We are here! Day 1 and Day 2

We are all here and in good spirits. Flights went well and arrival delayed by only one hour. Nicely settled into the dormitory above the Chinese Alliance Church. We visited a Guatemalan church yesterday where the service was translated to English so we appreciated that. We gave out the small toys to the children there.

Spent the afternoon in Antiqua which is a most beautiful old city. Then we had Chinese supper at a nearby restaurant and came back to hit the sack and catch up on sleep to be ready to work

We were so pleased to see the progress that has been made on the building in the last year. It has really taken shape and is now possible to see what a great place it will be for the national Guatemalan Alliance pastors and leaders to work from and advance the work of God and the Alliance in this country.

Today we did a lot of cleaning and organizing at the worksite, building saw horses, rebar bending station, setting up a pulley system, sweeping and getting rid of garbage. In the afternoon we began to move ahead with the work that will be done during this time. Rebar bending by Bruce and Larry produced over 100 forms, Gail and Therese shovelled a lot of gravel and Gail helped to send it on it's way to the third floor by the pulley system. Shanon swept, cleaned and straightened nails (and rested sore back quite a lot).

So now we are winding down for the evening and glad to be able to get on the internet and sent some info off to you. Thanks PAC for trusting us to represent you in this wonderful city. We enjoyed meeting many of the same workers on the job site as we worked with last year but also had the hard reality of finding out that one of the men who we so appreciated last year has fallen back into drugs and alcohol and so has abandoned his family.

Keep praying for your Pac team! Blessings on all of you!