Guatemala Team Update: Full Day. Full Hearts.

Monday’s events presented the greatest imaginable range of highs and lows. LEARNING CENTER Our partnership with VisionTrust is centered around a Learning Center, where children are taught about the love of Christ, receive academic enrichment, eat a nutritious...

Guatemala Team: Covered in Prayer

It is a privilege to serve on a short-term mission. Still, there is often anxiety mixed with the excitement of preparing to travel. Our team received the confidence of knowing that our trip was covered in prayer. BEFORE As we prepared to travel, our team committed to...

From Start to Finish

The construction team was able to build a classroom on Monday – Wednesday this week. God was with us. There is no doubt that having the skills, knowledge and ethic of Jansen Gehring and Greg Kleis enabled this to be built. God put them on this trip for a reason!...

Guatemala Team Update: My biggest takeaway is…

This is my first mission trip of any kind, so it is hard for me to collect my thoughts and assemble them into a coherent message. After 3 days in Guatemala, it has become clear what my biggest takeaway so far has been: Love one another. Why did I come on this trip? I...

The Day of Connections

Our second day was the “Day of Connections.” THE CHILDREN: We held VBS with 140 children. The connections we felt with these kids was very special. They just opened up and loved us and wanted our smiles and our hugs.   OUR TEAM: It was also a day of...

An Amazing First Day

Our first day in Guatemala was nothing short of amazing. We were able to go into the homes of the some of the poorest families and install wood burning stoves. These stoves are life changing for two reasons: 1) They have roof top vents, so the family does not have to...