end.

Quito (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkito]), formally San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city of Ecuador, and at an elevation of 2,850 meters (9,350 ft.) above sea level, it is the highest official capital city in the world.[1] With a population of 2,671,191 according to the last census (2014), Quito is the second most populous city in Ecuador, after Guayaquil. In 2008, the city was designated as the headquarters of the Union of South American Nations.

The historic center of Quito has one of the largest, least-altered and best-preserved historic centers in the Americas.  Quito and Kraków, Poland, were the first World Cultural Heritage Sites declared by UNESCO, in 1978.[4] The central square of Quito is located about 25 kilometers (16 mi) south of the equator; the city itself extends to within about 1 kilometer (0.62 mi) of zero latitude. A monument and museum marking the general location of the equator is known locally as la mitad del mundo (the middle of the world), to avoid confusion, as the word ecuador is Spanish for equator.

Team Leaders:  Dave Maddy DMD - [email protected] & Ron Brown - [email protected]

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