Church Activity

We had our first activity for the faithful folks that attend the adult/teen Bible study in Santa Rita. These are the ones who bring their Bibles each week, turn in their devotional sheets, and memorize verses.

Jimmy took them all to Tikal. Everyone fit into 2 micros, there were 34 of us!

This is Eulalio and his family, Rosalino, Jesús and Bernabé. Only Jesús has accepted Christ so far, but they come every week! Please pray that the rest will come to know the Lord soon.)

The ones with the most points even got to go on the zip lines!

Afterwards we all went to Cristina's house, El Encantadero. She cooked hot dogs for everyone. It was a lot of fun. This wasn't an outreach, it was a get to know you better and just have fun with those who want to learn more about God. We loved it and so did they!

It was exciting to look around the room and see people who knew nothing of God before we came. Their lives are changed because God led us to come here! So thankful!

I love Bernabé. She is always checking on me and the boys.

Before we left we worshipped together and had a brief testimony time.

We are going to have to plan another activity soon. I loved having everyone together!

CRAZY ITEM OF THE DAY: The majority of our people had never been to Tikal. Jimmy has been over a dozen times. Guides are expensive, so after reading up on things, he is the guide for our groups. He got some looks this time though. It's normal to see a Guatemalan leading around a bunch of gringos, but not a bunch of Guatemalans listening to a gringo! It probably was a first.

Kids' Party

It was time for another reward party for all the points the 9-12 year olds have earned. This time we had it at our home. We all loaded up in the pickup... all 12 of us! It was funny when they got to our house. I think they expected a really fancy place. We do not have a wall, so we do not want our house to look too nice... we would get robbed for sure! They said, “For rich people, this house is not very rich!” That made me laugh. Our house is kind of ugly on the outside. Since we are gringos we are “rich”. I think we are rich, but they are talking about, “we could buy our town” rich. They always say, “your house looks pretty on the inside!”

They have been doing their devotional sheets, bringing their Bibles, bringing visitors, and memorizing verses to earn points. Yesterday they got to spend their points on all kinds of sugar!

I made cupcakes, popcorn balls, and carmel cream sandwiches. Jimmy made candied apples! They were delicious and a very hot item at our “store”! They’ve only had honey apples before. We had tons of interesting candy we found at the party store too. One was miniature propane tanks full of candy... I thought those were very culturally relevant!

I filled them full of pizza, coke, and sugar and then we went outside to play tons of games. Surprisingly we only had one child get sick!

We had 18 qualify, but only 10 got to come due to parents’ issues.