Love Guatemala Blog

  • How Your Support is Changing Lives…

    Thank you to so many of you that give and pray for Love Guatemala. Many of you sponsor a student, teacher or school. Some of you are a hope partner or give in other ways. Some of you have come down on teams and seen first hand how your support impacts lives. I wanted to…

  • Vocational Training leads to New Jobs!

    Our graduates finished up their internships a few weeks back. This a requirement they have to complete their training with us. They have to spend 160 hours of job training in their field. (Check out a few pics below) This gives our students great experience and even has lead to several job offers for some…

  • Independence Day Night

    As you may know, September 15th is Guatemala’s independence day. We celebrated by having an independence day event this year.  Some of the schools worked together to put on skits about Bible stories. They all did a great job and helped to share parts of the Bible with everyone who attended!  We also had a…

  • 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.…

  • 21 Days of Prayer

    Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue; God’s voice is its most essential part. Listening to God’s voice is the secret of the assurance that He will listen to mine. — Andrew Murray We are entering a time of prayer here at Love Guatemala. We know that without prayer Love Guatemala does not exist. Love Guatemala…

  • Love Guatemala Exposition

    One of our desire for this year was to begin to sell more of our products that the schools are producing. So this year we are beginning small and we had our first exposition this past weekend where our students and teachers took their product to a local exposition here in Magdalena. We did not…

  • 2018 Graduates Exposition

    Last Friday, we were able to have a really cool activity with the students! All the students had the theme of “Magdalena”, which each of the different schools in Love Guatemala had to find a way to represent. They had three and a half hours to prepare everything and then present it to the parents,…

  • Volcano Relief Efforts

    Many of you have now seen the horrible devastation that happened not to far from us. We are maybe 15 miles from where Fuego did some horrible destruction. It wiped out a few towns and affected several other. Hundreds were killed and thousands misplaced. We have visited dozens of families in one of the towns…

  • Mother’s Day

    This past Tuesday, we had the opportunity to celebrate Mother’s Day with the mothers of our students. Mother’s Day in Guatemala was actually on Thursday, but we got to celebrate a little bit early. We were able to decorate our patio outside, set up a stage, and have a lot of different activities.  One of…

  • Field Day

    Last week we had a field day with our students and staff! The activity day was to raise money for our upcoming Mother’s Day celebration. People sold food and drinks there to help with the fund. All of the teams that participated went through obstacles including crawling through mud, running a “marathon” and going from…