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Board Visit and Celebration
This past week we have had the privilege of having some of our board members here with us! It has been great to have Kim, Jainie, and Amy here to see all the new things happening in Love Guatemala. In the morning on Friday, we all had a staff meeting and presented our plans for…
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Students’ Final Project
Last week the students that will be graduating this year worked on their final project. They all did such a great job! The students from the cooking school cooked and presented a wonderful three course meal to the people they invited, the staff, and the team from Piedmont Church in Georgia. There were two teams…
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Telma Lopez and the Art School
Our very first school was the art school. Leading this school since day one was Telma Lopez. She does an amazing job leading and loving these kids. We are grateful for her! Read a little more about here and the art school below. Telma has an incredible creativity, because in all of Love Guatemala’s activities…
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Gala Night
Last week, Love Guatemala hosted their first ever Gala Night Fundraiser! The gala was to raise funds for the ministries at Love Guatemala. There was a wonderful dinner, prepared by our very own students from the cooking school. We also had live music brought to us by a group that is located in the area.…
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Another Life Changed…Julio
Cindy and Tom Denome have visited several times and are faithful supporters of Love Guatemala. Check out Cindy’s blog post below of a young man named Julio who’s life has been changed. Thanks Cindy for sharing! I have made four trips to Love Guatemala. The first was in February of 2015. Upon returning home from…
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Vacation Schools 2017
We have vacation schools each year after the school year ends. (The school year in Guatemala runs from January to October.) It gives us a chance to scope out new students for our coming year and it’s great for these kids to experience and learn what we can teach them in the short amount of…
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2017 Graduation
We had a our 2017 graduation last weekend and we had 30 students graduate! This was a very special graduation for two reasons: The first, is that we are officially accredited by the Ministry of Education! This means that the diplomas we gave our students are stamped by the Ministry of Education and can help…
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Forming and Continuing Relationships…
One of the things we value at Love Guatemala is relationships. We know that it is through relationships that God’s love is shown and people come to know him. Relationship building is our focus when we have visitors and teams. This week we had some visitors here from Georgia. They are from one of…
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Love Guatemala Graduates Making an Impact!
We shared here about the graduates and that they were going to do internships as a part of the requirements for them to graduate. Well last week they finished up their internships and they results were amazing! They represented Love Guatemala well and did a great job in their perspective areas of work. Some of…
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Lives Transformed
Love Guatemala exists to “give hope to Guatemalans through vocational training and the gospel of Jesus Christ.” We are not here to just train, but to give hope. Hope comes in many ways but the main way is through Jesus transforming lives. I wanted to take a minute and share a story of one such…
