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A New Day (or better known as our longest day of most likely the year)
Friday, August 19, 2011 We arrive in Guatemala City to be picked up by a charter from deepStream. It's about an hour drive into the mountains to Magdalena. The landscape is filled with political signs for the upcoming election, pedestrian overpasses (as I remember having over the track for Formula 1 in Indianapolis) and many…
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~Back home in Indiana~
Hey all! I just wanted to let you all know that I'm back home safe in Indiana….however, it was difficult to leave my new friends and family back in Magdalena. It seemed that when I began to really get the contentment piece, that is when my trip ended. Although I was there for 5 weeks,…
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Magdalena-Week 3-4
Today is Tuesday….in one week from today, Kristen and Allen will be joining me here in Guatemala 🙂 And in exactly a week and half from today (next Friday), the three of us will be heading back to the states! Hard to believe I have been here for almost 4 weeks now. This past week,…
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Week 2 and a half-Guatemala
Sorry it's been a while exposed skin care since my last post! I was really sick last week….Down for the count on Thursday…no work, no play, nada! lots of rest and medicine. When I say sick, luckily, I don't mean sick with a parasite….I mean sick with a bad cough/chest congestion and a sinus infection.…
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Week 2 in Guatemala!
Hard to believe I am in my second week here already! The beginning part of this week was very difficult for me. I think that the newness of being here began to wear off, and I had a day or two of really missing home, feeling very alone. It was tough, but God is bringing…
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Magdalena-the end of week 1!
Buenas noches amigos…..como estas? Estoy muy bien aqui. Yesterday, I worked in the cooking school with the ladies…It really gave me an opportunity to get into relationship with the women in the school. They asked me a lot about myself….it's cool how much they want to know about me….They asked to see pictures of my…
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Magdalena Day #3-4-5!!
Yesterday and today have been very emotional/powerful days…we visited many families and these families have taken a special place in my heart. These were the parents of the students that are enrolled in the art school. The first family thatwe visited…the mother's name was Floridalma and she has 6 children (one of which is in…
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Magdalena, Guatemala-Day 1 !! 🙂
Hola amigos!! Wow, it's hard to believe I've been here for a full day now! Pastor Ben and I arrived here to Magdalena, Guatemala yesterday late afternoon. Ben will be staying here with me until Monday. We were greeted at the airport by one of the families that are a part of DeepStream (one of the missionary families…
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Updated Photos!
We have added a few photos from the January visit. More photos, and a couple videos, will be added soon! Please visit to the Photo's Page to view the latest updates! zp8497586rq
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Baking School Update!
In August, the IndyMetro team to Guatemala gave what seemed like a simple gift. Towards the end of the trip one of the young ladie's, Violetta, who's brother is a student at the art school shared her dream was to learn how to cook. We thought that sounded like a simple dream we could participate in. Violetta's dream to…
