Robin & Wendy Gutierrez

Robin and Wendy Gutierrez serve as administrators at Emanuel Christian School (Unidad Educativa Particular Emanuel) in Macas, Ecuador, in a relatively poor area on the edge of the Amazon rainforest. The school started as a ministry of a local Christian church and is now a nonprofit organization that partners with the local Alliance church plant. Robin and Wendy have been administering the school since 2006. The school serves 470 students from preschool to 12th grade and offers parent education. One of our emphases is teaching English as a foreign language, and we enjoy having short-term volunteers from the U.S. come and help in this area. The school has outgrown its original space in town, so its preschool and middle school rent spaces, and the junior high and high school have moved to a beautiful 20-acre piece of land 10 minutes out of town. We are currently raising funds to develop that campus.