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After reading the below information we hope that you will agree with us that our work is essential if the Great Commission is going to be fulfilled in our geographic area of ministry. Your gift or a continuing pledge to us would be most beneficial and very much appreciated. We think our ministry is unique and is doing its work in helping our visitng missionary teams fulfill the Great Commission. You can be a part of our work and their work. We are a 501 (c) (3) Public Charity (click the link if you would like to read a copy of our IRS Determination Letter) and your gifts are tax-deductible. Thank You!
Our facilities are being constructed in Macas, Ecuador which is located in the southeast quadrant of the country. See the map below. The white circle is Macas. If you look north of Macas you will see the gold circle that identifies Quito. Quito is the largest city in Ecuador and for years and years mission teams have flown into Quito and travelled a day or less from Quito and done wonderful mission work. The areas to the south and east of Quito have, in comparison, received very little attention from mission teams arriving from the states. In the case of the Amazon area near Macas that lack of attention was caused by several reasons; among them 1) the drive to Macas is a long hard drive on roads that are in places almost impassable (even today), 2) mission teams generally have at most 9-10 days from the time they leave home to the time they return home and to go as far south as Macas would eat up 2 or 3 days of the total trip time, and 3) once you got to the Amazon area of Macas you immediately are (still today) confronted with the immediate problems of where to stay and how to keep from getting sick because of the prevelant unsanitary conditions (both in food and in lodging, no disrespect intended to those proprietors in Macas who are really trying to understand proper sanitation). Continued below the map --
You can see from the map that Macas is in the Amazon region of Ecuador. We at Global Love In Action selected it for our headquarters facilities because it is a city that is located within a day's travel of thousands of indigenous peoples who even today have not heard the name Jesus Christ. Another factor in the location decision is the fact that now there is fairly dependable airline service to and from Quito (a forty-five minute flight instead of a 10+ hour car ride).
In just a couple of years of fledgling operational beginnings our efforts have, we are told, been at least partially responsible for over three thousand salvations. There are literally thousands and thousands of people yet to hear. What we do, and this writer is now violating a cardinal rule of website content writing by being overly verbose, is do what no one else has done in this area --- we are that "compound" or "home" that mission teams desparately need after a hard day's work in the oftentimes unimaginable conditions of the Amazon. We offer the comfort and security of a clean safe friendly sanitary loving welcoming inviting sharing caring place that heretofore has never been available to missionary teams visiting this area of Ecuador and the Amazon. That's what we do. We facilitate the activities of our visiting mission teams and we work hard to provide them with safe and sanitary living and food conditions. You know from your own first hand experience how comforting it is to come "home" to your own real home after a hard day of work or a hard day of sport. Imagine how comforting it is for missionaries who have been in the Amazon jungle all day long doing what it is that they do best to come "home" to Global Love In Action's amenities. We take great joy in being able to serve them. And, truly, they touch lives for Christ that would not ever be touched had they not come. We make it easier for them to come and then we do all we can to protect and love them. We are passionate about our work and the part it plays in saving the lost. If that bothers you, read John 14:6.
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