What an amazing two weeks we have had! The Lord has blessed us with the opportunity to work with so many wonderful teams. These last two weeks were no exception.

On March 21-28, I had the privilege of hosting the Dynamic Women in Missions team. This group of women came down to spend a week in three different areas of the country to get a better understanding of just how women across the world are involved in ministry. Their desire was to get to know personally women who are involved in building God's kingdom in Ecuador. We visited Guayaquil, Cuenca and Quito. During this time they were able to get to know the pastors' wives, other women with leadership roles in various churches and the OMS missionaries in each area. The ladies had several opportunities to minister to their Ecuadorian sisters in Christ despite the language differences. In one of the meetings we had, Patricia, a pastor's wife, had been going through several months of difficult trials in her ministry. We were able to have a wonderful time of prayer with her. Before she left she said that there were a few events in her life that she considered treasures, and that the time of prayer we had for her was one of those treasured events. The funny thing was that she was not even going to attend the meeting because she didn't know what to expect. It was a wonderul week in which the ladies got a better understanding of how to pray for and to partner with women in ministries here in Ecuador.

On March 27th through April 4th, a team from Ovid Community Church arrived to do a week of ministry in two different towns. Part of the group went to Riobamba to help with the construction of a new church. Darryl and I spent the week with them. We were able to build the frames for the columns of the church. During the week we were also able to attend two cell groups. The members of the group shared their testimonies and sang songs (in English) for each group. Darryl and I were blessed, as we always are, to see how cultural and language differences are overcome and two complete groups of strangers quickly become brothers and sisters in Christ. The second group went to Salcedo to spend the week working with the members of our OMS church there to do evangelizing. They did a drama in the market and visited door to door presenting the gospel in several different ways. Doug Tankersley went with this team and reported to us that they lost track of how many people accepted the Lord as their Savior during the week. It was a wonderful week of ministry in both towns.

Tonight we attended the spring sports' banquet at Courtney's school. Courtney fractured her right hand and had to miss the last two weeks of her basketball season, but she still received the Most Valuable Player and Best Offensive Player awards. She is done with sports for the rest of the school year, and now is just waiting to graduate. She has 8 weeks left of school. Please pray that she will finish her senior year well. Pray also that she will be able to find a job for the summer. She has been accepted to Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, Texas. She is hoping to get a job in our home town for the summer before she heads to school.

Josh is looking for a job as well. He quit his job thinking that he would be living in Austin by now, but his plans have changed, so now he is looking for another job until he moves. Please pray that something will come his way soon. He is wanting to come down for Courtney's graduation, but without a job, it will be very difficult.

We are so thankful for your faithful prayers for our ministry. We have seen God working in amazing ways over the past several weeks, and we feel so privileged to be a part of it. Through your prayers and your faithful financial support, you are a huge part of it as well. We are praying that God will richly bless you as you remain faithful to his call on your lives to support missions around the world.

Serving the King,

Kelly, for the Chambers