The Kunkel Family: June 2020

Monday, June 29, 2020

Training Pastors, Church Planters and Missionaries...

I was so excited that we were able to begin training some future pastors and church planters in a more official capacity this past January. When we began New Life Church we begun in partnership with the New Life Network. This has proved to be a very important and helpful relationship. They have provided many resources, leadership and support! One of them is the New Life Bible Institute that you can read more about here.

We started in January and then, well then COVID19 started and it put us behind a bit, but I am grateful that this past Saturday we started back up although different. We have 10 students here in Guatemala with more than 50 students in total. Here are a few pics from this past Saturday.

We are excited to see how the Lord uses this institute here in Guatemala and in all of Latin America. The first year is focused on church planting and the second on pastoring a local church.

We are also praying and planning for a training center here in Guatemala to train Latino Missionaries! Please continue to pray with us for these new projects that God may be glorified!

Monday, June 15, 2020

8 years in Guatemala...

It is hard to believe that we have been here in Guatemala for 8 years. Here is a little of God's story in our lives over the last 8-10 years.

Our church had been sending teams and partnering with different missionaries in Guatemala for a few years and Jennifer decided to join one of these teams.

Through this trip she fell in love with Guatemala and the work of Carlos and Thelma and especially of the cooking school which was just getting started.

This is a bad pic but only decent pic of our first trip down together Jennifer and I with our pastor. After this we knew God was calling us to move and later that year in June we sold all our stuff and moved our family to Magdalena, Guatemala. A little more about this call and our first post on this blog.