Our summer has been filled with lots of activities and experiences. We want to take a moment to update you on our recent travels around Latin America.
Guatemala:
On June 22 John left for 2 weeks in Guatemala. The purpose of the trip was to meet with the FH staff in Guatemala and do several trainings over some curriculum that John has been developing.
Over the past 6 months John has been focusing on developing a set of lessons to be used to train FH staff in some of the core principles that FH uses in their ministry. Principles such as the Biblical roots of Poverty, understanding Development from a Biblical Perspective and seeing resources through God’s eyes. As well, we have found that these principles have been great resources to use for the training of international teams that visit Bolivia. The lessons speak not only to the work of FH but really to the biblical roots of missions and development. So, John has been teaching these lessons in a variety of contexts and spent several days in Guatemala teaching and training on these principles. A few days were spent teaching FH Guatemala workers and a few days with an international team that was visiting. The trainings went great and John was blessed to be apart of the FH Guatemala staff for a few days.
John also had the privilege to meet with a few Guatemalan pastors and share ideas with them about their work with churches. As to be expected it is always great to see how God is working in other countries, so John’s time with the pastors was an encouragement and blessing.
While in Guatemala, John also spent precious time with our good friends the Evans family. David and Melinda Evans and their 6 kids are serving with FH in Guatemala and have become such a special family to us. We have walked through several challenges together, as FH missionaries, and they are a huge encouragement and blessing to us. As always our time together was filled with lots of laughs and great memories. Seeing their home, family, and life in Guatemala was great, and the time to share and sharpen each other in our ministries was a blessing. A special thank you to Dave and Melinda for hosting John and sharing their life and ministry for a week.
Beautiful Volcano at Lago de Atitlan
The surprises you find when hiking through the Guatemalan rainforest
Center plaza in Antigua Guatemala
Training with FH Guatemala worker
Hike through the jungle to a Village training
Beautiful Guatemalan village tucked in the mountains
Going to the market to sell flowers
Pastoral training
Our good friends David and Melinda Evans
2 comments:
I was scrolling through your pictures when the Evans' faces caught my eye-- I thought, "Wait a minute, I thought I was on the Wardens' blog!" How fabulous that you got to see them!!!
Sounds like the trips were very fruitful. Thanks for sharing all the details and photos!
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