Marc and I just returned from working in the jungle with a medical team with the Shuar Indians. We were on a bus from Quito for hours until we reached Shell Ecuador where we spent the night in a hut type of hotel. The team flew out the next morning on bush planes that landed in a village in the jungle about 5 miles from the Peruvian border. We then loaded our medical supplies and ourselves in canoes and went up river a few miles. From there we walked through mud that wanted to suck our legs into the earth. It was the stickiest, deep mud I had ever been in in my life. Two Shuar Indians and I worked with Marc to get him through the jungle trail. I had bought tall rubber boots for us to wear and had to cut Marc's pair all the way down the back to get his leg braces to go into his boots. I "repaired" the cut portion of the boots with duct tape. Duct tape is great stuff. I am sure God allowed duct tape to be created just for us. Ha.

During the week with the medical team we treated more than 350 Shuar Indians. We saw a lot of patients with malaria. We slept under mosquito nets and ate the food that the Shuar brought to us. We drank water filtered through a backpacking filter. This photo is a photo of Marc as he was about to eat a very large grub worm. I ate everything else they brought to us but could not bring myself to eat any worms.

We did have a great time. It is such a pleasure to work with doctors that are willing to take their time from their schedules in the USA and come down here in these conditions to share medical care and Jesus Christ with people that can do no more to thank you except to say "thank you".

Thank you for allowing us to represent you in Ecuador. May God bless you.
Mike Escoe