Guatemala City Ministry Trip 2023

 Send Off Service 21 JULY 23

We met tonight at Wooddale Church at the Edina Campus for our ministries sendoff service.  Its a time to tell our families and supporters about what we are going to be doing while we are in Guatemala.

Just a quick overview, we will be spending an hour in each of the 52 classrooms, around 2,000 students that we visit from Monday through Wednesday sharing the prodigal son story, message of salvation and teaching a little English.  The high school will have an added program in identity which teens often struggle with in any country.  The team will be joined my a mime team from San Marcos Guatemala at where 2 churches will converge to watch their program, hear our Pastor Derek deliver a message on, "Being on Mission" and our children's team sharing a story and a craft.  Our team will also be joined by our Global Partners teens that will challenge us to a baseball game and we will team up together to take on the high school in a soccer game.  Many more things are planned, but we will have a busy schedule.

We have been blessed by having the largest team ever and we are asking for much prayer to be effective in delivering the gospel, team health, unity, grow in our own faith, share the love of Christ and serve these communities.

Antigua R&R

                          

     

The team has worked hard all week and we are in Antigua relaxing before we return home. Stopped at an overlook in Antigua before lunch.

Service Day #4

Today we traveled over 2 hours to Escuintla and presented a small VBS. The service team made a bench and we did and we helped the teens learn some English. We stopped at the beach after our ministry.  In Escuintla the temperature was more than 10 degrees warmer. The church had much love to offer and really enjoyed our team's stay.  We are planning to make this a place next year to share the gospel again.

86 year old man

The pastor and many children share spaghetti

Danielle and Miguel cook nuggets

The pastor's family with Davis

We served a meal for all the children and adults before we started the VBS.

Playing cat and mouse with the parachute

Singing action songs before lunch

Jaime telling the children a story

The pastor in front of the church

The Mime team shares a gift with each of us

Joe having fun

The team hanging out at the beach for a while

Service Day #3

 Today was our last ministry day in Santa Sophia school in San Jose Pinula.

Service Day #2

Today we started the day at the school making balloon animals for the children before class. 

The childrens team visited several classrooms telling them the story of the lost sheep. They enjoyed making the craft.

The teenage ministry team presented the salvation message using the iodine, bleach and water. The team prayed with the kids to accept Christ in their lives. The teachers shared that they start their day in prayer and end their day in prayer with the students.

The service team finished making 3 benches for the school and 1 for the church. The team has started changing out light fixtures in some of the rooms at the old school. Getting an upgrade from the fluorescent to LED lighting.

In the afternoon, the teen ministry team shared the salvation message with 50 students at the old school on the soccer field. The school gets to use the cities soccer field.

The Mime team shared the skit on forgiven to students in Guatemala City. At the end of their day they joined us and we enjoyed singing worship songs together.