Time is flying by....

Time seems to be just flying by... reservations are made, airfare has been purchased.  We are well on our way to getting our plans, for the June trip, made.  It is hard to believe that in less than 10 weeks we will be boarding a plane to Guatemala... Seems like yesterday we started planning and were 6 months away from traveling... We are getting really excited here in my house, in anticipation of being back in Guatemala, working and getting to see friends and family....
Can't wait to see everyone in a few weeks to discuss more of our plans for the trip and begin preparing our packing lists etc....
Have a great Spring Break, everyone!!!

June 2013

We are in the planning process for our next trip.  We head to Guatemala in June with a large group.  I am getting so excited for this trip.  It is going to be awesome! 
Members of our group, you can ask questions by clicking "comment" at the end of the post. 
I will try to post any updates and information I have regarding our trip.
Can't believe how quickly the time is flying by!  We will be landing in Guatemala before we know it.

Fundraiser news and update

I have been very neglectful in keeping up with blog posts lately, sorry all of you who follow here.
We are very busy planning for our next trip. We are going at the end of October.
Today we had our first fundraising event after church services. We are once again selling Fair Trade handicrafts from Guatemala. This year we are trying something new; we are taking orders for Fair Trade coffee. So far we are off to a good start with our fundraisers. We got several orders for coffee ad sold a few of our handicrafts.
We hope to work on the Mission Guatemala project, with our new friend Tom, and help him to renovate an old building into a medical clinic.
Tom will be speaking at our church on Aug. 14th, for an evening of coffee and desert, and tell us more about Mission Guatemala.

As I get more details ironed out I will try to post updates....

Mission plans update

Hi everyone, I know it has been a while since I last posted here but til now didn't have any thing new to write about. Now for the update; we have tentatively set a date of October 26th to November 6th, 2010 for our next mission trip to Panajachel Guatemala. I will be talking with Tom from Salud y Paz this week about the possibility of working with them while we are there. We hope to have more people join our team this time so we can work on a bigger project.
Right now, we are still tossing around fundraiser ideas. If you have any ideas please post in the comments. We are praying that this date will work out because we would love to celebrate our son's birthday in Guatemala with our Guatemala family. When I have more details, I will write more. Until then, El Dios bendicete!

New link in my favorites

Still working on possible plans for a mission trip in the summer. But wanted to share this link with you: http://freedomthroughfriendship.blogspot.com/ Please check it out; Jody is raising money to purchase land in Guatemala for a Women's Crisis center.

Future plans

Hope there are some still following. I try to blog a little about how we are still connected to the work in Panajachel.
As for the future, we hope to be able to return to Panajachel or some other place in Guatemala next summer or in the Spring of 2011.
Currently we are researching programs, currently working in Guatemala that are sponsored through the Methodist church. With Anita's help we have found a couple that may be promising but I still have to find out if they are okay with small children coming along on the work projects. I will continue to update has we move a long in the process towards planning another mission trip. If any one is interested in going along with us to Guatemala, please post a comment on the blog with an e-mail address, or call the church office.

student sponsorship

After our visit to Panajachel; Larry and I talked a lot about what we could do to continue to help. I believe I mentioned in an earlier post about the woman who asked to speak with us; we decided to sponsor her 9 yr old daughter for school. After much checking and gathering of information it was discovered that this child already had a student sponsor. So after a lot of discussion and e-mails; we offered to sponsor the youngest daughter to go to preschool, if the mom wanted her to go. She will attend the new preschool in Pana, that Mayan Families will be opening; should be open in a couple of weeks. Was supposed to have opened a couple of weeks ago but they were informed, after everything was ready to go, that they had to get the go ahead from the board of education. So they are working on that and hopefully will be ready to open soon. I didn't get to meet the little girl, didn't know she was there, but Larry met her. There are so many children in need of sponsors so that they can attend school and have more opportunities when they grow up. Education plays an important part in breaking the cycle of poverty, everywhere.