It’s Sunday morning and 3 out of 4 kids are awake. We let them stay up a little later Saturday nights to give us some time to sleep in Sunday mornings. Sometimes I wish for more time with kids asleep but this morning it’s so peaceful and beautiful watching them together. […]
There are so many opportunities to serve at Hope of Life. It is one of the most incredible parts of being a full-time missionary in Guatemala. With such a vast and wide variety of ways to minister here, each experience is a blessing. One of my favorite things to do while […]
With tears in my eyes, I wrote those words in my notebook a couple of weeks ago. It was not a “my shirt is inside out” moment – it was a “God, what am I doing” kind of moment. I was working with one of the boys at Kelly’s House and we weren’t […]
This year, my Aunt and I have started classes with some of the children and adults from Kelly’s house. We work one-on-one each afternoon with the students, teaching them anything from simply picking up a crayon to writing their own name. I have a total of nine students that I work […]
A few years ago, the Lord gave Paula and I a dream to provide the people in the village of Hope of Life and Causelife with an education and the opportunity to graduate from high school. To realize that dream, we started the “Mt Comfort Guatemala […]
The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.”
Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not […]
Eight years ago, I visited Pueblo del Rio for the first time with our TRBC team. It was my first trip to Hope of Life in Guatemala and my first missions trip anywhere. I had never experienced such poverty and I was overwhelmed. Everyone should be touched like that at some […]
