At the ASELSI Milk Program, Chrisi works with many very malnourished babies and children every week. At the clinic, we help provide these young ones with formula or milk, vitamin fortified health drinks, cereals and a months supply of vitamins. We measure and weigh these children every month as well as assess them for any …
Milk Program: Gaining Weight, Beating Statistics
Guatemala has one of the highest infant mortality rates in all of the Western hemisphere. Here’s an example of one little guy who is beating those statistics. In the ASELSI Milk Program where Chrisi serves every week, we see many very malnourished babies and children. One story we would like to share is of an …
Milk Program: a desparate fight
We have a little boy named Rogelio Peliz in the ASELSI Milk program. He is 1 year and 8 months old and only weighs 14 pounds and a quarter. He has been in the 14 pound range now for 4 months. Despite our constant attempts to educate his mom on how many ounces of milk/vitamin …
Surgery Ward Salvations
Five salvations during a hospital visit! We recently visited the national hospital located about 45 minutes away from where we live. We were with a team from Columbia, Missouri. In the men’s surgery ward alone, four people accepted Christ and one rededicated his life to the Lord! One of the guys who accepted Christ was …
Aleyda: a baby lost
I (Chrisi) had the opportunity to meet a young single mom a few weeks ago who had just lost her 8 month old baby girl to malnutrition and sickness. Beatriz arrived at ASLESI with her daughter Aleyda a few months ago and was admitted into the ASELSI Milk Program. Baby Aleyda was 6 months old …
Visiting a Widow
Petronila is about 76. Four of her five children have abandoned her in a leaky house with adobe walls that are starting to crack. She is a Mayan and still believes in the Mayan gods. When we visited her, we took a basket of food and household items for which she was very grateful. One …
Juan and a Change of Heart
BAREFOOT AND SAD Juan* grew up outside of Chichicastenango. His parents owned several milk cows and goats. As a boy Juan’s job along with his five brothers and two sisters was to milk the cows, sell the milk to neighbors and scavenge enough food for the cattle to fill their bellies for the night. Each …
Building a School for Special Needs
A team of 21 hard workers from Be The Change Volunteers joined ASELSI to help open the Jesus’ Little Lambs School for special needs students on the outskirts of Chichicastenango, Guatemala. I had the privilege of coordinating the team from the Guatemalan side of things and getting to see so many projects completed while the …
New Steps for Rosa
Rosa is 11 years old but she’s never been to school. Her father, Carlos, is a former drunk who accepted Christ and has turned his life over to following Christ as he works odd jobs to provide for his family of 7 children. Carlos and his wife, Juana, have another baby on the way. Besides …
Conference 2012
ASELSI‘s annual Leadership Conference was a rousing success. Over 400 pastors and church leaders from five different countries (mainly alumni of ASELSI’s Bible training programs) were part of this two-day event that focused on preparing attendees for spiritual warfare. ASELSI founder John Harvey emphasized that Christians are in a spiritual battle and not only recognizing …
