News and Prayer Requests from Ecuador

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

I would like to begin the letter with the “Good News” though I have prayer requests to share with you. What I would like to highlight in this letter is the project of amending of the Statutes of ADSE, which were sent to the Ministries of Government, Police and Church and were returned early last week to Dr. Miguel Angel Puente, the lawyer in charge of the process, with the letters of correspondence indicating that they have been approved. We give glory to God for this.

About the propeller that we have been pray for awhile; after it having been inspected in the U.S., we have been told that it needs to be replaced with a new one. I hope that you don’t feel that your prayers have been in vain, on the contrary, they have served much to be able to ship it and now we know that this propeller is no longer safe to fly and must be exchanged for the safety of our clients, pilots and aircraft. In addition, we now have another propeller that needs to be sent to the U.S. and we don’t have one to replace on that aircraft and it is grounded.

On the airplane dubbed Alas 10, we have found that the firewall (panel separating the engine from the cockpit) has a crack. This airplane will be grounded until it is repaired. This is a complicated repair and we need the advice of other mechanics. I ask that you pray we will soon be able to repair it. For the moment, we will exchange propellers with the other airplane that is grounded so that we will have one flying and only one on the ground.

I ask that you continue praying for the airplane called “Alas 15”. It still has not been released from Customs and every week we hear the same thing: “This afternoon or tomorrow the papers will be ready”. After being released from Customs, we will need special permission for a pilot to bring it to Shell; we are hoping that it will be a speedy process and we are pleading to God for this.

Today there are many people, especially teachers, outside the hangar waiting to go to the jungle. They are seated or standing wherever they can because the waiting room is full. The bad weather, combined with having only two airplanes flying, are backing up the flights. I ask that you pray that God will give us better days to fly now that the teachers need to return to their schools.

A serious problem that you already know about is that the government has fallen behind in their payments and we are taking measures to be able to collect the invoices, but we need prayers because all human effort is nothing without the help of God and his permission. That is why I also leave this as a request for you.

Brothers and sisters, our ministry depends also on your prayers. You can be part of the ministry of ADSE even though you are not a pilot, mechanic, though you don’t work in the hangar. I leave this verse with you that reminds us that we are co-workers with God, who is the one who makes everything happen. You, together with us, work together in the same way, no one more than the other, but only God.

“So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.”

1 Corinthians 3:7-9

Sincerely,

David Montero

DIRECTOR

ALAS DE SOCORRO DEL ECUADOR.