Mission Guatemala, Day 1

Posted by Josh Howerton on Apr 4, 2010 | Comments Off

Incredible weekend worship gathering yesterday celebrating the resurrection!  Unsurprisingly, it was (again) The Bridge’s highest attendance day in her history.  Later this week I’ll be posting on the Resurrection later today because there’s a lot of confusion about what The Bible teaches about Jesus’ resurrection as well as our coming one.  For now, we sent a mission team to Guatemala on Friday and will be getting a couple updates from them this week.

Here’s a Day 1 update from Lewis Thomas, the leader for The Bridge’s mission team…

The road to Hotlanta is becoming a familiar path. After only 3 short days home my wife and I are headed back to Guatemala once again.  God has been so very gracious in sending mission teams our way and we are grateful for the opportunity to serve. He provides everything we need including the strength to carry on. A group of seven from The Bridge, myself and the chief cook and bottle washers of a new company called Resounding Productions, Nashville, TN, are headed south for the week. Lights! Camera! Action….ACTION!!  With hearts to serve the Lord, they will be helping us by producing  a video of The Bridge’s work in Guatemala. Now that we’ve been properly introduced – on with the show.

We will be serving high in the mountains of San Marcos. Base camp will be Ojo de Aqua-8000 ft above sea level. Monday and Tuesday we will have Bible Schools and do food distribution in Armenia, a small village – 9000 ft. On Wednesday we will travel to Choanla, a village over 12,000 ft into the mountains. We will have a Bible School there and distribute food to families. As one might imagine neither of these villages receive visitors very often, especially not from the US.  Unless I am mistaken, neither area has ever had Americans come and serve before. The excitement of The Bridge team lifts my spirits. As we go we are praying for God’s hand to guide our steps. Thanks so much for your prayers. Pray for Donna, my lovely bride, and Lexie, our granddaughter, who fell last week and cracked her skull.  Pastor Ely (our Guatemalan contact) may have a tough week after chemo on Wednesday as he’s fighting cancer.

God is good and He is able! To Him be all glory.

Lewis

Bridge Family, pray for the spread of the gospel in Guatemala and for our team to be able to serve, equip, and partner with the church there.  Another post on the Resurrection coming later today…