(Written for ‘The Call’ CMS) I’m frequently asked, “What do you enjoy most about your work?” The answer is always the same: relationships with the people I serve and seeing their lives transformed. Often we focus on numbers but some impact cannot be counted. Relationship and transformation are not easily measurable, but they are what God is all about and are what he has been doing in me and through me in Guatemala. When I arrived in Guatemala I had …
It is a Monday morning in May 2020, lockdown has been our ‘norm’ for two months now and so many things are different, some are unfortunately the same and perhaps even intensified. I am with a work colleague and he is driving us through zone 1, one of the poorer and slightly more dangerous parts of Guatemala City. We are on our way to a ‘comedor,’ (food kitchen) where we will join with a small team to help prepare food …
Today marks the 11th day of Guatemala’s official lockdown due to Covid-19 and it certainly had a few unexpected events for me.I had arranged to meet with one of our youth at the centre to pass on the food and care package for his family, which he had been unable to collect when we gave them out the previous Tuesday.It was a lovely sunny morning, yet still fresh at 8:30am, so I decided to walk.To enjoy the walk more and …