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!

Birthday, Beach and Baptisms

 We are celebrating a few October birthdays. Here are pics from Caleb's 11th birthday. Hard to believe our baby boy is 11!

We were also grateful for some time away at the end of last month. We usually go with friends and rent a house but with Covid we have not been able to get away in over a year so it was great to be able to get away and relax. Below are a few pics.

This girl was a fish and would have lived in the pool if we let her.

Lots of pool time!

Enjoying God's Beautiful Creation!

The family with one extra below. Yeison who has served with us for two years but heads back to Columbia this weekend.

We are grateful that the Lord continues to change lives. Here are a few baptisms over the past month or so:

Thanks for those who pray and support all God is doing here! Love from the Kunkel family!

Baptisms, New Life Church and Old Testament Survey

 It has been a challenging season for our church (Iglesia Nueva Vida) as it has been for all churches. So we were excited to have our first service in over 6 months. We have seen God's faithfulness in many ways over the last 6 months but it was good to gather again as a church family. We got to celebrate baptisms and the Lord's Supper as well. 

I am so grateful for what the Lord is doing through NLC! I am hoping to install Carlos as the Pastor of this church in the not to distant future and then move on to plant another church in another community. Please pray for this transition. 

We also did a half day Old Testament Survey class this past Saturday that was a lot of fun. I was encourage to see over 20 people learning together on a Saturday morning.