Guatemala slideshow

If anyone would like to view an awesome slide show of our groups' Guatemala trip go to "The Queen B's" blog at www.thequeenb.typepad.com. She put together a great slide show from our trip. She posted it on 3/29/09 so you may have to scroll down the page a little bit to get to it, but it will be worth your time. I can hardly watch it without getting choked up!

I will try to over the next few days post some of my random thoughts from the trip each day on our blog, so stay tuned.

Walk Good!!!

dan

Guatemala 2009

Well like I said we made it back safe (for the most part) and sound from Guatemala. It was a totally awesome week! For those that do not know what we were doing there, I'll give a brief overview. We went on a short-term mission trip with a group from our church (33 people, 13 of them were children) to work in an orphanage. A family from our church is moving there in June to be full-time missionaries. We worked on doing a total tear-out and rebuild of what will become their living quarters for part of each day and then we spent the rest of each day just playing and loving on all the children in the orphanage (there are over 400 kids there). We took one day and went in to the old capital city of Guatemala, Antigua. I think every single person in the group cried the day we left, it was so easy to get attached to the children in the orphanage. The kids all have a nickname of "Velcro Kids". From the minute you get to the orphanage the kids will just run up to you and jump up in your arms and hug you as tight as they can.

We're back from Guatemala!!!

Just wanted to let everyone know that we all made it back from Guatemala safe and sound last night. What an awesome, life changing trip!!! I'll post more later w/ some photos.

Dan

3 days and counting...

Well we have three days until we leave for Guatemala. For those of you that haven't heard about this, here's the scoop. We (Ofelia, Katherine, Kalin, and I) are going on a short-term mission trip with our church to Guatemala over spring break. We will be working at the Casa Para Ninos Aleluya orphange. Our flight leaves Friday (3/20) morning at 6:00 am and we'll return the following Friday (3/27) evening around 9:30 pm. We'll be working on rehabbing some living quarters for a family from our church that will be moving down to Guatemala in June to become full-time missionaries. We'll be working on their housing in the mornings and then in the afternoons we'll be working with all the kids. This orphanage has around 400 kids (it's set up almost like a small town). Many of the kids have come from very abusive families. If you would like to see more about the orphanage, visit their website at www.casaparaninos.com. We'll take plenty of pictures and I'll post some of them once we return. Please pray for us to have a safe and meaningful trip.

Dan