Guatemala - Day 2

Today was a great 1st day! It is hard to show everything we did today due to how much we did but I hope this gives you a glimpse. Each day we begin with a personal Quiet Time, some corporate worship and a message from some of our leaders. It has been great just helping get our focus on the right track and to help us understand how we can be effective, especially how it pertains to the cultural differences, both in our language barrier but also just being white, upper-middle class people. Below is a glimpse:

I want everyone to know that every single person on the trip did an incredible job!!! They not only worked hard w/o complaining but was also very intentional with every single person there. It is so amazing to see the body of Christ all working together for a common purpose without any distractions.

Some other things that we've been working on is 'Asking the Lord'. We understand that living such a busy lifestyle where TIME is of the utmost important that so many times we can't find time to LISTEN to the Lord. We have been trying to understand what it looks like to live a life of solitude and how to wait patiently on the Lord. Some amazing things have happened tonight as we practiced on doing so. The Lord speaks in powerful ways and tonight the majority of our kids got to experience that. it was truly amazing.

Today was also one of our participant's, Cami Lowery, birthday! We were able to get a birthday cake along with a authentic handmade Guatemalan bag. We also were able to get a live band to sing 'Happy Birthday' to her. We didn't have any video cameras so we apologize that we didn't video it.

Well, time is very short so I apologize for my lack of thoroughness in my description of each day and in my grammatical errors. Know that God is moving in powerful ways in each of our kids and please continue to pray that He will continue to mold them in His image.