Ecuador Outreach

One of several international outreach ministries that have personal connections to Good Shepherd is in Ecuador with the Servant Sisters of the Home of the Mother, a religious order of Catholic Sisters. 

Sister Annemarie Naiman, a Servant Sister, was raised in Good Shepherd Parish, and has been serving our brothers and sisters in Christ in Ecuador for five years. Her religious order has been ministering to the youth and the poor in Ecuador since 2006.

In the town of Playa Prieta, their missions include running and staffing the Holy Family Education Center for 460 studens, preK through 12 th grade,and providing religious instruction to a neighboring school, as well as providing food, medicines, toiletry needs and spiritual support to the poor.

In the city of Chone, the Sisters own and staff a farm that provides pigs, cattle and chicken to supply soup kitchen to  the poor, as well as themselves. The farm provides employment to the Ecuadorian farmers who staff the farm. At the parish, they have built a large multipurpose building to provide space for new soup kitchens, religious education, youth activities and space for international medical teams that visit the area. They too provide monthly food baskets to the poor, scholarships for children to attend school as well as university scholarships.

In the very large city of Guayaquil, in addition to the four soup kitchens that feeds 500 children daily, they provide Saturday religious instruction, food, games and study skills to children from the severely impoverished neighborhoods. They also provide catechesis,  monthly food baskets and scholarships for children and university students.

The 4^th and newest convent was opened in Oct. 2022 at the request of the Archbishop of the Diocese of Portoviejo. The purpose was for the Sisters to begin catechesis for the cathedral parish’s children, provide ministry support for the development of youth groups, visits to the sick, Eucharistic Minister trainings, and to begin a campus ministry to the 32,000 college students at the Technical University of Manabi which had not had campus ministry present for 18 years. Sister Annemarie is currently assigned to this convent and ministries.

Thank you for your support!  We hope to update you soon on the Eucharistic Revival in Ecuador.