Guatemala City Ministry 2015 (Leaves in 3 days)

Good Afternoon,

The GCM 2015 team is planning the send-off service this Saturday, 2/7 at 6:00PM in room 276.  We'll be joined by Richard Payne for a time of prayer and an overview of our ministry this year.

Our one week ministry trip officially begins on Sunday, 8 February.  We plan on arriving at 1:00PM in  Guatemala City where we will assemble the dental kits.

We'll be supporting a Vacation Bible School (VBS) with the Planters Life Church in Guatemala City Zona 6. We plan on working with the children of this community. The VBS will have 2 sessions each day in meeting the morning and afternoon public school schedules. We'll be doing a morning and afternoon VBS with up to 200 children total. We had Bibles donated for the children and plan on engaging them with puppet shows, games, songs, crafts, stories and Luis the clown. Luis has dedicated his life in working with developing children programs to deliver the gospel message.

In addition to working with the children, we'll be helping the church prepare meals each day for the community. Early in the morning a street market opens and produce, meat and grains can be purchased. Once these supplies have been acquired, we go back to the church and volunteers from the church will help prepare the meals. The team will serve the meals to the children and their parents that come for lunch. During lunch, a small program is presented to talk to the families about Christ through Luis or his sons in their clown presentations.

Another large ministry this year will be working with the Precious Moments School and 180+ students that need dental care.  We are teaming up with dentists in Guatemala City that will be seeing these children, as we perform administrative duties, helping them to learn to care for their teeth and coloring book activities. We'll be sharing the love of Christ with them, as they wait their turn to see the dentist.

A smaller ministry this year is again working with public school kids in telling them about the use of drugs and a testimonial.  We have activities for them to help them understand the effects of drugs using special goggles and gloves that affect their gross and fine motor skills.  The challenge will be for them to unwrap a candy sucker with these gloves on and with the goggles that distort their vision. 

I'll be trying to update the blog each night with pictures and some highlights of the days activities.  We are looking forward in seeing how God is going to use our team this year.

Please pray for our safety, a continued servants heart, opportunities to share the gospel and for people to come to know Christ as their Lord and Savior.

Dios Bendiga!
Terry