Your Missionaries to Ecuador
Ernie and Monoka Brown

July - August 2005

Dear Praying Friends,

            We would like to thank you for your prayers during the last month. We have seen various events take place of which some were great and others not so great. But God is in control and we thank Him for both. Rom. 8:28-29 is still true. We will share some of those things with you.

            First and foremost we would like to thank Faith Baptist Church of Bolivar, Ohio for their help. This made their third trip to Ecuador and as always they were a blessing. They helped dig sand out of the mountain, poured cement floors, painted, and constructed beds. They were a tremendous blessing to the churches where they sang, preached, and testified. The greatest blessing was when a young lady came forward to accept Christ as her Savior during their last service. 

            The Ladies' Retreat that took place Sep. 25-27th was very well attended with 137 women from a number of Independent Baptist churches throughout Ecuador. We had to turn away about 35 women because of not having a big enough facility. Praise God there were 4 ladies saved. 

            Our Bible Institute is going well. We are praying that the Lord would send more students our way. We will have another week of classes at the camp Oct. 3- 7. Please pray with us that we will be a blessing to the students and that they might catch a vision of the lost dying without Christ.

            Two things happened this month that we ask you to pray about. (1). Some one stole Monoka's purse with all of her documents in it. We are now in the process of trying to redo all the papers. We are working on her Passport, Visa, & driver's license to mention just a few. The bad thing is that it is time consuming and costly. It will take us until sometime in Oct. to finish up everything. (2) In September Ernie was towing a cement mixer (loaned to him by a neighbor) to the church for a work day and a large truck ran into the backend and fled the scene. Within a block he hit a second car and ran into a brick wall. The last anyone saw of the driver, he was running down the road. The damage to the machine is close to $1000.00 which we will need to take care of because in Ecuador there is no insurance to cover this. We have done our part as far as talking to the police and now we are leaving it in God's hands. Thankfully Monoka and I were not hurt but it sure messed up our work day. 

            We ask your prayers for Victory Baptist Church as we are in the process of replacing doors, putting in a false ceiling, new lights outside and several other projects. We have seen enough growth that we need to improve things to help make it possible to continue God's work. This is a step of faith for them and we know God will bless as they serve Him.

Yours for Souls,

Ernie and Monoka Brown

Field Address:                                     Office and Home Address:                                              Sending Church:
Ernie and Monoka Brown                   World Baptist Fellowship Mission Agency                    Massillon Baptist Temple
Casilla 17-11-4789                               P.O. Box 13459                                                               1219 Overlook S.W.
Quito Ecuador SA                                Arlington, Texas 76094-0459                                          Massillon, Ohio 44646
Phone: 01159322395607                     Phone:  817-274-7161                                                     Phone:  330-832-5003
Email: ebrown@easynet.net.ec