Every Monday night, there is a group of Christians that meet in Jorge’s house in Jocotenango. We meet together with the specific purpose of developing a greater understanding of the Bible and through that, developing a deeper relationship with God so we can share God with others. Our group started out studying about God and…
Do you know how many lightbulbs there are in your house? I didn’t know how many were in my house until I counted them this week. I counted 85, that’s more than I thought I would have and I probably missed a few. (If anyone in my house reads this, they will probably go through…
Today was one of those early morning trips into Guatemala City. Without traffic, it’s less than an hour by car. With traffic . . . it’s an eternity. It normally takes an hour to get from our house to the city, but in the mornings, if I leave at 6:30, I arrive at 9:30. If…
(This post is an edited version of a message I preached while filling in for our pastor at our English speaking church here in Guatemala. It’s kind of long.) To provide some background, it was the fourth message in a series about love. The first in the series was “I love my enemies”, the second…
The beauty around us The ugliness when we look up close. Living here in Guatemala, we often post pictures of the beauty around us. We live in a valley surrounded by volcano’s. Our temperature is almost always 70-75 degrees. We live an hour from the Pacific ocean with it’s palm trees, black sand, and blue…
So, I was at our Bible study the other night… and I was looking around while we were singing some songs. There were about 35 people there and I had one of “those” moments. We were singing “Cuan Grande es Dios” (How Great is Our God) and I was amazed at the group that God…
Do you remember your first long trip, alone? It doesn’t matter whether it was on an airplane or in a car, or even a bicycle for that matter. I remember mine, it was in my car. It was my second semester in college and I was now permitted to have a car on campus….