Land of the Living

I’m finally here to write a blog about what ministry has looked like here in Guatemala.

Honestly it’s hard for me to put everything about ministry into words, but I will do my best.

During our first week here some the staff took us to three different villages that have had little to no contact with Adventures in Missions, meaning that there are no relationships in these villages, there are no specific ministries or programs, and there haven’t been any world race teams assigned to these villages.

We simply prayer walked the three villages and then came back to the base and decided where we felt the Lord was calling us. For my teammate, Mary and I, it was clear that we were supposed to be in a village called Chimachoy.

Since that first walk around the village, I knew something was different, I couldn’t put my finger on what, but something was special about this place.

As we do ministry, right now for us that simply looks like getting to know the people in the community and building relationships with them.

Every day, we take a van up to Chimachoy, get out and walk to the dusty soccer field in the center of the village, stop and ask the Lord where we are supposed to go that day.

Then we follow.

If the Lord tells us to hike to the top of the hill, we hike, if He tells us to walk down and talk to people in the valley, we go down to the valley.

We have seen over and over, that God is placing people in our path to connect with.

That is ministry right now.

Walking in obedience of what the Lord wants us to do so that we can build a good foundation for things that we want to do in the future.

Every single day that I walk around Chimachoy I just thank the Lord, it really is one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen and I am just really thankful that the Lord has placed me in this village for the next year and a half. It is a beautiful place and the people there have beautiful hearts.

As we walked to the van the other day, after an incredible conversation with a young man in the village, the Lord gave me this word,

“Land of the Living. You are walking in the land of the living. The people have been asleep and it’s time that they wake up.”

I’M CLAIMING THAT!!

The people of Chimachoy are ready for more, they are ready to see the Lord in ways they haven’t before, and how lucky am I to get to be apart of what God is doing there! I’m so ready to see what the Lord does in and through this community!