we're here

Enjoying some beautiful weather tonight at the children's home. We had a great time worshipping at Fraternidad church. Had communion and enjoyed fellowship with some of the Hanken's and McCauleys afterward. Guatemala knows how to do Pizza Hut and Jodi and Jeff know how to do dessert which was excellent. Then I had the esteemed pleasure of sleeping through the Master's in their easy chair. Tomorrow our work begins and I'm sure that I'll be sore from a little basketball and my first attempt at goaltending in futbol. Hope everyone is doing well.
God bless,
adam

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Leavin' on a jetplane

Hello and goodbye to any or all of you that actually read this. A group of 11 and I leave for Guatemala tomorrow and we'll return, God-willing, on the 17th. We have some great work ahead of us as we tear down and repair a home, do some electrical work, and computer work at the children's home.

There's something about going to another country away from your family that makes you consider the idea of how you treat them. Maybe I'm the only crazy one, but I've had the thought of, "what if this is the last time I see them." I know and pray that that is an unlikely scenario, but it makes you take a moment and reflect on how you will be remembered when you're gone. For me it makes me want to be kinder, gentler, and more loving. I would challenge you and myself to treat your family every day as though it was the last time you were going to see them so noone's last memory of you is bad.

Anyway, if you wanted morbity you could have just watched the news and not read this. I am excited to go, but am fighting sadness at the idea of missing my family. I also pretty much hate flying so that makes me somewhat anxious which is another emotion I will fight with God's word. The older I get the worse I am about flying. Not sure why that is. Any psychologists out there can clue me in.

Hope to see you all soon and many blessings to you and your families. If you want to help Annie with our kids while I'm gone call 3195047986. God bless each of you!!!

The Big Egg Hunt at Student Connection!

We celebrated Good Friday in style with the first annual Student Connection Preschool Egg Hunt. First the little ones had a craft time and decorated paper bags for their eggs. Then we shared the Easter story with the young people so they could know what we were celebrating. They were very smart and had great answers to my questions.

Finally the big hunt began. The Lord blessed us with a dry morning. The air was warm and each kid got to fill his/her sack with candy and toy laden eggs. There were a lot of smiles and laughter. It was a fun time of fellowship for the many mommy's and a few brave dads.

God is good and it is fun to celebrate the Good News of Christ's resurrection in light of the fact that we by just believing in Him get to receive resurrection from the dead also. Thanks to Annie's hard work and planning we all had a great time and hopefully some little ones were able to hear the Gospel, maybe for the first time.