Since the children from our Little Disciples Bible Study can’t come to us, we are checking in on them and their families and delivering food supplies along with some children’s Bible lessons they can do on their own. We have found that some of these families are barely getting by with the food they can …
These COVID Times
Here in Guatemala, we’ve been on stay-at-home/curfew/restricted contact/quarantine or whatever you want to call it for more than two months now. Since mid-March, the infection count has gone from 1 to over 2,260 (which is actually pretty good compared to other places). Leaders here are trying hard to keep this from spreading faster than medical …
Tools for Kids Ministry
Actively writing, praying, dreaming, helping, and preparing — that’s what we’ve been doing when it comes to making good use of this “time-out” due to the COVID-19 virus. Besides helping a local ministry with online Bible classes and some limited distribution of food supplies that we’ve been doing, we have been using this time to …
Teaching The Life of Christ Online
When Jesus walked the roadways of Israel during the first century, the crowds that followed Him had no idea that His story would be shared on a network of internet connections nearly 2000 years later. Yet, that’s whats happening here in Guatemala.Due to the COVID-19 restrictions here in Guatemala, the ASELSI Bible institute that we …
Every Opportunity…
Corona Virus. COVID-19. Quarantine. Social distancing. CLOSED. CANCELED. These are challenging times, but we can face them without fear. We can stand with strength to not just make the best of things, but to make things better. Let us not be satisfied with getting back to normal, but to make a new tomorrow that’s more …
Empty Streets and COVID-19
Life has changed a lot here in Guatemala since the COVID-19 Corona Virus has spread across the globe, and we know it has changed for many others too. In Chichicastenango, where we live, there is normally a bustling market with tourists, vendors, and colorful handicrafts and vegetables. Not now. The tourists are gone, the market …
Catching up with Rosa
Remember Rosa?Rosa is a young lady we helped arrange surgery for a severely twisted foot. At the time she was 11 years old, but that was eight years ago when we first shared her story and a group of Kansas school children helped raise the funds for her surgery. When we recently visited her family …
The Art of Discipleship
Art brings people together they say. So…we used art to bring kids closer to Christ. For seven weeks in January and February, we had the opportunity to team up with Authenikos, an organization that sends art teams to Guatemala, and have been working with an intern artist who is teaching our DiscipleTec art class. We finished …
Reaching Cuba
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A New Revolution
God is turning things around for His kingdom in the island nation of Cuba. Michael and a team of six Guatemalan missionaries traveled hours to get from Guatemala to their destination in Santiago de Cuba including traversing almost the entire island in an overnight bus ride. Here’s how it went… After more than 30 hours …
