January 25th and 26th

January 25th - Sunday

Up at 6am to begin the 2 hour trip to Taxisco to attend the service at the Alliance Church where Domingo and Edgar, two of our on-site workers go. We discovered that dispite the language barrier during praise and worship we serve the same awesome God. We sang our hearts out in English and they in Spanish when they layed the familiar "Open the Eyes of My Heart, Lord". Jake, our team leader, with the aid of Jose, our interpreter and driver, preached a sermon from Daniel, Chapter 3. After the service the ladies served us a delicious traditional Mexican lunch. The pastor then suggested that the Pacific Ocean was only 30 minutes away so guess what we did for the afternoon? Roasted in 98 degree weather on the beach!!

In the evening we attended the Chinese New Years Eve celebration with Joseph and Helen, and most of the congregation from the Chinese Alliance Church that is our home away from home. Sun neen fie lok or Happy New Year to each of you back home.

January 26th - Monday

We had thought that we would be constructing the second floor of an Alliance church for the national Guatemalan people. Instead we are building the Guatemala Alliance National Church(GANC) office and guest house, which will touch the lives on many Guatemalan people. The pastors from the various Alliance churches in Guatemala will come here for training and then return to their various villages to spread the gospel. Our driver, Jose, was back teaching school today so we had the privelege of being chaffeured by the President of GANC. You can see in the pictures that we have actually accomplished a fair amount on the building. None of the rebar beams were in place when we arrived and before we leave we should have all of them in place for the second floor.