Yesterday was another full day in which we worked hard on various projects, encountered challenges, and grew in love in our relationships with one another. We were able to have lunch with the Highschoolers yesterday and today, and spending time with them is always full of laughs, and has become one of the most looked-forward-to […]
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Update #3 Yesterday was a long and rewarding day for our team. We spent the morning and afternoon on our projects, which have included some game time with the elementary kids “teaching” them how to play checkers. I think we may have done more losing than teaching, though. J Several from the group were […]
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Another great day in San Pedro! Yesterday was full of highs for many of our team members as we continued working at the school on our big and individual projects. One of the biggest highlights for everyone, by far, was the time we spent with the high schoolers yesterday evening. At seven o’clock, we met […]
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We made it safely by plane, bus and boat all the way to San Pedro and got started working right away after our arrival Saturday. We were taken out to the “highway” that comes into San Pedro and spent the afternoon in a community service project of cleaning away overgrown plants and bags upon bags […]
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Friday morning we had breakfast and devotions. After breakfast we finished up what we could on the projects everyone had been working on. The highlight of Friday was a traditional rice tamale dinner with the teachers. They also sang to us one song was “God will make a way”, it touched us so because God has made […]
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Hola, Started out with breakfast and devotions. In the kitchen we cut up 25 gallons of beautiful strawberries to be used for strawberry shortcake and parfaits. Gary, Carrie, Max and Jorge are still working on Pam’s house. Landen made checkers from scratch sanded and painted them and then tested them out with the kids. Had […]
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Hola, Today (Wednesday) we worked around the school on various projects. Some are working on the house Pam will be living in and some worked in the kitchen. Chad worked in the computer room solo rewiring all the cords so they are not in the way and look orderly. Hannah is doing some drawings that […]
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Monday morning we had praise worship with the elementary age children. It was so wonderful to see little children praise the Lord with open arms! In the afternoon we joined with the junior high kids as they had bible study. We met with Pastor Emilio that night and he taught us about the Mayan culture. We […]
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Hola from San Pedro! We arrived safe and sound and are so thankful we are all here. We are meeting many new friends and getting reacquainted with old ones.We are feeling so welcomed by everyone. We have done a few projects at the school, painted two classrooms in one day and even put all the […]
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Day #10 Sunday started very early for us. We had a long day Saturday traveling by boat, then bus to Guatemala city. We got to bed late and had to leave for the airport by 6am Sunday. Many of us were sharing bathing facilities so we had to kind of juggle and plan ahead so […]
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