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Give Hope for Christmas
We have finished another successful year here at Love Guatemala. It has been a great year with many lives transformed and many students being trained. Many have had their lives transformed spiritually and we had 20 students graduate from 3 of our vocational schools. At the end of each year we have an enrollment process…
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Vacation Schools 2015
The first 2 weeks of November we have vacation schools her at Love Guatemala. The school year here in Guatemala runs from January to October. And so most kids are on their “summer” vacation from November until January. So another way in which we give hope to the community here is through offering a two…
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2015 Love Guatemala Graduation Pictures
We had a fabulous Love Guatemala Celebration last week. As you may have seen on the last blog we had 20 graduates. We want to share some of the pictures from this beautiful evening. It was a celebration of the hard work of these 2o students over the last 2-3 years. Each of the students…
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Love Guatemala Graduation 2015
We are beginning to prepare for our 2015 graduation. It is always an exciting time of the year. Our graduation is set for Thursday, October 22nd. We have 20 graduates this year. There are 12 graduates from the cooking school, 2 from the carpentry school and 6 from the art school. Here is the list…
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Until Next Time
The day has finally come. My last blog post. Officially, I can say that was the fastest three months of my life so far. I have never learned so much and made myself so willing to try new things. I did it. I jumped into another culture, language, family, way of life, and community. Graciously,…
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The Last Sunday in August
This week, I attended a wake, went to Catholic mass, and walked in a funeral procession to a cemetery. A student in our art school (also Carlos and Thelma’s neighbor) lost his dear mother on Sunday morning. I learned there is a tradition in Magdalena where a wake is held in the home of the…
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Oremos
This week, I was given the opportunity to share the weekly devotional with out staff and different schools. Ben finished a study on our identity in Christ and we’ve since been going through the life of Jesus with the Gospel of Matthew as our guide. To say I was nervous could be an understatement. Preparing…
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Open our Eyes Lord
Our summer of teams is officially over, but sure enough we will be hosting more near the end of September and beginning of October. Mission teams have proven to be a huge benefit to the ministry of Love Guatemala. They are extremely encouraging, supportive, and invigorating to host. I am personally so thankful for the…
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Humility is not Synonymous with Poverty
Buena Vista is a village a little ways up from us. It is much smaller than Magdalena and notoriously poor. We have students in our schools from there as well as children that come to the feeding center. Recently, an incident occurred that has forced us to drive 5 kids to and from Buena Vista…
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A Taste of the Kingdom
This past week we were lucky enough to christen our Feeding Center. Two weeks earlier, we had our official first day of the program that is going to feed around 50 of the neediest children of our community twice a week. Tuesday though, we were able to celebrate and pray over our completed outdoor space…
