Exciting News from Love Guatemala:

We have been serving  in Magdalena, Guatemala for just over 10 months.  We have seen God do some amazing things!  We have seen many people ministered to and shown love in Jesus name.  We have seen hungry people fed both spiritually and physically.  We have seen the schools grow, new teachers hired, new businesses started, lots of people visited and prayed for, people healed, and lives touched and changed for eternity. We are excited about the direction of the ministry and the impact it is making here.  This would not be possible without many people and churches involved in the movement God has started here.

We believe that God has just started to make his Son’s name and fame known here and that there is much more to be accomplished for the Glory of God.  There are more kids, young people and families that need helped both physically and spiritually.  The needs really are overwhelming at times, bu​t we serve a big God and we don’t want to limit his work.

We have seen the schools go from about 40 students last year to 63  and we are busting at the seams in all of the schools.  The Art School has 37 students, the Carpentry School has 12 students, and the Cooking School has 14 students.  All of the schools have waiting lists with students that wish to attend.  We want to be able to provide a place for all of these students, but it is not possible in our current location.

We believe God is leading us to continue to expand and minister to more people and students, and we need more space to accomplish that.  Here are a few things God is leading us to in the future and why we need more space:

1. Start a Feeding Center. - There are many kids that are malnourished and in need of healthy meals.
2. Start 2-3 more Trade Schools in the next 3-5 years and expand our current schools. - There are many people that have no option of going to regular school so these trade skills give them the option to learn a skill to help them break the cycle of poverty in their families.
3. Start a Business Training Center - We want to not only help people learn a trade but the skills necessary to start a business or work in a business which may include start up loans.
4. Plant a Church and Start a Bible School.  - There is a great need for a gospel centered and grace filled churches here locally. We want to have a church planting church which will start many more churches for years to come which will require a place to train Pastors and Church Leaders.

We have been looking at different pieces of property all over Magdalena.  We have found one piece of property that we believe will suit us well.  This piece of property has a great location located just outside of Magdalena between Magdalena and Buena Vista, a neighboring village.  We have kids from Buena Vista attend the schools as well so it is centrally located between the two and also closer to another town called Santo Tomas which is another location from which some of our students come.

This piece of property would give us enough space to expand and build a facility to house all of our current schools and give us enough space to continue to add trade schools as the Lord leads. (See picture above) It would give us enough space to start a feeding center and do much much more in the future.  The first step though is securing a piece of property.  The cost of this piece of property is about $25,000 and we have about $15,000 of this already through a year-end gift from our sending church and some individual gifts.

Would you consider being a part of this first step?  Here are a couple of steps you can take to do so:

1. Pray – Please pray that God will provide the funds needed to purchase this piece of land and that God will continue to increase our faith.
2. Give – Would you consider giving toward this to provide hope for many people here now and for years to come? We have a $2,000 matching gift on the table so take advantage of that and give to have your gift doubled up to $2,000. 

Thank You for your Support and Prayers!
Go here to give. (Please mark as "Love Guatemala Land")

Check out some more pics of the land and those that will be served on this piece of property 

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