Ecuador Outreach

One of several international outreach ministries supported by Good Shepherd is in Ecuador with the Servant Sisters of the Home of the Mother, a religious order of Catholic Sisters residing there.  One of those Sisters, Annemarie Naiman, was raised in Good Shepherd Parish, and has been serving our brothers and sisters in Christ in Ecuador for over two years. Her religious order has been ministering to the youth and the poor since 2006.

In Playa Prieta, their missions include running and staffing the Holy Family school for 460 students, providing religious instruction to a neighboring school, as well as providing food, medicines, toiletry needs and spiritual support to the poor whose numbers have greatly increased all over Ecuador during COVID-19. 

In the city of Chone, the Sisters own and staff a farm that provides pigs, cattle and chicken to supply soup kitchens, the poor, as well as themselves. They are raising funds to construct a multi use building to provide space for new soup kitchens, religious education, youth activities and space for international medical teams that visit the area. 

In the very large city of Guayaquil, in addition to the two soup kitchens to feed children daily, they provide Saturday religious instruction, food, games and study skills to 100 children from the severely improverised neighborhoods.

In order to futher support the Sisters in their work, we are gratefully accepting donations.  You can make your donation online below (or you may deliver a check or cash to Good Shepherd notating "Ecuador Outreach" on the check or envelop).  God Bless you!