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 …
Lighting up the night
One of the families in our neighborhood lost their electricity because they couldn’t keep up with the electric bill. They have been dropping by regularly to recharge their old cell phone so we thought we’d help them out. With a solar light kit we had on hand, Michael connected four bulbs that now light up …
Celebrating Independence
September 15 was the 200th anniversary of Guatemalan independence from Spain. While we are restricted from holding our Bible study, we still celebrated by giving out Guatemalan flags to the students who dropped off their homework sheets and gave them a new homework lesson that teaches about the best independence day of all…when Jesus died …
A much needed resource
I was recently talking with some of my friends in Guatemala about how Spanish speakers are all over the world. They responded something like, “We are everywhere!” It’s true. Spanish speakers can be found all over the world and they tend to build communities wherever they go. In those communities across Latin American and other …
Discipling new leaders
Since 2013 we’ve been teaching God’s Word to the neighborhood children who come to play with our own kids. Playtime soon turned into the Bible study The Little Disciples. While the kids who were 5, 6, 7, or 8 when we started now are in their teens, some of them still come to the Bible …
Sharing His stories
Since we posted the Adventures in the Bible book as a resource on our website back in April, more than 4,320 stories have been downloaded to help teach kids God’s Word in 22 countries. We’ve distributed over 1,500 physical copies of the kids book and we’re working on printing new versions so we can use …
Adventures in the Bible now available online
Over 120 Bible stories in Spanish with coloring pictures and questions for each story ready for your children’s ministry. Las Aventuras en La Biblia are field-tested in Guatemala and now in a book on Amazon.com, but you can search for the story or even the map you want and print all you need for free …
Filling the distances
We continue reaching out in our neighborhood through the Little Disciples Bible Study. Even with required social distancing, we keep looking for ways to fill those distances with real relationship that points to Jesus. That includes teaching Bible principles and sometimes that means visiting our students and their families in their homes, praying for one …
Teaching the Old Testament
Michael is teaching a class on the Old Testament with both in-person classes and an online segment as we continue finding ways to reach out and build up leaders with Bible training during COVID-19 restrictions. There are 15 students in Michael’s class with about 35 others studying with ASELSI in various levels of the Bible …
Ten Years in Guatemala
It was January 28, 2011, when Chrisi and I walked out of the airport in Guatemala City and started our new life and ministry here in the mountains of Central America. These 10 years have been amazing. After language school, we moved to Chichicastenango where our ministry has been based since 2011. Over the past …