Guatemala Team Reports

A few days have passed since most of our team deplaned at Sea-Tac International late Sunday and resumed our day-to-day lives.  Odila and Bilhan, our mother-son pair, return today after staying an extra week to visit family in Guatemala and Read More …

The team is well out of Barillas now as we piled in the bus shortly after our 5:30 a.m. breakfast at the mission house and climbed the twisty, bumpy road out of town. It rained hard last night, just as Read More …

A regional teacher’s strike means no school this week for the children of Piedras Blancas, but somehow word got out that the Marine View team was passing out gift packs and dozens of kids turned out in the school courtyard Read More …

The team broke into five teams today and started the work that we all came to do – install stoves in the homes of the village of Piedras Blancas. We also teamed up with Hands for Peacemaking staff and village Read More …

 Today’s post will be more in photos than in words as it is very late and all of the team but your blogger is fast asleep. Suicidal bugs have found their way under the mosquito netting and are being squished Read More …

Greetings from Barillas! It took us an extra long time this trip to get here. Our flight left just after midnight on Thursday, arriving three and a half hours later in Houston, where we grabbed breakfast during our three hour Read More …

The 11-person team that will board an airplane at near-midnight tomorrow (April 12) to begin the first leg of its 10-day trip to Guatemala is a mixed lot – ranging in age from the 30s to the 70s – all Read More …

A drizzly April day didn’t dampen our team spirits to assemble in northeast Tacoma to get our supplies in order and stashed in nine big suitcases and a duffle. Today was kind of a capstone in our mission to as Read More …