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With our dear friends and old neighbors, Damisley and Oxiel Noja.

Happy Summer to all of you in the USA!

We pray you all are enjoying the nice hot weather and that your air conditioners are working well! We’ve heard it has been pretty hot there. It’s the windy season here, but the temperatures do not change much. It’s nice as always (around 75 ℉ in the day), but spiritually we are getting ready for the battle. August is the month when the statue of “la Virgén del Cisne (Virgin of the Swan)” will be carried through our little town by up to 500,000 participants! They come from all corners of the world! There is always a lot of spiritual warfare going on around us, but this year we are really thankful to be on the outskirts of town, so the noise should be much less. The devotion starts on the 15th of August and goes till the 20th and the attendees walk around 75km. It arrives in our town on the 17th and leaves the 18th of August. Please pray for our outreach (passing out tracts and praying with people) and for protection!

This has been an interesting month for us getting settled into our new home, and going on our big trip to Shell (named after the Shell Oil company who put the town on the map), where we first lived when we came to Ecuador. We still have a lot of friends back there and the Cuban family we shared a house with are planning on moving to Spain. We wanted to be able to visit them before they left and we also wanted to visit the LaBouef family (who we worked with exclusively during our first 3 years on the mission field, and who are like our family in Ecuador) in Cuenca on the way to Shell. It was a great trip and I was able to preach with Rick LaBouef like old times although he didn’t need to translate for me this time. Priscilla and the kids were so excited to spend lots of time with "Grandma Sharon and Grandpa Rick," who we have all missed a lot in this time since we moved to Loja province. What a blessing! I was also able to visit my first convert/disciple, Cristobal, back in Shell/Puyo and it was amazing to see how he has grown and is now in ministry as a Gideon. Please pray for all these people, and us, as we move on to see more fruit in the south of Ecuador!

Top left: Kids in Shell park,Top right: Andy and kids with our friends Liliana, Juan, and their family

Bottom left: Cuban missionary friends in Shell, Bottom right: Andy with Cristobal

On a different note, we have been asking in our letters a few times a year and for many years now, for people that feel called to full-time missionary work to contact us. We have had a few respond, but so far nothing has worked out long term. In 2016 we started our own mission organization with the hopes of recruiting others to work in this unreached region. We’ve been in country for almost 10 years and we desperately need help! On our trip to Shell we had the privilege to meet up with an old friend and president (David) of a Latin-American mission based out of Miami, FL. David is Cuban and has a lot of contacts in Cuba. Many pastors and Christians there feel called to missions but the Cuban church is simply too poor to send them out. We are in prayer about bringing a family here to work with us from Cuba. About a week after this meeting, one day in prayer I got a crazy idea... to write to Brooklyn Tabernacle (a ministry that has greatly blessed me in my personal walk) and ask them if they have any potential missionary candidates in their congregation that feel called to the work here. We will be sending out the letter soon and ask for your prayers in both of these situations; for God’s will to be done and for NOTHING to be done according to our fleshly desires! The fact is that there are about a half of a million people living here in this unreached province (equal to a State) and there is need of dozens of missionaries here to effectively get the gospel to all those people Christ died for! Please make this a matter of serious prayer and thanks for always standing with us! If you'd like to see a description of the work we are doing and the kind of people we are looking for, please click on the main tab above entitled "Missions/Contact."

With our friend, David, the day we left to come home from Shell.

In Christ, The DVarga family

P.S. You can now give through Kroger Community Rewards by registering your Kroger Plus Card online through their Community Rewards program. This works just like AmazonSmile (which you can also use to support the mission), Kroger will give a small percentage to Acts 1:8 Mission Society for every purchase made, all you have to do is shop like normal! Use Acts 1:8 Mission Society's Code - GJ195 - and click "Enroll." For more information go to https://www.kroger.com/topic/kroger-community-rewards-3

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Please send all monetary contributions to:

Acts 1:8 Mission Society

PO Box 212.

Harrison, OH 45030.

You can continue to make all checks payable to: “Acts 1:8 Mission Society” with “DVarga” in the memo section (All funds donated in this way will continue to go entirely to the DVarga family AND our mission work in Ecuador and are tax-deductible).

You can also write checks to Priscilla or Andy DVarga with "gift" in the memo section, but you will NOT receive a tax-deductible receipt at the end of the year for funds given this way. If you need a quarterly tax statement or just want to contact us, please just write to the address above or call. Our phone #:(513) 334-8281

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Phone: Magicjack#: 513-334-8281 Our local Cincinnati phone number that we are able to receive in Ecuador. It works through the Internet and is just like calling any Cincinnati phone number.