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Wyse died of cancer in N9ovember. One of his last wishes was that his wife and children would visit Ecuador, as he had less than a year before his death. | Wyse died of cancer in N9ovember. One of his last wishes was that his wife and children would visit Ecuador, as he had less than a year before his death. | ||
Daughter Kelsey Wyse, a junior at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va., is the first family member to fulfill her father's wish. | |||
She represented her family at the memorial service and building project, where grief and joy blended in worship. | |||
"I can still see this giant of a guy in typical Andean dress, smiling down on the children as they danced around him and clung to his legs," said mark Boshart, who visited Ecuador with Curt Wyse in January 2004. Boshart and Wyse were cousins, friends and farming partners. | |||
The visit to Ecuador changed Wyse's life, Boshart said. | |||
"He fell in love with the people of Cebadas and realized that each of us can make an impact for good in the lives of others," Boshart said. "His story is about North Americans learning from their South American brothers and sisters." | |||
This year three fellowship teams of more than a dozen participants each worked on the new building. | |||
In February, a team arrived from Ohio. Two teams followed in March from Central Plains Mennonite Conference, which began the mission partnership in Ecuador with Mennonite Mission Network and the Colombian Mennonite Church in the late 1990s. | |||
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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2005 May 30 p. 1, 2
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By Lynda Hollinger-Janzen
Mennonite Mission Network
CEBADAS, Ecuador — On a brilliantly sunlit Andean mountainside in March, God's people remembered Curt Wyse, a hog farmer from Wayland, Iowa.
Dark heads bowed over red ponchos, and paler fists clenched with emotion in jeans pockets as Quichua Christians and North American Mennonites gathered on the freshly poured foundation of the new Ñukanchik Yachay school.
Wyse's life and eath helped the Quichua expand a dream of crating a positive school experience for their children. Part of the money that purchased the land for the school came from Wyse's memorial gifts.
Wyse died of cancer in N9ovember. One of his last wishes was that his wife and children would visit Ecuador, as he had less than a year before his death.
Daughter Kelsey Wyse, a junior at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va., is the first family member to fulfill her father's wish.
She represented her family at the memorial service and building project, where grief and joy blended in worship.
"I can still see this giant of a guy in typical Andean dress, smiling down on the children as they danced around him and clung to his legs," said mark Boshart, who visited Ecuador with Curt Wyse in January 2004. Boshart and Wyse were cousins, friends and farming partners.
The visit to Ecuador changed Wyse's life, Boshart said.
"He fell in love with the people of Cebadas and realized that each of us can make an impact for good in the lives of others," Boshart said. "His story is about North Americans learning from their South American brothers and sisters."
This year three fellowship teams of more than a dozen participants each worked on the new building.
In February, a team arrived from Ohio. Two teams followed in March from Central Plains Mennonite Conference, which began the mission partnership in Ecuador with Mennonite Mission Network and the Colombian Mennonite Church in the late 1990s.