While students can’t attend classes in-person right now in Guatemala, we continue teaming up with the Guatemalan ministry of ASELSI to continue teaching about Jesus. This month, Michael has been co-teaching the Life of Christ I class in an online format that has students from Guatemala, Mexico and Venezuela. The four-week class has a live …
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 …
Mixed Signals
Guatemala continues moving forward through the COVID-19 challenges that began here in mid-March. Restrictions with nightly curfews (9 p.m. – 4 a.m.) are in place and every municipality has it’s own color-coded level of restrictions. This pathwork of differences across Guatemala make things not always clear whether things are getting better or worse when it …
Delivering Food for Families
Teaming up with local churches here in Guatemala, we have been making deliveries of the more than 9,000 pounds of beans, corn, rice, noodles, salt and other food items to help families that have been out of work and in need especially due to the difficult time of the COVID-19 restrictions.Check out the video below …
Helping the Church Take Action during COVID-19
Knock! Knock! Knock! That’s a pretty regular sound we hear these days as people come to our door to sell us things or asking for a job so they can buy a few pounds of corn, basic food items, or medicine that their family needs. We try to help as we can. We realize that many …
Delivering Food and Care during COVID-19
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 …
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 …
