Thank you, Emmanuel Baptist Church! Your gift to plant Centro Evangelistico La Fidelidad de Dios in Santa Elena, Ecuador is providing children with a safe space where they can learn, grow, build friendships and experience God's love in action. Over the past few months, great progress has been made on construction. In the photo above, church leaders gather outside the new sanctuary. This report includes updates on construction and church activities, a testimony from the mother of a beneficiary ... Read More

Greetings, Emmanuel Baptist Church! Thank you for your gift to plant a church in Santa Elena, Ecuador. Your generosity will have a lasting impact on children, their families and this community for years to come. In the photo above, the pastor of the mother church attends the First Stone Ceremony. When he cuts the rope holding the first stone, it will fall onto a balloon in the ground, marking the start of construction on the new church.  This report includes an update on recent church ... Read More

  Thank you, Emmanuel Baptist Church, for partnering with Compassion International to expand the reach of the gospel and bring the hope of Jesus to children and families living in extreme poverty in Ecuador. By partnering with us to plant a new church in the Dos Mangas community in Santa Elena, Equador, you are helping a local church to construct a new church building with the capacity to offer Compassion’s holistic child development program. Compassion International highly values our ... Read More

Everything we do at Compassion International is in partnership with the local church. We are convinced that this is the most effective approach in releasing children from poverty. We thought you would appreciate the following article as it is a third-party perspective that affirms that strategy. Since it was established in 1946, UNICEF has been a leader in researching the needs of children living in poverty and identifying effective solutions to those needs. Today, UNICEF’s research is used to ... Read More