All In A Days Work

Monday morning began with a group photo before we loaded the cars and started our day.

David, Regina, Carol, Jim, Bro. Miguel, Jane, & Wendall

Our first visit was to the village of Se' Pub. We didn't know until the very last minute that the village required a pretty difficult hike to reach. We thought it was close so we didn't take bottled water or anything (except the camera, ha). Here is a view from on top of the mountain before we climbed down. You can see the river at the bottom.

We went straight down the mountain! It was very steep. All I could say was, "I am going to have to climb back out of here!!!"

This is a view on the way down. The house we visited is in the bottom left corner.

Another view of the house
I was VERY happy when we arrived! The family that lives there are not believers but invited us to visit with them. We had members from a neighboring church hike an hour & 1/2 to meet us at the road and they then hiked down to the house with us. In K'ekchi' when you get somewhere you say "xoc'ulun" which means "we arrived". Boy was I glad to say it then. ha
When we arrived they served us a Kool-aid type drink in these gourds. I don't think we've had that happen before but Mrs. Jane says it was very common years ago. I thought it was cool and wanted to take mine with me but chickened out asking them for it.

I don't know if this picture really shows just how red my face was! I was also wringing wet!

We had a great visit there and expect God to do a great work among those people!

Well, what goes down must come back up. Here we are on the trail.

Once we reached the top we all had a time of celebration and prayer. We sang the hymn "Amazing Grace". It was a great way to end that visit!

This is the entrance to the 2nd house we visited in the village of Palmar. I love palm trees!

There are very few believers in this area. We prayed with these two girls in their home.

Isn't she precious!

There are many orange trees on this property and before we left one of the girls went out and picked us a sack full to bring home.

Mrs. Jane & Mrs. Carol

Our last prayer stop of the day was in the town of Cahabon. We stopped by the mission church there to pray for the pastor and his family.

The pastor's grandson, Franklin, was very sick so we were able to pray specifically for him as well. This is baby Franklin laying in a hammock.

When we left there we were three hours from Coban. We arrived home in the late afternoon, tired, but rejoicing about all we had seen and done in the last two days! Please continue to pray for the Cahabon region of Guatemala.

Cullman Mission Team Day 4

Sunday morning began with breakfast at the hotel in Lanquin. We then took our team photo. Here we are: Jim, David, Bro. Miguel, Phillip, Regina, Joyce, Michael, Stephanie, & Robert. We then headed to the Semuc Champey area and made our first prayer stop. We visited a home of some new believers and had a time of prayer with them.
It was rainy & muddy

The pastor from the Chi Poc area came there to see us as well as his family and a few members of his church. We were not able to visit his area so he came to us. He introduced me to his 7 month old baby girl. Her name was Regina!! That made me very happy. She is the 2nd Regina we have met so far.

Isn't she precious!! After our time of prayer, they fed us a Caldo breakfast along with tortillas and coffee
This is the pot of caldo
Some of the ladies making tortillas

We left that area and traveled to the village of Chi Pata. This is where we had our Sunday morning worship and Bible study time. These people are new believers as well and our visit really encouraged them. After the service they fed us caldo for lunch. We said our goodbye's and set out on our return towards Coban. Along the way we made two prayer stops to pray over sick people. The first stop was at this house where we prayed for a woman.

The sick lady with her family
We then stopped by this house to pray for a sick man

We made one more visit to pray for a pastor and his family before reaching Bro. Miguel's house. There the team met Bro. Miguel's wife and 6 out of 8 of his children. We had a time of sharing and praying with them before saying our goodbye's to him.

Bro. Miguel & Virginia

We returned to Coban where we stayed overnight.

Cullman Mission Team Day 3

Day 3 began with breakfast at McDonald's in Coban. Michael & Stephanie
We then picked up Bro. Miguel Chub and headed out on a full day of prayer stops. We traveled to the Lanquin/ Cahabon area. Our first stop was here in the village of Salac 1.

This is in the village of Se Asir

We visited the pastor and leaders here in the town of Cahabon.

In between these stops, we prayed for many unreached villages along the way. Bro. Miguel would tell us the name of the village, how many families lived there, and how many, if any, believers were there. It saddened all of our hearts to hear the names of the places in this area that have no evangelical work and the vast amount of lostness that is there.

We returned to the El Recreo in Lanquin for the night. This is the team having dinner there.