Author: Adventures

As we landed at the Guatemala City airport, the natural beauty of the country overwhelmed us, but we did not anticipate how the beauty of this place would continue to overwhelm us as we set out for a prayer walk on Tuesday morning.  We saw a beautiful lake surrounded by amazingly green volcanos and hills all set below the bluest sky with the whitest clouds you can imagine.  As we greeted the people we passed on the street, their joy and inner beauty overwhelmed us.  The children´s smiles overflowed with joy, and their eyes lit up so bright that they could blind...

Each day at camp brings new adventures and the ups and downs of learning in community, building our lives together while preparing to serve in Guatemala.  So far, we have studied a variety of topics, but our evening sessions have come from the book of Ephesians and focused on our identity as the Beloved of Christ.  Christ’s Beloved are chosen, broken, blessed and given.  Grasping these truths has changed our perspective and better prepared us for the trip ahead.  In addition to evening worship and teaching, we also train throughout the day.  We decided to...

After reading Psalm 145 together as a team Satrday morning, we declared it a day of praise and celebration.  As a group, we committed to praise the Lord continually, regardless of our circumstances, and to celebrate all the things we see Him do as a way to firm them up in our memory and share them with others. In addition to celebrating all the little truths the Lord has taught us and few team successes at our training tasks, we also had a very special event to celebrate today: Lizzie turned 15!!  We surprised her after dinner with a bunch of homemade presents, a cake and a...

Blessed are those whose strength is in You,In whose heart are the highways to Zion. They go from strength to strength;Each one appears before God in Zion. Psalm 84:5-7 The last twenty-four hours have passed like a whirlwind.  About this time yesterday, leaders began meeting students at the airport in Atlanta.  Since then, we’ve said farewell to our families, met our teammates, made the long journey back to camp on a colorful school bus, crammed our luggage into tents and been surprised by a sudden rainstorm.  We have also begun to worship the Lord and study His...