Arrived!

The team arrived safe and sound last night. No airline delays, no lost luggage, amazing. Today we will travel by bus to Compassion International project EC124. It's about an hour south of us here in Quito. And it does not take long to leave the main part of this beautiful city to be surrounded by abject poverty. People living in conditions that we just don't see in most areas of the United States.

At EC124 we will see Compassion's Child Survival Program. This is designed to help prenatal mothers and young children survive to make it into Compassion's child sponsorship program. And we not only get to learn about it, we get to go into some homes and see it in action.

Tonight we will learn about the other end of the spectrum of Compassion's work. We will have dinner with Leadership Development Students. They are college students that are hand selected to have their education completly funded. Tonight will be a little extra sweet for my good friend becoming Mike Vinton. He doesn't know it yet but the student he sponsors will be with us tonight giving his testimony.

It's a beautiful Ecuadorian day.