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 …
Giving Our Best Gift to Jesus
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 …
Video: Helping Train Leaders in Mexico City
In May, Michael travelled to Mexico where he taught workshops at an ASELSI mini conference and helped with a graduation of 10 students who completed a two-year high school level of Bible training. It is exciting to see how these students are excited about sharing Christ with others. Click the image above to view the video.
Feeding hungry babies: Jose Manuel
Jose Manuel had a tough start at life. When he was born, Jose’s mother was sick. She had very high blood pressure and went into a coma during his birth. That was four months ago and she still is not awake. With no mother able to feed him, Jose’s aunt stepped in to help out …
ASELSI Christmas Party 2015
Every year hundreds of families who have been part of the ASELSI Clinic come back to ASELSI from their communities to be part of the Fiesta Navideña — the big Christmas Party. This year over 600 families came with some 1200 kids. With additional family members we estimate that we had over 2500 people at …
Milk Program: Little Walter
Please pray for a little boy in the ASELSI Milk Program named Walter Alejandro. He is 1 year and 1 month old and only weighs 11 pounds and 12 ounces. He drinks watered down milk and other oatmeal type drinks throughout the day because his mom is trying to stretch the powered milk that ASELSI …
Tomas and his rubber pants.
Tomas was born with legs that don’t work. His legs don’t work, but he does. Ever since he was strong enough to pull himself around on his arms, Tomas has been on the move. He learned to beg and earned enough to keep himself fed. Using a bicycle horn, he get’s peoples attention and pulls …
Milk Program stories: 2 years, 17 pounds
At the ASELSI Milk Program, Chrisi works with many very malnourished babies and children every week. At the clinic, we help provide these young ones with formula or milk, vitamin fortified health drinks, cereals and a months supply of vitamins. We measure and weigh these children every month as well as assess them for any …
Milk Program: Gaining Weight, Beating Statistics
Guatemala has one of the highest infant mortality rates in all of the Western hemisphere. Here’s an example of one little guy who is beating those statistics. In the ASELSI Milk Program where Chrisi serves every week, we see many very malnourished babies and children. One story we would like to share is of an …
Milk Program: a desparate fight
We have a little boy named Rogelio Peliz in the ASELSI Milk program. He is 1 year and 8 months old and only weighs 14 pounds and a quarter. He has been in the 14 pound range now for 4 months. Despite our constant attempts to educate his mom on how many ounces of milk/vitamin …