Home Visits

The things we take for granted…..like a high school education. That is something relatively few Guatemalan students achieve. Dayana grew up in our Children’s Bible Study and Señorita Group. Abandoned by her father, Art had the privilege of placing the class ring on her finger during the graduation ceremony. Thirty-one graduates, mostly Mayan Indian, made…

In June 2013, we traveled to Guastatoya, Guatemala to do a Character Presentation and Workshop for the management staff of a credit union on building trust and praising for character. Cooperativa Guyacán has been using the Character First character initiative for the last three years. They are a great group of people and we always…

In a Third World Country where most of the national hospital have no medicines, no food and quite frankly very little medical care, we recently took 11-year old David in for surgery with a private physician. He broke his arm over a year ago and has had two botched surgeries at the national hospital. His…

After a long period of time not being in the states together, we spent the month of March visiting family and friends in California, Arizona and Oklahoma. It seems like we went from event to event between attending a special Baby Shower, celebrating Art’s Birthday and attending Lisa’s sister’s 50th Wedding Anniversary and family reunion….

Our new Boy’s Club is still in the formation stage, but coming along with excitement.The boys meet bi-monthly and are under the leadership of hermano (bother) Nery. Art is mentoring Nery and Nery is mentoring the boys. The last couple of months, Nery has been teaching them about the importance of the character qualities of…

The ladies worked for days preparing to bless Arturo and Agusto for Father’s Day. Handmade decorations and homemade typical food accompanied by a hot corn drink that San Lucas is known for. Laughter, song, scripture, prayer, words of blessing and even tears filled the room. The children had prepared a special song and Father’s Day…