More Life Renovation...

 At our church plant we are in a series on Nehemiah that we are calling, "Called to Renovate." Nehemiah renovated the walls around Jerusalem but we are all called and invited into the renovation process God does in and through us. 

We have seen him do just this as over the last month we have seen 5 more people make public professions of faith through baptisms. Please celebrate with us and pray for Blanca, Hillary, Allison, Sergio and Guicho. Blanca is Hillary and Allison's Mother. God is changing whole families!

Here is a recent discipleship retreat we did as well where the Lord was working in hearts and lives as we talked about themes like forgiveness, temptation and how to live the new life in Christ.

Thanks for continuing to pray for New Life Church Guatemala!

 

Happy 3rd Anniversary to New Life Church!

 

We are grateful for the Lord's goodness in allowing New Life Church of Guatemala to complete 3 years of ministry! We have seen about 50 decisions for Jesus and 40 baptisms in these 3 years. We have over 50 people in our discipleship groups and we are finishing our membership process. 

Our band, when we started we used youtube worship songs ;-)

To God be the glory!

Family Pics January 2021

 

While Levi was here we had some family pictures taken. Its not easy to get everyone to smile but they turned out pretty good.

Levi's Birthday and Visit

 We are grateful that our son Levi and Janet (Jennifer's Mom) could visit us recently. Them being able to come was an answer to prayer. Janet contracted coronavirus 3 weeks before their trip. But praise God that she recovered and no one else in the household got sick. (Levi lives with her and her husband Tony) 

We had a good time with them celebrating Christmas, New Years and Levi's Birthday. 

We played lots of games..the question we asked every night after dinner was, "What are we playing?"

Hard to believe that Levi turned 18! We have two adult children. I guess that means we are getting old.

We had some pics taken while Levi was here...more to come.

Got to hang with some friends day after Christmas!

Levi bribing for kisses

It was nice to worship with all of the family even if we had to wear masks!

Had to sneak in cute pic of Grace!

Boys hanging out with the girls. They do a great job loving and taking care of them.

The whole crew...thanks to a generous Christmas gift from a friend we were able to take a trip to a local amusement park.

Jennifer and her mom.

We are grateful for family and the precious time we have with them which is not as much as we would like, but we take what we can get.

New Life Church Update

 God has been good in 2020 and He continues to use NLC Guatemala to see lives transformed. Even in the midst of the challenges that 2020 brought we saw God change lives. We had a dozen people say yes to Jesus and 11 people take the important step of faith of baptism. Here are some pictures of some of the great things happening at NLC.

Below is one of our discipleship groups that has grown this year and several are taking steps of faith.

This is a family that we visited and God is working in their family! The two girls in the middle were baptized this year.

These are a few of the baptisms this year.

We are so grateful for how God continues to work! Please pray for New Life Church. Right now we are in the process of starting membership and establishing more organization to prepare for future growth and multiplication.

This was the membership class we had yesterday. 

Birthday Celebrations, New Baby and Grandma Jane's Visit.

 

Here are a few celebrations and some pics from Ben's Mom's visit. We are enjoying time with her and hopefully Janet, Jennifer's Mom and Levi will be coming on the 24th.

We can't believe Jacob is 15! He is becoming a fine young man.

Jennifer and I still try and get out each week for some sort of date night. It is a necessary time to connect and enjoy each other in the midst of our crazy life.

Caleb and I did a visit to Indy for Levi's surgery in November. He is recovering well but appears that where he had the hole in the roof of his mouth is not staying shut again so pray that closes.

Our baby girl is 2 already! We had a fun time celebrating!

Mama Juana has enjoyed her visit. Here she is with another Juana she met at our church. You may remember her from this blog post where we shared how we built her a home.

We have an addition to the Love Guatemala family. One of our staff members Rosario had a baby a few weeks ago. She is beautiful! 

Thanks for all your support and prayers in 2020! We are looking forward to all God has in store for 2021!

If you would like to give a year end gift to our family you can do so here: www.loveguatemala.org/give and select "Kunkel Family" under areas to support. Thanks!