A “normal” closing day for this team in regards to house dedications.  Little confusion on which team was to dedicate which houses but it all worked out.  That one is on the team leader.  Hopefully he will improve before the next time!

The team served breakfast to the My Special Treasure students to begin the day.  The staff there then made some presentations to show their gratefulness for all that has been done for them.  Good connection between this team and that ministry.

Esvin’s house was concreted and finished yesterday morning.  That brought the total built by this team to thirty.  That is a very good number and we give God the glory for allowing it to happen.

The entire team left GRACE Mountain at 3:00AM this morning heading to the Guatemala City airport where they will all board a flight heading to Atlanta.  From there it will be flights to Chicago, Huntsville, Mobile & Pensacola.  Pray for their safety in travel.

It has been a blessed week.  Really good team members – even the Yankees!  Thank you for praying.  Thank you for reading these blog entries.  All glory to God!  Blessings!

The team once again went to My Special Treasure and fed the students breakfast.  Two special mornings of doing that thus far.  A good size group then came back to the feeding center while the others went to build four more houses.  Those four houses were built, concreted and finished in a matter of a couple of hours which brings the total built this trip in that village to twenty nine.

Another team went and finished building the house for Esvin’s family.  It will receive concrete and be completed today.

The team hosted a food distribution for the ninety families involved in our feeding center ministry late yesterday afternoon.  Lots of hugs and smiles.  Thanks to Lazaro, Glendy & Kirk for coordinating this ministry opportunity.

The team then hosted ten state police members for supper.  Four of those guys were here in June but the other six were new.  They seemed to enjoy themselves and we presented them with a gift.

We were very surprised yesterday when a call came from the Governor of Chimaltenango (Chimaltenango is a city and a state – think New York City and state) saying that he had heard about GRACE Ministries and wanted to come meet us.  He and his entourage of four others arrived a little after 8:00PM, had supper and engaged in conversation.  Productive time as he is going to work on getting the road from El Tejar repaired.  If you have been here then you know that would be huge!  What a blessing to meet the Governor.

Today is dedication day after feeding the students at My Special Treasure again.

Pray for this team.  Thanks for checking on them.  Blessings!

I failed to mention yesterday that we had another wedding engagement take place on GRACE Mountain on Sunday afternoon.  She said “yes!”  Who?  Justin Yarborough proposed to Eva Mareno.  Congratulations to Justin & Eva!

Also, work began yesterday on expanding the existing feeding center building.  Plans call for that expansion to be finished by the end of October.  Pray for that project.

The team had a really good Monday.  Began by going to My Special Treasure and feeding breakfast (pancakes, sausage, black beans, breakfast bar and drink) to one hundred thirty three students.

A group then came back to GRACE Mountain and spent the day working at the feeding center.  Those folks had a blessed time.

The building teams were able to finish two houses that were started on Saturday and then build eight more bringing the total built to twenty five.  The concrete crew was able to pour concrete in twelve houses meaning all twenty five now have concrete.  The finishing crew finished all twenty five as well which means the original twenty five are completely finished.  Amazing!

One team went to Santo Domingo and put up the frame for the house for the family from the feeding center.  It will be finished today.

We have added four more houses in the village so those will be built and finished today, Lord willing.

All is well.  Have four ministry opportunities today.  Updates tomorrow.  Blessings!