Mid-Year Update

This year’s Mother’s Day party was quite a celebration. God gave us a perfect sunny day to be outdoors. The ladies sang, prayed, ate, played games and listened to a great message about mothers in the Bible. We also celebrated the birthdays for the month of May. It was a joyful day filled with fun…

August found us celebrating Lisa’s milestone birthday. The best gift of all was longtime friend, Lynn Sperry, from Gilbert, Az., who came to celebrate it with us. She joined in the parties given by the Lady’s  and Children’s Bible Studies and the Señorita Group the days prior to Lisa’s birthday and a special luncheon in…

Along with celebrating the children’s Bible Study teacher’s birthday, “Hermana Gloria” is also completing 13 years volunteering in this ministry.  We recognized her for demonstrating the character qualities of ALERTNESS and TOLERANCE. She has been extremely alert, taking very good care of these little ones. She has tolerated their different levels of maturity with ages…

In July, Amy, Conner and Sophie May spent an action-packed week here with us. Parents, Phil & Amy May, along with their two sons, Jackson and Conner, have served this ministry on teams in previous years, but this was Sophie’s first “Heritage Trip”. Sophie, now eleven, was born in Guatemala and adopted as an infant….

We celebrated the first of various end-of-the-year Christmas parties. Thirteen boys and their fearless leader, Nery, gathered together to study the Bible, eat hot dogs and play games. Art presented them with a new team soccer ball. They lost no time in breaking it in on the mini soccer field we made in 1998 for…

The children’s Bible Study had a blast with visitors from New Hampshire, Bob & Marla. A scientist and social worker by trade, they love coming to Guatemala to make the children laugh! And laugh they did! With their trunk full of puppets, what a team they made. As crazy as they were with the kids,…