The Road to Rio Verde

"I will make all My mountains a road, and My highways will be raised up."

Isaiah 49:1

When the Bruce family came as missionaries to Lita, Ecuador in 1995, the road from Lita to Rio Verde was a foot path. Since then, the path became a dirt road, and is now a rock embedded road with multiple improvements made over the past year. Besides the big bridge over the Rio Verde constructed three years ago, there are now 5-6 areas where the road has been raised above crossing streams of water. The building of a second large bridge over a large waterway is currently underway.

These improvements are slowly but surely improving the quality of life for the Awa people in the Rio Verde area. Transportation via this critical link to their nation is now reliable, and therefore more frequently used. Families seem less desperately impoverished, and more hopeful. The work of establishing an Awa church continues to progress. The Shaubs (another missionary family working with the Awa) are on furlough, and will not be returning to Rio Verde until three weeks after the Bruce family departs for a well deserved furlough. During those three weeks, the Awa leadership will have responsibility for continuing the many duties that these missionaries carry fulfill. Thus begins what Kevin Bruce foresees as a transition in their work with the Awa.

Acknowledging His plan,
Tim