Disaster Relief Project

Recently while out with our last mission team we encountered a group of people that had been burned out of their village. You can read about it HERE. We left them some care packages that day but felt that we needed to do more to help them get back on their feet. Jim contacted our Hunger & Disaster Relief office and got approval to do a disaster relief project for them. This past week we returned to that area and did the first food distribution.

To get the day started we met at Radio K'ekchi' with the leaders there to pray and decide what to do.

Hector, Regina, Salvador, Jose', Macario, Antonio, David, & Jim
We decided to purchase beans, corn, rice, sugar, and incaparina- a children's vitamin drink that is served in the schools here. This is Jim turning over the project to Bro. Jose'.

These four brothers went around town (Las Casas) and purchased all the food supplies. They also got a delivery truck to take it to the village. This is a photo of them waiting on the truck to arrive.

Once we arrived in the village we first had a time of worship with them before the distribution started. This is Bro. Jose' giving the message.

The people were very excited when the delivery truck drove up!

They brought everything into the church building and distributed it from there.

This Brother had a list of all the families and called them in one by one to get their food.
There will be tin delivered to these families on Tuesday and a final food distribution is scheduled for the end of September. Your donations to the World Hunger Fund helped make this project possible. To find out more about Human Needs Ministries and how you can help click HERE.

Southside- Dothan, AL Mission Team Day 3 (Part 2)

After praying at the store, the people there told us about another group of people who were living at the edge of town in make-shift housing because they had recently been burned out of their village. We drove down to visit them.

This is how we found them living. It broke our hearts.

There are 35 families living here
The team had prayed about making gift bags to possibly hand out to an unreached area. We made up the bags and prayed for weeks leading up to the team that the Lord would send us to just the right place to give them out.

This is Bro. Salvador handing out one to each family

The people were very touched that we visited them

After leaving that village we drove back into Las Casas and visited the Pastor's Study Center and Radio K'ekchi'.

Stephen, Shirley, & Jeanette outside of the radio station
Greeting Bro. Jose'
Inside the radio station. Each one gave greetings over the air

Stephen giving his greeting
They wanted us to sing something over the air as well. We sang "Blessed be the Name" in English & K'ekchi'. Here is a video of us doing that:



We then had a time of prayer for the radio ministry there

It was a great day. We saw a lot. We were able to pray for many and meet a few needs. We are still praying about how we can further help the people who were displaced. Please pray with us that the Lord would speak to our hearts about if and how we could assist them further.