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 …
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 …
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 …
Hot off the presses!
We are putting the principles from God’s Word in the hands and hearts of children and churches with the new Bible story booklet we published this year. Just before Christmas, we picked up the first 2,000 copies of our Bible lesson book 16 Adventures in the Bible in Guatemala City and started distributing them. After …
Teaching money management
Money isn’t easy to come by in Lemoa–a small farming community about 20 minutes down the road from Chichicastenango in the mountains of Guatemala–for that matter neither are stable jobs or education (if you want to study anything past the sixth grade). Yet, in this village one church is training a team of young adults …
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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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 …
Mission: Cuba
For months, we’ve been training a group of Guatemalans to think about missions as something they can do themselves…and to start doing it. In November Michael will be traveling with a team of six Guatemalans on a mission trip to Cuba (Pictured above is the team minus one). Plans for Cuba include teaching at a …
Not Just Us: A Mission for All
Earlier this year, Michael met with a group from another ministry talking about training locals to be missionaries and to reach out to their neighbors, regions, and to go outside Guatemala. Out of that meeting came other meetings, connections, and new relationships that have blossomed into a partnership between ASELSI and Adventures in Missions–two ministries …
