This past week families from the church adopted two people from our team and I got the opportunity to be paired with Megan. Our family consists of a married couple, Carlos and Miriam and their three sons Carlos, Abraham, and Isai (God works through this 4 year old already and its evident).  Miriam is such a strong believer in Christ and probably has the most faith out of any woman or man I have ever met. From just being around her a few times eating with her family, I feel like my faith has been strengthened so much more and have learned so much. Every word that she says I want to pay...

´´May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.´´  Romans 15:13 Everyday here in Panajachel has been filled with so much joy and peace.  I am constantly learning new things about Gods character, but for the past few days it has been compassion.  At the beginning of the week I was drawn to John 11 where Jesus is comforting Martha and Mary for the loss of their brother.  When Jesus saw how deeply saddened they were, he was deeply moved and he...

 Rachel Short here, checking in from the humble abode. The Lord has revealed so much to me these past few weeks.  As I live in this culture, community, eat what they eat, do what they do, see what they see, I can’t imagine going back to what used to be my reality.  I have been praying to the Lord about my future and where He wants me to go.  For so long I was not sure where I was going with my life, but coming on this trip I gave up what I wanted so that I could receive the gift that God wanted to give me.  I am so thankful that I chose to accept what...

On Sunday, Team Panajachel had the opportunity to visit a hospital in a neighboring town; our objective was to pray for the patients there and ask that the Lord’s powerful hand would heal their bodies and transform their hearts.  After a curvy and slightly nauseating “chicken bus” ride up the mountain, we arrived at the hospital in Solola.  I didn’t really know what to expect, just that it would be different than the state-of-the-art hospital where my mom works back home; what we saw was far worse than anything my imagination could have conjured.  In...

Blessed.  That is how I feel about this opportunity to spend my summer in Panajachel!  The Lord is doing awesome things in me, my teammates, and this city that were staying in.     This theme of water is constantly being brought to my attention.  One of the first days we were here, something broke in the bathroom and water was shooting out of the wall at a rapid pace.  The room began to flood, and we all had to sweep out the crazy amount of water in the bedroom until the water was turned off.   Our team is studying John, and in John Jesus talks a...

Je suis completement heureux detre ici avec des gens superbe ! Le temps que je passe ici est tout simplement fantastic. Jai la chance de visiter le Guatemala en compagnie de gens qui veulent servir Jesus. Dieu ma utilise cette semaine en faisant un appel aupres de plusieurs enfants. Jai utiliser ma manipulation avec les cartes en faisant des illusions. Gloire a Dieu ! je me demandais comment je pouvais mixer les cartes tout en prechant la bonne nouvelle. Jai eu la chance de demontrer que les cartes etaient seuleument des illusions, MAIS que Dieu est vivant et quil peut faire des miracles...