Welcome to the Blog

Welcome to the blog for the 2018 Guatemala Construction, Health & Hygiene
Team! We are a group of 11 from St Paul Lutheran Church in Northville,
Michigan from ages 16 to 76.  We will be led by Barbara Hoffmeier, a Team
Leader trained and supported by MOST Ministries. We will leave on April 2nd
and return on the 8 th.

We are committed to serving the people of Amatilan with our Host Dr Elroy. He
maintains a Health Clinic there and also leads a church group. Our mission is to
help with some maintenance projects at the facility and teach Health and
Hygiene Classes to adults and children. We will stay at the mission, which is our
work-site. We will work along side the members of the church and hope to
encourage them with their work in the community.

Please pray for our team as we prepare for this trip and that our efforts will be
productive for the mission there. Also, that the people we will be in contact with
will be encouraged in their faith and others in the community will have open
hearts to the Holy Spirit!

Here is a link to our team page: mostministries.org/1813_guatemala_construction

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A Little Vacation

Yesterday (Thursday) we got out roofing project all finished. We also had another 50 kids come for the health and hygiene class.  We got started on painting and then finished the day with a nice dinner of ribs (and very good ones I might add). Today (Friday) we got to take a break from working and we went into Antigua, the original capital of Guatemala, and explored the area a bit. First we visited a coffee plantation were we got a tour through a music museum on the history of music in Guatemala, then we got a tour through the process of growing and roasting coffee beans. Then we went to the public market to explore and buy anything that caught our eye. Once we were done in the market we drove to the public square in Antigua to get ice cream and then returned back to Amatitlan. Sadly Chris Burgess was feeling sick today and was unable to go with us on the tour day, so keep him in your prayers for him to get better. We just have one more day of of painting and teaching the kids before
Read more

The Work Begins

Yesterd ay (Tuesday) we got to see the whole compound where we are staying at. We were shown the roofing project we would be working on and a few people went into town to buy supplies for it . After a little but of trial and error, we got the roofing started . Yesterday we also had the health and hygiene class on hand washing for the children and adults . A few people on the team went down to the local school to publicize that they would be having the class and 60 kids and 6 adults came . We also got an AMAZING dinner of pot roast with rice and fresh tortillas . Today (Wednesday) we started back on the project. We had to make a trip into town to get some more supplies, as it seems we will also have to do tomorrow as well,  and we just about finished the roof. Luckily we got ever thing put away just before the rain started and the roof held. All we have left to do is ad one more sheet to finish the roof as well as adding the gutter. Today the health and hygiene class was on germs
Read more