Our First Visit to Guatemala!

So we've made our first visit to Guatemala to begin our partnership with Pastor Merari Rodriguez of Iglesia Galilea in San Lucas. It was an amazing trip and we learned a lot about Guatemala and the work of Pastor Merari along with Iglesia Galilea. We hope to begin a child sponsorship program with them sometime in 2010 - hopefully for the start of their new school year, which starts in January.

We also hope to be able to begin to bring some kind of help for the multitide of very young mothers in the areas we visited. In these areas, girls get married and start having babies at very young ages (we met a 14-year-old girl who is pregnant!) and because they are poor, they don't have the means to seek medical care. Most will have their babies at home. We may begin collecting New Mother's Kits for these girls or perhaps just collect financial donations towards this need and have our partners in Guatemala purchase the items locally.

We have many thoughts and desires but of utmost importance is - What would God have us do? Please pray that He will make His direction clear both to us and to Pastor Merari and Iglesia Galilea.

We'll keep you posted!
Jamie :-)