Serving our staff

 One of the joys and responsibilities I have at Love Guatemala is to serve our staff. They are a great group of people who love Jesus and work hard to "give hope through the gospel and vocational training". Here are  a few things we have been doing to serve them, train them and support them in this time:

• Weekly Prayer and Devotional Times via Zoom.
• Weekly Mtgs mostly virtually with our team of directors to encourage and train.

• Carlos and Katie do regular training as well to serve and better prepare them. And sometimes they just have fun like yesterday...see a few pics below:

They had a competition making Noah's ark out of fruit.

Here is a fun devotional we did with the staff and students as well: https://loveguatemala.org/happiness/

This stuff along with lots of prayers and encouragement. Our staff has done a great job in this difficult season and I am very proud of them. 

House for Abuela Juana

 We did a visit about a month ago with one of the older ladies that attends our little church. Her name is Jane (Juana). She is a sweet lady with many challenges, but we were not aware of the housing situation until recently when we made this visit and found out where she was sleeping. We knew we had to do something to help. One of the values we have as a church is generosity and we are trying to teach our people to live lives of generosity and we have committed as a church to give away at least 50% of our offerings to help people like Juana, support missions and other needs and ways we can be generous. Check out some pics below of how we found her house and what her new place looks like. We were also able to get her a new bed. Gloria a Dios!

Her house was made up of old sheet metal with holes, dirt floor, plastic.

She just turned 77 years young.

Here is the work we did with our team of leaders from New Life Church:

Joel wanted to help and even gave some of his money towards it!

Our friends Eswin and Marvin bought and finished it up with a concrete floor. 

She did not want to move her few things back into her house until we came and prayed and dedicated it with cake and all!

Grateful for Abuela Juana! 

Birthdays and Anniversaries and more Kunkel Family Updates

 

Jennifer celebrated a birthday in late July. We had lots of chocolate cake (her favorite) and spoiled her a bit. She is an amazing mom, wife, lady, friend etc to so many. We are super grateful for her!

We had some fun and got her a cane for her birthday that she is holding here but hard to see. Luke escaped this pic as usual. 

We also got to go our for our 22nd anniversary. This was a special treat after 4 plus months of not being able to go out. I am grateful for this lady and our marriage. 

We also got to take the kids to Mcd for the first time in a long time.

Jake does a great job taking care of the girls. They love to go outside and swing!

This was a family worship time together with our friend Yeison.

Thanks for your continued prayers and support!