Yesterday at our church we had a special guest. Doug Williams has been a missionary for 16 years and he has been trying to reach the Awa Indians in Ecuador.

In the photo above he is holding a "Proclaimer", which is a digital recorder which holds the New Testament in the Awa language so they can hear the word of God. Many of the Awa can't read.

HANGING IN THERE

Doug has spent many years trying to reach the Awa Indians, he is now beginning to see fruit from his labors. We were eating after the service and Doug was trying to describe to me how difficult it was to stay at it year after year with all the frustrations and so little visible results. He used a phrase I had never heard before, sometimes, he said, " I felt like I was . . .

CHIPPING AWAY ON CONCRETE WITH MY TEETH !"

Ouch! What a vivid image. Have you ever been there? I am so thankful that Doug hung in there and now many Awa Indians have come to a saving faith in Christ.

So the next time things get tough, remember a little wood cabin on the side of a mountain in Ecuador and a dear missionary and his family who are hanging tough for Jesus.