Saturday- 9/10 5:34 pm September 10, 2011

Hey all! We’re all back safe and sound from Guatemala ready to tell you all our adventures and the way God has moved us in the past week! We got through customs and immigration fairly quickly but got to the gate to find the flight delayed for 1/2 an hour. I’ll send another note just [...]

Friday- 9/9 September 9, 2011

Antigua was lovely, but it was a very fast visit. They visited the Carmelite convent (1721), followed by lunch and about 2 hours to shop in the local market. After a nap, they are enjoying a sumptuous meal at Hacienda Real, a Guatemalan steakhouse. The flight tomorrow leaves around 11:30 and Sally says everyone is [...]

Thursday – 9/8/2011 September 8, 2011

Today has been a long day of labor at Palencia Elementary and the travelers are working into the evening. The construction team has spent the day working to expand basic services – wiring lights and outlets indoors and installing a rain barrel and irrigation system for the garden. The teaching team was busy this morning [...]

Wednesday_ 9/7/2011 September 8, 2011

Today was mostly spent in travel. They had a smooth trip with lots of beautiful scenery. When the team arrived in Palencia just before dark, they immediately got to work at the local school with Randy leading the charge in constructing some much needed storage units. When I spoke to them about 15 minutes ago, [...]

Guatemala Travelers Report 4 – 9/5/2011 September 6, 2011

Text from Fred this evening: “We had a great breakfast al fresco (all 22 of us) next to the winding river pool complex at Amatique Bay resort before piling in the trucks to go to work. We stopped at a bunch of hardware stores looking for plywood — never could find what we needed. They [...]

Guatemala Travelers – Report 3 – 9/4/2011 September 6, 2011

Today was a full and exciting day for everyone. Fred says he and 8 others had to ride in the back of a truck holding on to the side for dear life as they sped over the unpaved mountain roads. They were thankful at least they weren’t perched on top of the construction equipment on [...]

Guatemala Travelers Report 2 – 9/3/2011 September 6, 2011

Sorry, folks. I’m a little late in corresponding tonight. The team was on the road most of the day. They left at 7:00 am and traveled in a convoy of 2 4×4 trucks and a very full 15 passenger van down the carriterra de el atlantico (central american hwy 9). They have been joined by [...]

Guatemala Travelers Report 1 September 6, 2011

The team has arrived safely and are getting settled into a church hostel. They are tired, but comfortable following a long day of travel. Fortunately, everything in the airports and customs went smoothly and following that they were taken to enjoy a delicious homemade lunch of soup and beef tortillas. This afternoon they drove to [...]

Update from NEST 3/2011 March 7, 2011

From: “Mary Mikhael” Subject: RE: Update on NEST Greetings to you and every good wish.  We had to postpone the seminars (for Iraqi leaders) till July when we have our Continuing Education Seminar for our former students, and when Dr. Bailey will be the speaker. We hope funds by the PC(USA) will be secured by [...]

Domestic Response to the Crisis in Haiti January 25, 2010

A Letter from John Robinson, National Coordinator for Presbyterian Disaster Assistance regarding the domestic response to the crisis in Haiti… Dear Colleagues in Ministry,  A few of you have inquired about the availability of PDA assistance in responding to the needs of the Haitian communities in the US in the wake of last week’s devastating [...]