Here in Guatemala “Silent Night” and nice poems about the night before Christmas when “no one was stirring” do not fit with the Christmas culture around us. Here, many families stay up late making traditional tamales and then blasting the midnight sky with fireworks in displays that would fit right in with many fourth of …
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 …
The Art of Discipleship
Art brings people together they say. So…we used art to bring kids closer to Christ. For seven weeks in January and February, we had the opportunity to team up with Authenikos, an organization that sends art teams to Guatemala, and have been working with an intern artist who is teaching our DiscipleTec art class. We finished …
Pocohil I: Children’s Service
For the second year, a church out in the mountains overlooking Chichicastenango invited us to come and preach at the closing service for their Vacation Bible School (School summer break is from Oct.-Jan. here in Guatemala.) We came prepared. Chrisi led active praise songs with actions and Michael led a attention-grabbing game before launching into …
Lights, Cameras, Connect
In September, we teamed up with two other ministries to equip local churches and organizations with training that was outside the box and inside a camera. Michael coordinated the plan for two trainers — one from Ecuador and another from the U.S. They were from I-TEC, a U.S. and Ecuador-based ministries that focus on …
Building, Caring, & Sharing with Faith
A team from Faith Church in Kansas spent a little over a week of their summer to build, share and care for the people of Guatemala. They built a play structure for kids at the Little Disciples Bible Study and a beautiful house for Anastasia, a single mom of two, in the village of Quijel. …
Games for Kids Ministry
Keeping the attention of children is often a challenge. There is so much energy bottled up in a kid that it may seem a bit like a nuclear power plant…the energy seems endless and if it’s not handled right it can cause an “explosion” of chaos. That doesn’t mean that one must use heavy handed …
Our 2019 visit to the USA!
8 May — Heading to the USA 12 May — Community Christian Church, Fort Scott, KS, 9 a.m. & 11 a.m. we’ll be sharing during the 10:10 a.m. Sunday School hour 14 May — Travel to Michigan 18 May — Join us at Frog Hollowin Wyoming, MI! 3-6 p.m. An informal get together while the …
She felt like she couldn’t go on…
Chichicastenango–When her family walked out on her, they literally took the house with them and left her alone with her three kids. On that day, Sara (not her real name) lost her sister and her family, her mom, her bed, and even the tin roof that had kept the rain off her at night. That …
Reaching Kids:
A Swing and …oops…a Hit At the end of last year we had a request from a local school. They asked if they can come use our yard, swings, and play area for the elementary school kids during their morning break. For the past four years we’ve had a good relationship with them and we’ve …