What We Do
We serve alongside the PESCA foundation—A Project of Evangelism and Social Work Covering the Amazon Region— to help train Ecuadorians to reach their neighbors for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Our family serves with a team of local missionaries, pastors, and churches to help raise up the next generation of Ecuadorian Christian leaders through evangelism, church planting, pastoral training, community development, and camp ministry.
Our Beliefs:
We adhere to Christian doctrine as outlined in the Baptist Faith and Message, 2000. We are affiliated with the Ecuadorian Baptist Convention.
While we are firmly committed to our theological convictions, we are also open to engaging in ministry with other like-minded Christian churches, organizations, denominations, and ministries to help fulfill the Great Commission.
Our Missional Strategy:
Our family and the PESCA Foundation plant churches in cities, neighborhoods, and rural communities where there are no evangelical churches. We believe that God uses local churches to positively impact its community for Christ and share the good news of the Gospel. Our desire is to see churches established, people’s lives changed through a personal relationship with Christ, and communities positively impacted by the local church. Currently, we are working in the Patate area to raise up churches in Patate and its surrounding neighborhoods.
Our missional strategy involves church planting, discipleship, pastoral training, camps and conferences, and community engagement (We describe how each of these words fits into our missional strategy in the section below). We begin with evangelistic community engagement which leads to people coming to know Christ personally. Once people have come to know Christ personally, we offer weekly discipleship opportunities for new believers to grow in their faith. Christians growing in their faith in a community leads to the establishment of a local church. As the local church is established, God calls a pastor to oversee the congregation. We provide informal and formal theological training for local pastors.
We encourage the local church to engage their community with the Gospel, meet the needs of people in their community as the Holy Spirit leads, and participate in the Great Commission by looking for new places to share the Gospel and begin a local church.
Church Planting:
We begin new churches in areas without Gospel access. We try to partner USA churches with communities in Ecuador to help establish healthy local churches. If you’d like to learn more about what a church planting partnership could look like, please send us an email by clicking the Contact Us button in the menu bar.
Discipleship:
We provide opportunities for believers to grow in their faith through the study of God’s Word and practice of spiritual disciplines.
Pastoral Training:
We provide theological training for pastors and lay leaders through certificate-level conferences that we host at one of our ministry facilities throughout the year. The conferences provide 10-15 hours of instruction, are led by qualified pastors from a partner church in the USA, and allow for dialogue and Q&A.
We also provide formal theological training through our seminary, PESCA Baptist Theological Seminary. The seminary has an Associate’s Degree level program that takes the average bi-vocational student 3 years to complete. Upon completion, the student should be prepared to lead their church, prepare and preach Biblical sermons, and fulfill pastoral tasks. They should also be prepared for more advanced theological studies should they choose to pursue them.
Camps & Conferences:
The PESCA Foundation has two camp facilities, Camp Chacauco (mountain region) and Camp UNPES (jungle region). We utilize these two camp facilities to host camps and conferences for children, youth, and adults.
Each summer, we have 6 weeks of camp for children and youth. These camps are designed to disciple those who know Christ personally and evangelize the attendees who do not have a personal relationship with Christ. We reach 1000+ children and youth each summer through our camp ministries.
Community Engagement:
Events in communities such as backyard Bible clubs for children, sports tournaments, medical clinics, or special service projects allow us to gain entry into a new community and open up opportunities for us to share the Gospel freely. If a local church exists in the community, these events are done in partnership with the local church for the purpose of encouraging the local body of believers and providing them an opportunity to reach out to lost members of their community and engage them with the Gospel.
