After nine months of closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Little Disciples Bible study has re-opened! We are glad to see many of those children who were here before returning and new students joining us as well. Back in mid-March, businesses, ministries and schools were forced to close across Guatemala as the nation went …
The adventures continue
We are moving forward with the Adventures in the Bible book project that we designed and wrote to help churches and ministries disciple children. The book consists of coloring pages and stories from the Bible along with, interactive questions and lessons to help the readers learn and apply God’s word in their hearts and lives. …
Willing learners
A rural church is leading classes and workshops to train rural teens for a better future. On the outskirts of the town of Lemoa, a dusty gravel road leads to a tidy little church building where a group of 11 students are being discipled in God’s word and taught practical skills that are designed to …
Online courses keep Bible classes running
In what normally would be in-person classes, Michael is video teaching the second part of the Life and Ministry of Christ class with ASELSI — the local ministry we’ve been working with for nearly nine years. There are 16 students in this 12-week class for first-year students studying in ASELSI’s Bible classes. More students are …
Update on the Adventures Book
In the longer-than-we-thought-it-would-be-but-worth-it editing process for the children’s curriculum and resource book we are writing, we got our 10 prototypes back from the printer and out to key people who are editing or giving feedback.
Training the local church with communication tools for today’s world.
In July a group of youth leaders from a nearby church asked us if we would help train them on using technology and communications tools and skills for the church.With some basic training on video editing and design tools, they are off to a great start. Now we are working on project planning to help with …
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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 …
