Strengthen the platform in a rural town
Disciple believers, teach Scripture, and develop local leadership in the rural town. Help the congregation become a self-sustaining base for regional church planting.
Where We Serve
Southeastern Ecuador
A local church. A regional vision. Communities still to reach.
In Nangaritza County, where the Andes meet the Amazon, missionaries and local believers are working toward healthy, reproducing churches across a remote region.
- Regional platform
- A rural town
- Field reach
- Nangaritza County
- People
- Mestizo, Shuar & Saraguro
- Ministry
- Discipleship & pioneer church planting
The field
From a rural town to the communities beyond.
Nangaritza County lies in southeastern Ecuador, where the foothills of the Andes transition into the Amazon rainforest. Communities are spread across the region, with some reached by rough roads and others by motorized canoe.
A gospel-proclaiming church has been established in a rural town. The work now is to strengthen that congregation, equip local leaders, and partner together to reach the surrounding communities.
Our strategy
Strengthen the church. Build the network. Reach the remote.
The Nangaritza strategy connects platform, network, and remote churches so new congregations can grow within a community of support.
Develop relationships in network towns
Build connections in larger communities that serve the surrounding villages. Partner with local believers in evangelism, discipleship, and the development of future churches.
Take the gospel into remote communities
Work alongside national believers to engage the region’s smaller, isolated communities. Build trust, nurture disciples, and work toward churches that are locally led, supported, and reproducing.
Our shared framework
Relationships shape the work.
The eight phases of pioneer church planting help teams discern how to serve, build trust, share the gospel, and nurture believers toward maturity and local leadership.
How We Do ItServe with us
Current field needs
Explore where your gifts could support the local church and the wider regional mission.
Church planting
Remote Pioneer Church Planting Missionary
You will work closely with national believers from the Platform Church to ensure church plants are culturally grounded and self-reproducing.
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Discipleship & training
Discipleship and Training Missionary
You will disciple individuals, train leaders and mobilize the congregation to support the planting of Network and Remote Churches throughout the more than 30 communities in this county.
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Youth & family
Missionary to Women and Children
Your focus as a Missionary to Women and Children will be to help strengthen this local church through intentional evangelism and discipleship of women, along with enlisting help from the local believers to build a robust, reproducible, gospel-focused ministry for children and youth as a ministry of the church.
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Join the work through prayer.
A maturing local church
Pray for faithful teaching, growing disciples, and qualified local leaders in a rural town.
Doors into the region
Ask God to open relationships across Nangaritza’s communities and guide the next steps of church planting.
More laborers
Pray for workers to join local believers in discipleship, ministry to women and children, and remote church planting.
From the field
Stories and the strategy behind them.
Field story
Light in the Darkness
Read the Nangaritza, Ecuador field update in Ekballo Fall 2025, beginning on page 38.
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Field updates
Ekballo · Fall 2025
Read the field reports from missionaries serving in complex places around the world.
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Strategy
A Regional Approach
Explore the platform, network, and remote approach that supports lasting church planting.
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Strategy
Phases in Pioneer Church Planting
Understand the relational framework that guides arrival, trust, gospel conversations, and the growth of the church.
Read the PDFField leadership
Serving together for the long term.
Learn more about the missionaries helping guide this regional work and the team serving alongside them.
David & Emily S.
Ecuador Field Director (David) & Field-Based Missionary (Emily)
Meet the missionariesTake your next step
Could Southeastern Ecuador be your next step?
Serve alongside local believers as the church grows in maturity and reaches toward communities where gospel access remains limited.
Considering longer-term service? Ask about an exploratory field visit to meet the team and understand the ministry. Visits typically range from one to six weeks, depending on your availability, time off work, and arrangements with the receiving team.