October 23rd 2011 And the shower is as completed as it will get before the team arrives but its ready to go and hot water is flowing. I will have plastering, painting, more tiles, and electrical work to do. That last two days we installed the last of the tile, grouted, and connected the electric [...]
October 1st, 2011 we celebrated KIDS DAY… what’s that you say!? Well, like Mother’s Day or Father’s Day, here in Guatemala, and other countries around the world, they also have Kid’s Day. It’s a day to honor the children in Guatemala. Dan and I had the pleasure of celebrating with the children from our street. [...]
Help support us this holiday season by purchasing a 2012 calendar filled with lots of pictures from the past year in Guatemala. Funds are going to help us finish renovating our home with a kitchen and living room. Cost is $75 for the first two and $65 each after the third. They make wonderful holiday [...]
Tonight Dan taught Albert how to fry eggs. Albert is a 12 year old orphan who lives on our street. We went outside to round up some kids for soccer. It was rainy and cold, and there was Albert wondering the street. Dan invited him in for some food, and taught him how to make [...]
On September 14th, people from all over the country begin a marathon to go another part of the country to get the light for the Independence Torch in their communities. There are many places that have a torch where other people from other towns can light their torch to bring back to their own communities. The [...]
Since I come to live in Guatemala I have taken up a lot of what I call hobbies. My hobbies include but are not limited to carpentry, electrical, cementing, video making, plumbing, etc.
We have been playing soccer in our gym for months now but it has slowly been falling apart. The floor was in bad shape and it was just getting worse. In Febuary of 2011, a local university (Colegio Vida) was looking to do a community project in which they looked at 7 different community projects including [...]
The Villa Nueva, Guatemala Walk For G.O.D. (Guatemalan Orphan Destiny) took place on May 20th 2011. Many churches and schools in the area walked the streets to help raise money for Casa de Alabbanza & Casa Esperanza Children’s Home. They walked from the Plaza of Villa Nueva to the New Market. http://www.flickr.com/photos/27120892@N04/sets/72157626642494405/show
We are spending 3 days at another mission in Guatemala named Eagle’s Nest. It gets its name because of its location is high up in the mountains on the edge of a cliff overlooking the city of Panajachel & Lake Atitlan. Its been so foggy so I haven’t been able to get any really good [...]
We spend 7 days in Coban ministering in schools and on our last day we visited Grutas del Rey Marcos and hiked through some caves. It was very amazing experience. La Roca – A Drama
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