Hola from Guatemala! Week One

Hola! Estamos en Guatemala! The Guatemalan team of interns safely arrived in Guatemala City Friday night. We are staying in the Buckner House in Guatemala City this week. One of the pictures is from the roof of the Buckner House. What an amazing view to wake up to each day!

Yesterday, we went to the Buckner Baby Home. This orphanage is a new baby home that is completely ran by Buckner staff. There are currently three children living there. Below you will see two pictures of the kids from the Baby Home. The interns were so excited to spend some time loving on those precious kids.

This morning, we went to church at La Verdad ("The Truth"). It was my first experience at an all Spanish church. It is so amazing to reflect on the fact that the God that we worship in English is the exact same God that we worshipped in Spanish this morning (as well as the same God that other interns are worshipping in Kenya, Russia, and Romania!!!). I think that sometimes it's so easy to put God in a "box" and minimize who He really is. However, God doesn't even recognize the language difference, because He looks at our heart. What a big God!

We met Bellcroft Church from Maryland this morning. We will be teaming up with Bellcroft Church this week while we do Bible School at San Gabriel Boys' Home. Here's a little background about some of the boys from San Gabriel. Several of the boys came from Elisa Martinez Boys' Home which was recently closed. As you can imagine, this was a very hard transition for those boys. There are many boys there that are sad and have broken hearts. It is truly Divine appointment that we planned many months ago to go to San Gabriel this week. It is our prayer that the boys' hearts will be open and excited to hear the Word of God. We have a BIG surprise for the boys on Thursday! More details on the next blog . . . :)

~Sheena