Thank you for your Interest!
This Christmas, we plan to bring Christmas Joy and Blessings to 7 communities in the Chimborazo Highlands & 5 communities in the Amazon! Two trip options available!
Trip Overview:
We will bring children’s gifts, a community meal, and biblical teaching for both Adults and Children to Indigenous Communities in both the Chimborazo Mountain Highlands and in the upper reaches of the Amazon Jungle in Ecuador, South America.
The trip will be offered in a 7 day version (Highlands only) and a 10 day version, where the team continues on to Amazonia.
Highlands Trip - 5-11 December (Travelling on 5 & 11 Dec, arriving home early on Saturday, 12 Dec).
Highlands & Amazon Trip - 5-14 December (Travelling on 5 & 14 Dec, arriving home early on Tuesday, 15 Dec).
Our primary mission is to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with these communities. But we will also bless these impoverished communities with gifts for the children(toys, hygiene items, illustrated bibles) and a healthy meal for the entire community.
You’ll enjoy breath-taking panoramas of the highlands, and beautiful flora and fauna in the amazon - and you’ll minister to and become friends with amazing people.
In the Highlands, prepare to be amazed at the joy of the children - who have so little - as they sing and dance along with our team while learning about the Christmas Story. And engage 1:1 and in groups with the adults and community leaders, some people of faith, others open to learning and understanding about Jesus.
If you take the longer trip, in the Amazon you’ll visit 5 additional communities and experience the Guayusa Tea Ceremony where you’ll be welcomed into the lodge house of the people of Yacu Runa. This ancient ceremony is a time for sharing wisdom and telling stories around the fire and we’ll have the chance to share stories from our faith.
Your heart will be touched and your world made bigger and brighter as you allow them into your life!
As with all Time2Serve trips, we’ll provide fund raising education & support including your own fund-raising page with campaign progress & donor reporting.
Scroll Down to learn more about our trip and enjoy the gallery of pictures from previous Ecuador trips with Intentional 2020!!
Intentional 2020
Ecuador
Intentional 2020 serves communities in the Highlands of the Andes Mountain Range, the Amazon Jungle and the Ecuadorian Coastline. While their first focus is always in sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ, they also focus on the needs of the communities they serve.
Time2Serve has partnered with Intentional 2020 since 2024 and teamed up with Definition Church in 2025. On all of our trips, in addition to our planned activites, we look for formal and informal opportunities to do teaching and evangelism with the adults and youth. But regardless of whether you feel equipped to teach, play with kids, swing a hammer, or help cook, know that you’re qualified and that your presence will make a difference.
Please, help us bring the love of Jesus Christ to folks in these remote regions of Ecuador! Far from any grocery store or even a bus stop, these small communities rely on agriculture and raising milks cows and sheep, often pooling milk into community cheese ‘factories’. The jungle communities rely on the diverse resources of the forest and the rivers for food and industry.
The adults have varying levels of understanding of who Jesus is and the importance of having faith in Him. The children are learning - principally through the work of Intentional 2020 and local pastors and lay people, each of whom shepherds 2-3 communities. The mission team will attend church with the Pa Chancho community in our first Sunday in country with the community of Shell on our second Sunday (long trip) and we will use every opportunity to share God’s love, through our work, our words and our prayers!
