Iglesia Nueva Vida 4 year Anniversary & Bible Institute 2nd Year

 

It is hard to believe that New Life Church in Magdalena celebrated 4 years at the end of last month! We give thanks to God for his faithfulness. This is the word that kept coming to my mind the day of our celebration. See a few pics below of our celebration. We shared that day of all God has done over the last 4 years and here are a few things: 50 decisions for Christ, 45 baptisms, over 50 in our discipleship groups and this year we are in process of planting two more churches! Eswin pictured below with me in the service is going to be one of the planters!

We also started the second year of the Network's Bible Institute. The second year focuses on Pastoral Care. This is for leaders, pastors and future pastors to help prepare them for preaching, teaching, counseling and leadership. We have 11 students this year! Thanks for praying for these 11 students!

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! 

Serving the Community during COVID19

We have been mobilizing our team here both at Love Guatemala and Iglesia Nueva Vida to serve our community in this time of great need. The situation here is much like that in the states however here people have no savings, no extra, no credit cards to use, in most cases no family to lean on and so there are many going hungry. We have partnered with our friends the Steeds at Project for Hope as well and we have fed hundreds of families, given out bread, masks, eggs etc. You can check out more info and give here if you wish.

Here are a few pics of some of the things we have been doing:

 Some of our staff made some banana bread and delivered it as well to some of the kid in our feeding center. We are also using the funds that normally run the feeding center to buy food and divide it up and deliver to the families in the feeding center.

Thanks for supporting us and Love Guatemala so we can continue to serve the community in this way! 

 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me." Matthew 25:40