Queridos Hermanos (Dear Brothers and Sisters) — Bolivia is in day seventeen of total quarantine, after a week or so...
Being Salt and Light in the Time of Quarantine
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SAMS-USA Ministry In
South America
Interested in Ministry to South America?
SAMS-USA missionaries partner with Anglican/Episcopal churches in this region to grow the Kingdom of God. We hope you will be encouraged or inspired by these stories and reports from current and former missionaries in the field. We also encourage you to consider becoming a sender to this part of the world.
Are you sensing a call to South America? We'd love to have a conversation with you.
Ron McKeon: A Life in the Path of Jonah, Job, & Mary
“Where there is a will, there is a way”- especially if it is the will of God. Ron McKeon, SAMS missionary with his...
Carry On Advent: Ponderings
These past months I have done a lot of driving, and while Heidi works on communications, I think about, contemplate,...
Ron and Debby McKeon
We hope as Spring approaches that any lingering snow has become a memory, and that you are being blessed by...
Journeys in Peru: Part 3
Trying to book airline flights.Fr Phil had managed to book their four legs of the airplane flights in Peru from...
Journeys in Peru: Part 2
As many of you know from the January e-newsletter, I (Susan) am spending the month of February in Peru...
Journeys in Peru: Part 1
Susan Park, SAMS Associate Missionary, is currently serving in Peru. Read about her journey thus far.
Back to Peru
As I am heading to Peru tomorrow I covet prayer covering while I am away. The purpose of this trip is to lead a retreat for the teachers at San Mateo School as we prepare them to share leadership this … Continue reading → …
Today I am reminded of Psalm 138
Date: 2017-01-29 00:00:00For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed…
Today I am reminded of Psalm 139
Date: 2017-01-29 00:00:00For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed…
A little about…
Date: 2017-01-18 00:00:00Wednesday! This is my long day. I start work at Carmen Bajo around 8:30AM, teach 2 two hour sewing sessions, break for lunch, resume teaching until 4:30PM and then head down the hill to the church to help with an evening women’s group until 7PM. This is a typical day… well actually there is no “typical…
Work at Carmen Bajo
Date: 2017-01-12 00:00:00Life is unpredictable when you are living 9,350 feet above sea level, but at least the views are incredible! On Tuesday I started my project at the sewing studio in Carmen Bajo, a low-to-no-income neighborhood located on a steep mountainside in Quito. The facility at Carmen Bajo serves the community in multiple ways– child daycare,…