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LehnertM1980
Joined 2010
Posts: 8

Need a church in Quito

13 years ago

I am moving to Quito shortly and need to get plugged into a church when I am there. A little background info, there is both spiritual and practical angle for this question:

I am not going to be able to work and am going to be very far out of my comfort zone that it's probably a good idea to think about getting pluggede into a church and community of support. Also, I would be very interested in donating my time to help others (children, families in need, or whatever) since I won't be able to work legally yet, this seems like a great way to use my time.

The other reason is that I am moving to Ecuador to be married to my fiance, who is Ecuadorian. Friends of ours who got married there were not able to get married in a church because the church needed a long standing relationship with BOTH the bride and the groom. I **really** need to get married in a church, so if you have any advice it would be great.

In the US I am lutheran (a kind of christianity) though the catholic religion is not VERY different, and my husband was raised catholic, so a catholic church would be ok, I think. (Since it is the only kind of church I ever found in Ecuador.)

However, if anyone knows of a lutheran or protestant church in Quito, it would be great. If anyone knows of an English-speaking pastor or preist it would be even better. (I know, of course, that mass will always be in Spanish, but finding a pastor/preist to marry us in English would be ideal.)

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