Pastor's Blog

The team arrive on the mountain around 11:30PM on Thursday night, 1/31/19.  We are very thankful that our Michigan friends were able to get out of Grand Rapids as the weather had been nasty.  They met three others in Atlanta and the rest is history.

The Friday morning was different.  First, breakfast was cold i.e. cereal and breakfast bars.  The morning devotional time was a bit abbreviated with no musical worship.  Then everyone headed down the hill to the site of the new school for a ground breaking ceremony.  There the team was joined by local and state dignitaries including principals from other schools, officials from the state department of education, the head of the state department of education and the governor of the state of Chimaltenango.  Also, Delmar (the contractor) and his wife, Fabiola (the architect) joined the team along with some of Delmar’s key workers.

Deidra had planned a nice program.  Some of the children shared, one mother shared, the head of the education department shared, the governor shared, Lazaro shared and Deidra shared.  Then a photo-op with the shovels symbolizing the “breaking” of the ground.  Afterwards a reception was held in the feeding center building and it was nicely done.

Ok, enough of the soft stuff.  The building team under the direction of Dean Kapenga took off and they completed three houses to the point of being ready for concrete while getting the lumber in the ground on three more.  The medical team under the direction of Dr. Mark Stid (actually Dr. Karen is the boss but do not tell Dr. Mark) headed out and had a fairly easy day of doing medical.  Terri Scholz cleaned teeth of some of the children in the feeding center ministry.

Supper was served and then a time of fellowship followed.  That was this team’s Friday.

Thank you for praying and thank you for checking on this team.  All is well.