I was recently talking with some of my friends in Guatemala about how Spanish speakers are all over the world. They responded something like, “We are everywhere!” It’s true. Spanish speakers can be found all over the world and they tend to build communities wherever they go. In those communities across Latin American and other …
Discipling new leaders
Since 2013 we’ve been teaching God’s Word to the neighborhood children who come to play with our own kids. Playtime soon turned into the Bible study The Little Disciples. While the kids who were 5, 6, 7, or 8 when we started now are in their teens, some of them still come to the Bible …
Sharing His stories
Since we posted the Adventures in the Bible book as a resource on our website back in April, more than 4,320 stories have been downloaded to help teach kids God’s Word in 22 countries. We’ve distributed over 1,500 physical copies of the kids book and we’re working on printing new versions so we can use …
Adventures in the Bible now available online
Over 120 Bible stories in Spanish with coloring pictures and questions for each story ready for your children’s ministry. Las Aventuras en La Biblia are field-tested in Guatemala and now in a book on Amazon.com, but you can search for the story or even the map you want and print all you need for free …
Filling the distances
We continue reaching out in our neighborhood through the Little Disciples Bible Study. Even with required social distancing, we keep looking for ways to fill those distances with real relationship that points to Jesus. That includes teaching Bible principles and sometimes that means visiting our students and their families in their homes, praying for one …
Teaching the Old Testament
Michael is teaching a class on the Old Testament with both in-person classes and an online segment as we continue finding ways to reach out and build up leaders with Bible training during COVID-19 restrictions. There are 15 students in Michael’s class with about 35 others studying with ASELSI in various levels of the Bible …
Ten Years in Guatemala
It was January 28, 2011, when Chrisi and I walked out of the airport in Guatemala City and started our new life and ministry here in the mountains of Central America. These 10 years have been amazing. After language school, we moved to Chichicastenango where our ministry has been based since 2011. Over the past …
Storms swept away homes and, for some, their hope.
When two hurricanes passed Guatemala one after another in November, they left floods that swept away homes, crops and hope. Families in hard-hit regions lost more than homes and crops to the floodwaters. Some lost their livelihoods. Others lost hope. When two storms ruined homes, some lost hope, others reached out. On the outskirts of Aguacatan in the …
Hot off the presses!
We are putting the principles from God’s Word in the hands and hearts of children and churches with the new Bible story booklet we published this year. Just before Christmas, we picked up the first 2,000 copies of our Bible lesson book 16 Adventures in the Bible in Guatemala City and started distributing them. After …
Teaching money management
Money isn’t easy to come by in Lemoa–a small farming community about 20 minutes down the road from Chichicastenango in the mountains of Guatemala–for that matter neither are stable jobs or education (if you want to study anything past the sixth grade). Yet, in this village one church is training a team of young adults …
