Guatemala Thursday Guatemala Thursday Intro from longyear on Vimeo.   Above:  Orphanage with Ambrosio. Above:  Mariah helping some of the boys color. Above:  San Gabriel boys.  We stopped by here in the afternoon. For dinner we joined John and Emily Wiggins and took 4 orphan boys to...

Guatemala Tuesday After some long days the team slept in. As we were getting up we heard the town rocking with a parade just outside the hotel.  After the parade, we hit a late breakfast and helped set up for the dedication ceremony.  At 2PM a 3-hour service began.  We understood very little, but it was great...

Thin Dig this:  When Stephanie and I were in high school, Ray and Helen Elliott came to our church camp and talked about their ministry.  They said they moved into a village and started loving people and translating the New Testament into their language.  Starting in the 1950’s, it was...

Guatemala Monday Breakfast with about 30 other gringos followed by a ride on a “Chicken Bus” to Light and Life School in Saquil.  The school was built by Helen Elliott.  While her husband Bill worked on translation of the New Testament, she had a dream that school children would one day be educated and...

Guatemala Sunday After a short night, we headed to the Guatemala airport for a charter flight.  Nate made arrangements for a small plane to take us to Nebaj.  Above:  The small plane to Nebaj.  They wouldn’t let me drive.  Evidently you have to have some sort of license to fly one of these...

Guatemala update Hey everybody, Shawn here. Got a call from Jody earlier today indicating that their Internet is flaky at best so we might not see any updates from them until Wednesday. They are blogging the entire time, however, and will simply mass post everything they’ve written so far when/if Internet is restored later...

Guatemala Bound A small team and I will leave for Guatemala tomorrow.  We would appreciate your prayers.  Our mission is two-fold.  (1) To celebrate the dedication of the 1st new testament in the Ixil language and (2)  To meet with ministry leaders to see what investment exchange can make in...

Success in 3:42 There must be thousands of books on success.  If I read them all, will I be successful?  I know, I know: God wants us to be significant and not successful.  Whatever.  I want my life to be a success for the Cause of Christ.  I want to die empty of potential.  I want to be mega...

Grace . . . Carlos just turned me onto a great teaching from Louis Giglio called Fruitcake and Ice Cream.  If your not familiar with Louis, he is the founder of Passion and one of my favorite teachers.  In Fruitcake and Ice Cream, he takes a fresh look at God’s grace.  If you have time, listen to...

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