A team from Radiant Church in Richland, MI, came to help us train leaders, share Christ with kids at a local elementary school and church and get some painting done too! The team activities included: Seeing our own children interact with this team was a joy to us as they helped translate, played and enjoyed …
Raising God-following families
Michael had the opportunity to share principles for building strong families when he was invited to speak at the ASELSI Conference. We love that Guatemalans see the difference that a godly foundation makes for a family. Pray with us that parents will have wisdom and godly understanding on how to train up their children in …
Families on a mission
We enjoyed the heart, vision and desire to serve that we found in the Sizemore and Quizenas families who came on a short-term mission trip with us. These families spent time with a nearby children’s home and helped us with kids and youth ministry, taught about dental care and helped with some painting projects. It …
Training Children’s Ministers
Training workshops have turned out to be a great way to serve ministries and churches by encouraging and training their children’s ministry leaders with fresh ideas for teaching the children they serve. Here are a few pictures from a training we did with representatives from at least two nearby churches. In the workshops we cover …
Equipping little ones to share with their families
Even a child can teach their family about Jesus. We have distributed thousands of copies of the Bible resources that we wrote to help children understand that the Bible stories mean something that is real for our lives. We want to help ministries disciple children to follow Jesus. We also want to equip ministries and …
Bible values for elementary students
Values with a strong foundation of faith are values that endure. We are excited to partner with a rural church that is just outside of the town center to help take Bible-based values to a local elementary school. Guatemalan pastor Juan Peliz and his wife Evelyn have hearts to reach their neighbors with Christ. For …
Discovering Jesus together
We are discovering more about Jesus and Jesus’ followers through New Testament stories. With our Thursday group of pre-teens and teens, we’ve been reading through the The Action Bible New Testament with each person getting a chance to read some of the story. This allows those who want to read a chance to practice in …
Learning with others and from others
When we found out about a seminar for children’s ministry here in Guatemala, we are excited to see that other ministries are training up children’s ministry leaders too! Michael took four children’s ministry volunteers from a church here in Chichicastenango to learn at the 4-day seminar. The seminar was about held about 2 hours away …
Manualidad: La Resurrección
Celebramos la resurrección de Jesucristo con este manualidad demonstrando la resurrección de Jesús de la muerte y la tumba vacia. Encuentra la historia aquí descargar la manualidad aquí.
Games: Hula hoops
Here are a variety of games that use hula hoops.
