December 2025: Multiplying Blessings
Another month goes by with the Lord's mercies being new every morning!! Not long after I last published this blog, we went and served with the Salvation Army in the city of Tecpán, approximately 40-50 miles west of the school (though with the state Guatemala's highways are in, it felt a good bit further). We put on a show for the kids based on this Korean sketch , prayed over anxious family members in a hospital waiting room, and organized a crafting session for local women. Yet what gratified me the most was not any individual thing we did. Rather, it was the initiative the students showed. Whether it was native Guatemalans or recently arrived Koreans, everyone identified their role and rose to the occasion. Even having served on mission teams as such myself and being around some enthusiastic peers, I had never seen anything like what those kids showed me. It was a determination to love the Lord by serving others--and more importantly, to do the not-so-fun work (like painting...