Robin and 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 rain forest. The school started as a ministry of a local Christian church, and now is an independent entity that partners with a few churches in the region. Robin and Wendy have been administering the school since 2006. The school serves 440 students from preschool to 12th grade and offers parent education. One of our emphases is in teaching English as a foreign language and we enjoy having short-term volunteers from the U.S. come and help with this area. The school has outgrown its original church space, so its pre-school rents space, the middle school uses the original church facilities, and the high school has moved to a newly acquired beautiful 20-acre piece of land 10 minutes out of town. We are currently raising funds for developing that campus.