Missionaries Reported Safe Amid Quito Crisis

QUITO, ECUADOR (October 1, 2010) – Evangelical Covenant Church missionaries in Ecuador remained safe this morning one day after military troops stormed a Quito military hospital to rescue the country’s president, who had been held captive by a rebel group of National Police.

I am the vine;you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; Apart from me you can do nothing. John 15:5

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