Hello all,
I just wanted to let everyone know that we made it safely to Guatemala. After a little bit of a delay in leaving from Houston, our travel was very smooth. We landed and made it through customs with no problems at all and then headed straight to the ice cream shop for triple dip cones...yummmm!!! Once we finished our ice cream, we jumped back into the vans and headed to New Life Children's Home. We had a brief orientation and then a tour of the facilities that will be our home for the next 7 days and nights. This place is really beautiful and the children's home is a great little place where 52 children reside. We got to meet them at dinner and they are incredible. Speaking of dinner, we had the first of our many differing styles of beans...according to some who have been here before, we are going to eat a lot of beans this week...yikes!! The meal was great and the coffee that accompanied was a perfect compliment. After dinner we headed out to go play with the kids. Soccer, volleyball, basketball...you name it and we played it. It was great to watch our students and adults jump right in and mix it up with the children here. I really think that this is going to be such a life changing week for so many of our group. Tomorrow we go to church in the city...it's a 12,000 seat auditorium and the service will be completely in Spanish so it will be an interesting experience for our little band of troopers. Please continue to pray for our interaction with the orphans here and that God will speak His love and grace through us despite the language barrier. Thank you for your continued prayer and support. We love and miss you all.
Guatemala Team '08
PS-this was the most comfortable place on the plane...I'm not sure that David Woodard could even breathe here.
I just wanted to let everyone know that we made it safely to Guatemala. After a little bit of a delay in leaving from Houston, our travel was very smooth. We landed and made it through customs with no problems at all and then headed straight to the ice cream shop for triple dip cones...yummmm!!! Once we finished our ice cream, we jumped back into the vans and headed to New Life Children's Home. We had a brief orientation and then a tour of the facilities that will be our home for the next 7 days and nights. This place is really beautiful and the children's home is a great little place where 52 children reside. We got to meet them at dinner and they are incredible. Speaking of dinner, we had the first of our many differing styles of beans...according to some who have been here before, we are going to eat a lot of beans this week...yikes!! The meal was great and the coffee that accompanied was a perfect compliment. After dinner we headed out to go play with the kids. Soccer, volleyball, basketball...you name it and we played it. It was great to watch our students and adults jump right in and mix it up with the children here. I really think that this is going to be such a life changing week for so many of our group. Tomorrow we go to church in the city...it's a 12,000 seat auditorium and the service will be completely in Spanish so it will be an interesting experience for our little band of troopers. Please continue to pray for our interaction with the orphans here and that God will speak His love and grace through us despite the language barrier. Thank you for your continued prayer and support. We love and miss you all.
Guatemala Team '08
PS-this was the most comfortable place on the plane...I'm not sure that David Woodard could even breathe here.
2 comments:
WOOHOO! Congrats on arriving safely! I'm looking forward to hearing all the wonderful stories of what God does in kids' lives, as well as in your lives. Again, congrats and good luck this week!
That is the funniest picture I've seen in a while. Your group picture looks great. Can't wait for more stories! Miss you all!
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