Love Guatemala Blog

  • A Life Changed…

    Love Guatemala exists to bring hope through sharing the gospel and through vocational training.  We often see this happening.  We see those without hope receiving hope.  We see those who thought they could never have their own business become successful in selling cakes, painting beautiful art and making incredible furniture.  We don’t often enough share…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Cultural Night 2015

    On September 15th, Guatemala celebrates it’s independence.  Most schools here celebrate independence day with several activities.  One of the things they do is have a cultural night.  So this year Love Guatemala had their first annual Cultural Night.  It included some cultural and not so cultural dances, a drama and also the first election of…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • A Bit of a Ramble

    If you haven’t heard any news from Guatemala in a while, do a quick Google search. Guatemala is currently experiencing a time of political unrest and upheaval. Businesses and schools were shut down and many roads blocked yesterday as Guatemala came together to protest corruption within their government. Watching the news, I was struck by…

  • 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…