Ensalada de cebolla y tomate (Onion and tomato salad)
Salads in Ecuador are sometimes an unexpected adventure. Not knowing Spanish very well Timothy 1 ordered this salad thinking it would be similar to a chef salad. It was an unexpected treat. Four out of seven Downings highly recommend this refreshing salad.
Ingredients
1 ½ small red onions
Juice of 3 limes
1 tablespoon avocado oil
3 good sized tomatoes
1 tablespoon cilantro
1 tablespoon salt
1 avocado Sliced and cubed
⅓ lb of mozzarella cheese cubed
Instructions
First. Cut the onion in half, slice very thin and place in a bowl
Then. Sprinkle with salt and set aside for 10 minutes
Then. Add warm water and let soak for 10 minutes
Then. Drain and rinse the onions
Then. Add lime juice and let set until the onions start to turn pale.
Then. Dice the tomatoes
Then. Mix the onions, tomatoes, oil, mozzarella, avocados, and cilantro. Taste and add salt if necessary.
Enjoy.
Note:
Variations of this salad can also include thinly sliced carrots, bell peppers, cucumbers, radishes, chopped lettuce or salad greens.
Nothing pleases Christ more than for us to share with Him His burden for the world and its people. Nothing so weds us to the heart of Christ as our tears shed as we intercede for lost ones with Him. Then truly we become people after God’s own heart. Then webegin to know what it is to be Christ’s prayer partners.
-Wesley L. Duewel
Throughout the corridors of history Christians have sought to see the world as Christ saw the world. When we can see people as Christ saw people we develop a burden for our lost and dying world. When our hearts and passions align with the heart and passion of Jesus we truly enter into His mission.
Jesus once lifted his eyes and looked at a gathering crowd. He told his disciples “behold the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few! Pray, therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out workers into His feild.”
Jesus not only calls us into His mission, He invites us to be His prayer partners!
May we see the world like Christ sees it! May we shed the same tears He sheds!
The ministry of Jesus was often carried out over a good meal. We are glad that tradition has not changed! This throwback photo is of Elias enjoying a meal after church one Sunday. Cuy was on the menu that day.
We posted this series a few months ago. It has been mentioned often during Timothy’s home visit so we decided to repost it. We invite you to to explore how to send your missionaries well.
“Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”
-Romans 10:13-15 NIV
Realistically not every believer is able to cross cultural or geographical boundaries to bring good news. But every believer can be involved in the process of sending those who can go. In Romans 10 we find two complementary roles: those who go; and those who send. Both roles are necessary to advance God’s great commission. Today’s post explores the six types of support every missionary needs.
Encouragement
“Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing”
-1 Thes. 5:11
You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God. For they went out for the sake of the Name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles. Therefore we ought to support such men, so that we may be fellow workers with the truth.
-3 John 6-8
Logistical Support
Finally, brethren, pray for us that the word of the Lord will spread rapidly and be glorified, just as it did also with you.
-1 Thes 3:1
When I was with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia fully supplied my needs. I kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.
2 Corinthians 11:9
Where God lays on our heart we must go. If we cannot go we must give!
Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai: “Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa and fast in my behalf. Don’t eat and don’t drink for three days, night or day. My female attendants and I will also fast in the same way. Afterward I will go to the king, even though it violates the law. If I perish, I perish!”
Esther 4:15-16
Esther had a very important mission so she asked for God’s people to fast on her behalf. Every Christian has has a very important mission, the great commission! The importance of our commission demands serious fasting and prayer.
To find out more click the play button below.
Prayer Support.
It is a blessing to hear a friendly voice or read a warm greeting in a foreign land. One simple way that you can support your missionary is through communicating with them regularly. Click play on the podcast below to find out how.
Relational Support.
A friendly welcome, a listening ear, a tear shed in unison, one way you can support your missionary is by offering them re-entry support. Click play to find out how!
Folklore and legends are in important part of understanding a culture. Folklore sometimes communicates deep or difficult cultual reality. Listen to the legend of the Baby of Aura a see what you can learn about Ecuadorian culture.
The folklore of the crying child is one of the legends that have been passed down from generation to generation, which tells how a newborn child died without being baptized. Many say they have seen or heard this baby at night.
On uninhabited roads, enigmatic forests, cemeteries, solitary churches, and clear streams, a baby appears in the middle of the road crying. Wise travelers avoid the baby and ignore it’s cries. Others naively seek to help the child who was thrown away by a heartless mother, but they do so to their own parallel. The baby is actually a demon who kills his would be rescuer.
God did not shower such great blessing on this nation for the Christians to live in extravagance, in self-indulgence, and in spiritual weakness.
-K.P. Yohannan, Revolution in World Missions
God Blesses his people in various ways. He blesses each believer with spiritual gifts which empowers every member of the Body of Christ to serve in an important and unique way. He blesses each further with talents and experiences that help build the comunity of believers. He blesses some with poverty and a strong dependence upon him which is chronicled by the many daily miracles experienced by the poor. To those who are blessed with poverty “give us this day our daily bread” is not simply a wonderful prayer, it is a necessary dependence. God blesses others with wealth. He blesses them with wealth not so that they may live in opulence while others starve but so that they can be a conduit of his blessing to others. It is not bad to be blessed with wealth. But any blessing not shared tends to hinder the work of God and harm the one who is blessed.
Every blessing of God can be miss used. For those of us who have been blessed with so much it should be unthinkable to live in extravagance, Self indulgence and worse yet spiritual weakness.
May we be the people who use the blessings that God has bestowed on us for His glory. May we pour out our blessings as a drink offering to our Lord and Savior.
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