The Kunkel Family

Monday, July 13, 2020

The hands and feet of Jesus in difficult times...

God calls us to represent him and his kingdom on this earth to make it on earth like it is in heaven. This means we are called to all kinds of acts of justice to display the love of God and glorify him through our actions so that more might now him and more disciples made. One of the major ways we have been able to do this in this time is through giving out food. We have done a lot of this partnering with generous people who have given sacrificially to allow us to continue this. And also we have partnered with other ministries and churches here to hand out the food. Here are some pictures of these food deliveries.

We also were able to help 3 families with a better place to live...here is one of the homes we did.

Hard to see but their current home is in the background...I forgot to get a good pic of it.

This was paid for and built by Iglesia Nueva Vida!

Not much of a house but a lot better than what they had.

This is where they family goes to get water!

I did not get a good picture of the family but here are a few of the kids. We got to share the gospel with them and pray and leave a few Bibles. Please pray for them!

Check out a quick video of the house project here.

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.