OUR TEAM
We work together in partnership with different unique gifts and capacities but with one goal, to serve the medically underprivileged and children in at risk situations. Each member of the team is unique and different and brings a set of skills that serves the team. We all work in our own areas but work together for the greater good and for the greater team to make the lives of the people we serve just a little bit better. Our team works in four different areas: administration, the medical clinic, the home for at-risk children and community development.
Administration
Esther Moreira
Forever Flowers Administrator
Carla Cabascango
Technical Coordinator
Joel Delp
missionary | pastor
Kim Delp
missionary | nurse practitioner
Medical Clinic
Alejandro Zapata
Lab Technician
Yessenia Vargas
Physical Therapist
Yadira Maldonado
doctor
Lucy Maldonado
dentist
Anita arboleda
general services assistant
Home for At-Risk Children
Monica Peñafiel
care worker
Gabriela Valenzuela
clinical psychologist
lorena farinango
care worker
Nancy Villalba
care worker | CHEF
Gustavo Iguago
care worker | Transportation
jenny chavez
care worker
MiriaM valle
public relations
margoth monteros
care worker
Marjury Rocha
Care Worker
silvia gualavisi
care worker
Gabriela quinche
social worker
Community Outreach
prevention program Team
intervention program team
Miguel Cuascota
Program Director
Luis Basantes
Psychologist
Amada Escobar
Clinical Psychologist
Estefania Lopez
Family Facilitator
Patricia Chacon
Social Worker
Evelyn Elizalde
Social Worker
Carolina Iguago
Family Facilitator
Forever Flowers
Esther Moreira
Juan Carlos Peringueza
Blanca Maldonado
BOARD OF DIRECTORS, STAFF, AND VOLUNTEERS
As we are a U.S. non-profit organization, our Board Members, Staff, and Volunteers are listed below so you can get to know each person that is a part of our team.
Joel Delp
Executive director
Esther Moreira
International Relations
Adam Fassel
vice president
NOLA DICKINSON
ASSISTANT WEB DESIGNER
Kim DELP
Medical Director
MegHan Loser
Board Member
Tara Euler
Director of donor appreciation
Kristi Lundblad
Medical advisor
SABRINA PRICE
Secretary
Richard Euler
Treasurer
Janae Stevens
Donation Receptionist
Natasha Westerhaud
Director of Canadian Outreach
Dan TEEFEY
PRESIDENT
Angie Eberhard
Bookkeeper
Kaleigh ANDERSON
DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR
Home for at risk children
There are four phrases that best describe the homes for at risk children:
well supported, high quality care, community focused and long-term sustainable.
OUR U.S ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS are ONLY 10%.
+ Well Supported
The homes will be well supported in that there will be a local Covenant congregation that partners with and ministers to each home. This church will view the home as one of its ministries and the house parents and children who live in the home will be a part of that congregation. In addition to the one local congregation, there will also be a surrounding district of Covenant churches that will be there to support the home and its ministries. Finally, the homes will be a part of project administered by F.A.C.E. and will have all of the support and expertise that F.A.C.E. provides, as well as the support of the I.P.E.E. denomination.
+ Community Focused
Each home will not only be internally focused in caring for the children, they will also be externally focused in the community around it. This is because the goal of the home is that each child be reunited with his or her family, which follows international standards adopted by UNICEF in following the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2009. Now, in some situations of extreme abuse and misconduct, reunification with the child’s biological parents may not always be possible and be in the best interests of the child, but the goal is that the child be reunified with some family members that will love the child as their own. Each child will be legally court appointed to move to the home, and also to be returned to the family; thus the need for a lawyer, psychologist and social worker. These professionals will be serving not only the children in the home, but also their families, as the goal is reunification. In the same way, the partner church will be ministering to the home and their families as well as the broader community. The idea is that the home not only cares for the children inside of it but also the families and community around it.
+ High Quality Care
The homes will be able to offer a high level of care for the children in that the focus of the home is on quality and not quantity. The idea here is not to collect as many children as possible. Rather, the homes will provide care for up to 8 children. The homes will have a set of house parents that live in the homes with the children as their “foster parents,” as well at least two more additional workers that will provide everyday care. In addition to those who are taking care of the children day-in and day-out, the homes will also have the services of a social worker, a psychologist and lawyer.
+ Long-Term Sustainable
The homes are not a short-term project, established only to serve for a small period of time. Rather, the goal is that the homes be created and minister over the long haul. This is why each home will have a partner, local congregation as well as a supporting district of Covenant churches and the national Covenant denomination (I.P.E.E.). In addition to this ministerial support structure, the homes need to have a financial support structure. The Santiago Partnership will provide this initially, but the goal is that the homes will be one day be 100% self-sustainable. The idea is that micro-enterprises can be created in the homes that will generate revenue which will cover their expenses.
Medical Clinic
THE MEDICAL CLINIC IS A MINISTRY OF the LOCAL COVENANT CONGREGATION, Iglesia emanuel, which SEEs it AS A WAY TO REACH OUT AND HELP THE PEOPLE IN THE AREA. in this way, it is an OUTREACH MINISTRY OF THE LOCAL CHURCH. THERE has been a four STEP PROCESS THAT THE CLINIC has been FOLLOWing AS it SERVes THE MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED in the area AND has GROWn IN THE SCOPE OF its MINISTRY.
THE CURRENT SERVICES OF THE MEDICAL CLINIC INCLUDE FAMILY AND GENERAL MEDICINE, DENTISTRY, OBSTETRICS, PEDIATRICS, GYNECOLOGY, LABORATORY, ORTHOPEDICS/TRAUMATOLOGY, ORAL SURGERY, PHYSICAL THERAPY, VASCULAR SURGERY, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, AND A PHARMACY.
OUR U.S ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS are ONLY 10%.
Step 1
The initial step was to begin serving the children in the local Compassion International center that is a ministry of the local church, Iglesia Emanuel. This was met soon after the project started in 2014. At that time, there were around 500 children to serve with sick visits and checkups.
Step 2
The clinic was officially opened to the public in April of 2015 after serving for about a year with the children in the Compassion international center. When the clinic was officially opened, it began serving the greater community of Juan Montalvo and Cayambe. Since its opening in 2015, the number of patients seen per year has tripled. In 2017, over 3,000 patients were seen and cared for.
Step 3
Our third step was to serve the broader community with less access to medical care through medical caravans. Although the thought for step 3 was after the clinic had been open for a while, it ended up happening almost simultaneously with the opening of the clinic. The goal at this point is to continue to develop educational programs for the surrounding communities and to continue the medical caravans to areas with little or no access to quality healthcare.
Step 4
Our final step for the medical clinic is to become a clinic of specialties. We’d like to serve the broader community even better through specialists like pediatrics, traumatologists, gynecologists, cardiologists, etc, so we can serve the greater community even better.
MEDICAL CARAVAN
We believe that patients coming to the clinic is important. However, we think it equally as important to reach out to surrounding communities, further in to the mountain and indigenous communities as well as other parts of Ecuador.
The medical caravans provided by the clinic are mobile and go out to serve those who otherwise couldn’t come to the clinic. These caravans provide a visit to the dentist or medical provider for $5, mobile laboratory services, pharmacy (all patients receive vitamins and anti-parasitic medicines), nursing attention and educational services. These caravans are done in collaboration and partnership with Ecuadorian physicians, U.S. and Canadian providers and many others.
The goal of these caravans is to be the hands of feet of Jesus. It is not just to talk about helping and serving, but to actually serve, serve those who are underserved and underprivileged with minimal to no access to healthcare.
