Recap of the Ministry

The team worked hard throughout the week with long days. Getting up early and being ready by 7:15AM in the morning for breakfast and not concluding the day until after 10PM.

Each day consisted of getting a delicious home cooked breakfast from our host at his home.

The first two mornings we traveled to Zone 12 in Guatemala City to our ministry site at the Precious Moments School working in our dental ministry. Lunch consisted of getting a quick meal on the run after the dental clinic while traveling to the school in San Jose Pinula. The afternoons were working with the older students at the school on a spiritual based activity and a drug based activity.

In our ministry at Santa Elena Barillas we worked with Casa Loney ministry that helps street children learn basic reading and writing skills. The children are from families that can't afford to send their children to the school. The children go to school for only half of the day.

Lunch was made over the wood stove and consisted of rice or noodles and vegetables. These meals are not the normal for these children. They will normally have 2 meals. Their breakfast is normally a tortilla and refried beans. The families may have eggs, but they will have only a couple to be split among their family. Their dinners will consist of tortilla, beans and maybe a vegetable. So, sharing these meals with them was a special treat.

In the afternoon of the last ministry day in Santa Elena Barillas, more children came after school and we were able to share the gospel with them through stories, puppet shows and crafts. We worked with Luis, who had planned on 200 children for a big event. The rain may have kept some from attending, but we still had well over a hundred children participate in this outreach event.

After our ministry day, we returned to our hosts home for a home cooked Guatemalan dinner. Each day we had an extra activity in the evenings. We would return to the retreat center by 9PM and have devotions and reflect on the day.