Adventures in Missions

                                                    Hillary & her team after installing stoves in the homes of families in need Last…

Here is Emilie Boland. She came to Guatemala to help impact lives; to her surprise she discovered the greatest impact was in her own life…                   Emilie during children’s ministry      …

When people prepare to go on a mission trip, it can be a pretty big emotional process. There’s all sorts of questions, perhaps the biggest one of all being one many of us can relate to: Have I absolutely lost my…

You never know what you’re going to find on a mission trip. Or what you’re going to do. Or what you’re going to eat.  It’s always a risk to go. But isn’t that the point? We show up with open…

Hello friends, family, and those along for the read! After several flights and one adventurous (eleven hour) bus ride, our teams arrived safely and happily in San Andres, Peten last night! Everyone is enjoying the good food, good company, and…

On our last day of ministry,  the team went to a local village in San Lucas.  This village is under immense poverty, most people live in homes that would be illegal to live in stateside.  No running water.  Dirt floors.…

Hi my name is John Hewes and I am with a group of missionaries in Guatemala.  Their names are Kimmie La Duke (who for some reason finds it really weird that I call her Kimmie), Michael La Duke, Patrick Hewes,…

   After a long, long travel day our awesome team from Washington has arrived! We greeted them at the airport with smiles and bottled water, all in anticipation of what this week would hold for them. Once we made it…

A crowd favorite from our trip was the time we spent in a local village in Chichicastenango. This village was outside of town, approximately a 30 min walk from any local store for food and drinks. There was ONE road…