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Values
Each month our staff and student devotionals are centered around a certain value. Each value was thought of at the beginning of the year and based on a passage from the Bible. They are valued that we want our staff and students to live by. Not only are the devotionals based on the values, but…
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New Year, New Opportunity
We started our classes 3 weeks ago and we have enjoyed having the students back. We have a few new changes for this year with our staff and programs we are offering. One new exciting thing we have done is open a weekend option for our carpentry school. So now men who work during the…
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Saying Goodbye
For the past 2 months I have been the intern at Love Guatemala and I have leaned SOO MUCH from my time there. However, this time has come to an end. These past few months I have leaned so much, made new connections, relationships, friendships, and most importantly I have grown closer to our…
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Leadership Training Graduation
We just graduated 51 students from our leadership training program! This was an important event for us and we are so proud of all of these leaders. We partner with Guatemala Prospera which is a John Maxwell Foundation partner. This year Carlos reached out to a few other local ministries and was able to train leaders…
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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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New Love Guatemala Babies…
Today we went to visit 3 families with newborn babies. The first baby we visited was born from Jaqui, a 14 year old girl who was a students here but just graduated. Her baby was born about 8 days ago and is very healthy! We brought her some gifts from her sponsors for her precious…
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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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Bridging The Gap
We had team here last week and they got to see the students they were sponsoring graduate. A few of the people that sponsor students here got to see where their love and money was going and what it was doing. Our sponsors helped some of our students graduate. That’s a big reason we love…
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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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A Blessing in Disguise
Yesterday we had a baby shower for a girl that was fourteen. Her name is Jaqueline Jasmin Miranda Panameno but we call her Jaqui. Jaqui has five brothers but her father died a while ago and after that her mother no longer wanted her and her brothers to continue school. Soon after her mother left their…
