A Note From The Director

2020 had definitely been a crazy year for everyone regardless of where we live. Every part of our country has been impacted by the difficulties that have come with the Covid-19 pandemic. We are so thankful that our supporters have continued to support us regardless of the difficulties going on around us. Two of our…

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Headed to Tanzania

Deut. 8:10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.   Kelly and I are so excited about our upcoming trip to Tanzania in September.  We will be going to the Chimala Mission in Southwest Tanzania for 9 days…

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Rwenzori School of Preaching Opens!!!

RWENZORI SCHOOL OF PREACHING – ALPHA CLASS 2016 Monday, January 18th, marked the opening day of classes for our “ALPHA” class of students at the Rwenzori School of Preaching in Kigoro, Uganda (Near Kasese).  So far we have a good number of students and they are eager to work and learn.  They will be at…

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Day 1 Nepal Earthquake Relief

DAY 1 – NEPAL EARTHQUAKE RELIEF Sometimes there are not sufficient words to describe how you feel at your deepest core.  Devastation on a mass scale like it is here is hard to fit into a sentence and pictures even fall massively short of depicting the truest pain and suffering that is going on in…

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Nepal Trip In several hours Torrey Clark, Randy Gaddy, and myself (Gage Coldwater) will embark on the first leg of our expedition to the Mountains of Nepal to deliver earthquake relief goods and funds.  It has been a difficult trip so far as Torrey and Randy have endured canceled flights and diverted flights just to get…

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Nepal Humanitarian Relief

NEPAL EARTHQUAKE RELIEF EFFORT Hundreds of thousands of people are without shelter, food, water, and medicine in Nepal’s vast mountainous regions and capital city of Kathmandu.  In the wake of Saturdays earthquake that registered 7.8 magnitude, estimates are that over 5,000 people are dead, 50,000 people are injured, and one million children are in need…

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ECHO TROPICAL AG SCHOOL IS OVER!!!

What an exciting and educational week Gregg and I have been blessed with to be here in Fort Myers, Fl, learning how to improve what we teach overseas in helping improve the livelihoods of our brethren in developing countries and with the preaching schools and orphanages.  Its great to get to learn and develop our…

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TROPICAL AGRICULTURE TRAINING IN FLORIDA Today Gregg and I started a class put on by Echo International on Tropical Agricultural Development in Fort Myers, Florida.  We are constantly striving to increase our knowledge and abilities to teach in third world countries and we are thankful for the opportunity to learn from a group who has…

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March Haiti Trip

In March, Gregg Knight, Brandon Myers and I traveled to Petion-ville Haiti (a “suburb” of Port-Au-Prince) with the goal of installing a dutch bucket hydroponics system on the roof of an orphanage.  We had a great trip with much success.  We were able to install the system and 40 tomato plants are growing strong right…

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