Rick and Betty serve the Quichua Indians in Quito, Ecuador through Mission to the World. Their ministry focuses on leadership training, literature production, Bible translation, and church planting.After a two-year church-planting internship in Bogotá, Colombia, Rick was ordained as a pastor (teaching elder), and in 2015 the Aschmanns returned to Ecuador to begin a new work in church planting among the Quichua Indians. Rick has also been involved in two Bible translation projects in two of the Quichua languages of Ecuador to provide God’s Word in the heart language of the Quichua people.