Give Food this #GivingTuesday!

Does a school meal really make a difference? Axel used to come to school sad. His stomach hurt, and he couldn’t concentrate in class. He dealt regularly with fever and diarrhea. Axel’s family didn’t have enough food to go around and he wasn’t eating regularly or well.  Providing a nutritious school meal to a student in Guatemala costs 83 cents. How Many Meals Will You Give? Thanks to God’s provision through wonderful people like you, Axel now enjoys a delicious breakfast at school before he starts his day. Each morning, Axel lines up at the school kitchen with a big…

Have you ever seen photos of friends hugging kids on a mission trip – or even hugged some kids yourself – and then wondered if it really makes a difference? Is short-term missions really worth it? Delmi thinks so. Delmi attended our schools as a child. She remembers receiving some of those hugs! We shared her story in our Fall Newsletter, and it made me cry. I thought you might want to hear Teacher Delmi share her story in her own words – of a childhood with no hugs, and of how God used her teachers, her sponsors, and teams who visited to…

Marco quit school this year. It’s not that the 12-year-old didn’t like school. In fact, he’d been doing reasonably well in his sixth grade class. But Marco couldn’t concentrate. His mom was sick and he was worried. She was having trouble doing the washing she takes in and collecting firewood – their only income, since his father had abandoned them last year. So Marco came up with a solution. He went to the principal to tell him he wasn’t going to continue studying. He wanted to help his mother work to help her earn a little money. Yes, in Guatemala,…