Recently a young pastor from a rural church outside of Chichicastenango invited us to come and train their children’s ministry team. We love helping to encourage and share vision and ideas with these leaders who have hearts to disciple children. This particular church is the only evangelical church in their community. When I heard this, …
A place to come together and grow
A women’s group from a local church asked if they could meet at our minisitry site and we were glad to welcome them. We are pleased that this space that God provided can be used to serve children, churches and others as a place to grow! We pray that many will connect to Christ here.
The Adventures in the Bible make a difference
We’ve been hearing reports from churches and ministries about how our Adventures in the Bible are helping them disciple and teach God’s Word to children. Here are some of those comments:
Teaming up with others for leadership training and equipping
In August we had the opportunity to help the Guatemalan ministry of ASELSI with their annual leadership conference. We provided about 400 children’s books as a gift to each conference attendee as well as helping with translation during one of the workshops about leadership. We also were able to make the Adventures in the Bible …
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Life lessons from God’s Word
As we teach through the stories of the Old Testament, we try to make it fun for the kids to learn the life-changing lessons of God’s Word. Here, we were sharing principles from the story of Balaam and we made donkey hats with the elementary level children.
Wanted: A safer vehicle with space for all we do.
We like our little van, but there’s a problem: it just doesn’t have enough space for all we do. In the 11 years that we’ve had this hardworking little Mitsubishi van, it has served us well in many ways: Our 16-year-old van has a few issues like: no air conditioning (It’s not broken, it just …
Developing resources for training leaders in Ghana
A group of Guatemalans have answered God’s call to go to the nations to make disciples. We are very excited about them taking Bible study courses to the nation of Ghana on the African continent and we are excited to be part of this Kingdom work. We are helping a local Bible training center develop …
Discipling the youth in Chichicastenango
DiscipleTec is a weekly gathering for 9- to 14-year-olds to come together to learrn God’s Word and to have fun learning about science, technology and God’s Creation. Each Wednesday afternoon, we take time for these kids who come to hang out with us and learn together. Some of them have dropped out of school and …
Reaching hundreds of kids through local churches
We loved partnering with Waterfall of Your Presence Church in Chichicastenango for their inaugural kids program. We led worship dances and puppet skits as well as presenting the Gospel. The church is kicking off a 12 week discipleship class for kids from the surrounding neighborhoods. We also joined the Church of God in Chulumal 4 …
Womens Evangelistic Outreach
With the ladies from a local Women’s Bible study, Chrisi hosted a gathering of women to encourage them and share Christ with them. The women invited neighbors and friends to come for a snack, activities and to hear a message of hope. We love that our home can welcome many different groups to come and …
