September highlights   Being a World Race contact.   For 11 months I went on a journey around the world pushing forward the vision of the contacts I had.  In this season, our base has been blessed to receive a…

One of the foundational practices we have here at our base is “seeing people in the Spirit”.  The idea is looking beyond what we see with our natural eyes and to “see” people the way God sees them.  That, in…

Here are some highlights from the month of August:   A month of Hellos/Welcome Backs.   We welcomed a new team member, Angela Aston.   Angela has circulated in and out of our house over the last year and a…

    I was challenged by my best friend to do the #icebucketchallenge for ALS awareness.     I’m not going to do it.   Not to knock the people who have done it or to belittle the effect is…

Since coming to Guatemala, I have not consistently gone to church on Sundays.   Honestly, I have struggled to find quality teaching of God’s word.  Being that the messages are in Spanish has been a struggle as well.   Well…

If you follow my Instagram, you have probably seen me post a lot about our house-pup Misha.   Misha was rescued from the city dump, but, as my housemate Kacie puts it, “you can take Misha out of the dump…

One of the ministries I’ve been able to be a part of since returning to Guatemala has been with some of the local shoe shine boys.   In Antigua, there are groups of youth who make their living by shining…

One of my favorite relationships we have at our base is with a Guatemalan named Lorena.                               (Kristin Rene, Lorena, and I)   Our base first…

“Would you like to buy a bracelet?”   He said it with such a small voice.  He placed a handful of multi-colored rubber bracelets before me.   I showed him both my wrists, each filled and said “I have no…