Training workshops have turned out to be a great way to serve ministries and churches by encouraging and training their children’s ministry leaders with fresh ideas for teaching the children they serve. Here are a few pictures from a training we did with representatives from at least two nearby churches. In the workshops we cover …
Workshops: Encouraging, training, and equipping kids’ ministries
The Power of the Holy Spirit Church is located in the older part of Chichicastenango–an area of town known for it’s cantinas. While this church is located in a part of town where those who drank too much at the cantina can be found passed out along the sidewalk, this church has a vision to …
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Helping youth find practical education for their future
For many young people in Guatemala, finding good work can be a challenge. Some leave their homeland and travel to find work in the USA or other places. Some get education but still struggle to find work. Some get low paying jobs that help them just get by. Still others develop themselves and start new …
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Equipping and encouraging teachers
As part of an ongoing effort to encourage and help teachers in the local school district, we teamed up with another missionary to provide a teaching about the importance of teaching values and a workshop on techniques for teaching math. About 50 teachers attended in two groups–1st grade and 6th grade. These teachers represented schools …
Teaching distance Bible courses with ASELSI
In July, Michael finished teaching a Bible class on the Christian Family with the Guatemalan Bible institute at ASELSI. Now he’s co-teaching an online class with a pastor friend. The class is on the Holy Spirit and has students from Mexico, Venezuela and Guatemala. Pray for these students and for Michael as they explore Scripture …
Delivering Adventures in the Bible to Pastors
I’d last spoken with pastor Eliseo when I was at his church teaching a workshop for new children’s ministry workers a few weeks ago, so I wasn’t expecting his call when the phone rang that morning. Eliseo told me he needed 10 sets of our children’s ministry books for the pastors who are visiting his …
Celebrating Bible school graduations
About three hours from Chichicastenango is a small town called Chicaman. On the outskirts of Chicaman, up a gravel road a flat area has been carved out of the hill and a covered soccer field with fake grass welcomes some unlikely teams from the area. For the past two years, teams of students have been …
Equipping Guatemalan missionaries and churches
Did you know that Guatemalan believers are following the Great Commission and going to the nations? Yes! They are. And we delivered 600 copies of our Adventures in the Bible minibooks to an agency that is focusing on developing Guatemalan missions. Hudson and Michael delivered the books to the director of the Guatemalan Missions Agency …
Training teachers to disciple kids
In the neighborhood of Chulumal III sits a church building where the Gethsemane Methodist Church meets. It is nearly surrounded by a grassy yard that is often trampled by the feet of kids and adults who come to learn, share, and grow together. In January, Michael lead a group of about 16 church leaders in …
Encouraging leaders at a local church.
Michael taught a class on the importance of vision and working together at a meeting of the 2022 teachers for IgleKids (Kids Church) at Iglesia Algo Nuevo, Chichicastenango. I love the heart these teachers have for kids!
