The 2006 Year
click HERE to see individual team pictures and reflections
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The 2006 Team explores Antigua in their first week. There are many challenges and opportunities to grow and learn ahead. |  |
While getting to meet new friends and learning to work and live together is an obvious growth opportunity, perhaps the most growth happens because of the time we spend alone listening to God speak to us. |
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We all live at the Fuego campus and share in daily life stuff like kitchen duty. Here we get make pizza...yum! |  |
Here Tara has transformed the girls dorm into her little corner of paradise. We don't show a picture of the how the boys keep their place... but they do have a hammock too. |
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We live on a beautiful campus in a beautiful country. This is the view from the garden. On this morning there was frost on the tops of the volcanoes (Fuego, on the left is active). |  |
Here is the same view only with a sunset. The days are rich and full and filled with variety and adventure. |
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Nowhere is the beauty seen more than in the children. We have many opportunities to minister to them. |  |
Here Amanda has her hands full of little ones. |
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For her ministry site on Fridays, Sarah taught ESL at a local public school. Students also worked at a hospital, a school for handicapped kids, a construction project for the homeless and an orphanage. |  |
Here the guys are carrying steel to help build a home for a poor family living out in the bush. The girls were proud that they also proved to be tough enough to do it. |
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Our campus gives lots of space to hang out and share some of life with each other. |
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There are also opportunities for sharing thoughts on a more formal basis. David is sharing during devotion time in the morning. |
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Of course there is also class time. Here Trinity prof Ruth Anaya is teaching Anthropology. Other TWU profs Slava Petlitsa (Spanish) and Dr. Joanne Pepper (Missions) also teach with us for a month in May. Students take 18 transferable college credits. |  |
All work and no play ... means... "lets go to the beach!!" |
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We travel extensively around Guatemala. Here we are exploring the Mayans ruins at Copan in Honduras. |
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This is fun and also educational as we learn the background of the culture with its unique mix of Mayan and Spanish. |
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Our three missions trips take us to other parts of the country as well. Here we are using the 5 colours of the wordless book to teach the gospel in Tactic. |  |
We also help out local missionaries however we can. Rachel is packing the dirt as we work on the foundations of a new Christian school. |
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Worshipping with some of the children. |  |
Nikki certainly has their attention. You can't help but fall in love with the people here. |
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We go to local Guatemalan churches but have our own worship time on Sunday nights. Sometimes we got Juan Carlos and his band to come and play Spanish worship music with us. |  |
This is Melody with her Guatemalan family. Our students spend 5 weeks in homes and are accepted as part of the family. Students are nervous at first but in the end this time is a highlight. |
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Antigua is a great place to hang out and the weather is summer year around.We know where all the ice cream places are.. |  |
Our group in the back of a chicken bus. We
get quite comfortable getting around on our own. This is typical of how crowded they are.
So much for personal space.
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So this year we had our official team photo taken on a Chicken bus. We will miss each other mucho. It has been a rich and rewarding experience. |
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In the end, we built an altar in the mountains to remind us of the things we are taking with us from this experience, the things we are are leaving behind in Guatemala, and the things God has spoken into our lives. |
