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Food Delivery

Delivering Food for Families

July 29, 2020 //  by michael.shead

Teaming up with local churches here in Guatemala, we have been making deliveries of the more than 9,000 pounds of beans, corn, rice, noodles, salt and other food items to help families that have been out of work and in need especially due to the difficult time of the COVID-19 restrictions.Check out the video below …

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Empty Streets and COVID-19

March 23, 2020 //  by michael.shead

Life has changed a lot here in Guatemala since the COVID-19 Corona Virus has spread across the globe, and we know it has changed for many others too. In Chichicastenango, where we live, there is normally a bustling market with tourists, vendors, and colorful handicrafts and vegetables. Not now. The tourists are gone, the market …

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Giving Our Best Gift to Jesus

December 21, 2018 //  by michael.shead

  Since 2005, we’ve been connected with a Guatemalan ministry in one way or another. After moving to Guatemala in 2011, we started serving alongside the ministry of ASELSI. One of the biggest evangelistic events of the year is the annual Christmas Party. This year, we were invited to lead the children’s story time of …

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Responding to the Volcano Fuego: Delivering Hope

June 9, 2018 //  by michael.shead

Since the volcanic eruption that killed more than 100 people in Guatemala, people across the nation have been gathering supplies to help those who left everything to escape the deadly lava and ash. Before dawn on Friday a group of about 20 young people gathered inside a tin storage building in Chichicastenango and organized a …

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All Saints Day in Chichicastenango

November 1, 2016 //  by michael.shead

Today, I went up to the center of town and had the opportunity to observe and pray for the people who were celebrating  All Saints Day on Nov 1, 2016. Please pray for the people to know Christ and freedom from idolatry in their hearts and community. Here are some images and descriptions from the …

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A life lost, A new life found

January 12, 2016 //  by michael.shead

Yesterday was a day of contrasts. I left home at 4:30 a.m. to get to the Guatemalan capital in time to pickup up supplies, run errands, get a new pair of much needed tires and still make it back to Chichicastenango at a decent hour. With all the vehicles on the road these days, the …

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Homes for Christmas

December 30, 2014 //  by michael.shead

For Christmas we went home…not to the USA, but the homes of four Guatemalan families with whom we’ve become friends or have been building relationships for some time. As a family, we took a few gifts for the children, bags of food, and shared with them about the reason we celebrate Christmas and how Christ …

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Milk Program: Josefa, mother of nine

November 2, 2014 //  by michael.shead

Josefa is a mother of nine children, a grandmother of two, and a widow — all that and only 35 years old. About one year ago her husband began to have leg and stomach pain but they couldn’t go to the hospital because they didn’t have money for treatment nor did they realize how serious …

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Hiding God’s Word in Ears and Hearts

October 28, 2014 //  by michael.shead

  Here’s a story that comes from a fellow missionary that works among the Ixil language group. We received some Audio Bible devices that we passed along to them. Here’s how God used those materials to plant His word in the hearts of the people as they told me… Last summer we began working on trying …

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Milk Program: Jorge the survivor

September 15, 2014 //  by michael.shead

  God must have big plans for Jorge Morales. He is a tiny survivor. Jorge is a little boy who is 1 year and 3 months old. He is the youngest of eleven children and has a cleft lip and palate (that means he has a birth defect that left a hole in the roof …

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