It's good to see everybody. Thanks for joining us. We're getting started a couple minutes late. We're on Calvary time today, so if you guys will go ahead and stand with us, we'll pray and we'll get started.

Father God, we just we thank you for the day. God, we just thank you just for another opportunity to be here, Lord God, to serve you, to worship you, Lord, to spend some time hearing about your good works, Lord. Father, we ask that you bless this time, Lord, bless the worship, Lord, and just bless the message that goes out today, Lord, a message of how you brought hope to people in Guatemala, Lord God. And just let us leave different and change, Lord. Let what you did resonate in our hearts, Lord. We love you, Father, and we praise you. In Jesus' name, amen.

And you guys can go ahead and have a seat if you like.

Yes, Lord, God, every tongue will confess that you, yes, Holy Spirit, come, come rest in this place this morning.

God, we just give you praise, God, just for the fact that we are here, Lord. You deserve the praise. Lord, you formed us. God, you gave us our first breath. You were by design.

So, Lord God, help us to use the breath in our lungs to return praise to you this morning.

So, so, you sat out last darkness. You took grace that's mine today that Jesus Christ has won. So I can face tomorrow for tomorrow like you always have stayed. The sea is raging.

You'll fix my eyes on Jesus Christ. I'll say that it is well. Just thank you, God, for the victory that is in you, Lord God. Lord, we know that you're coming again one day, Lord. And in that day, Lord, we will be saved. Lord God, we will obtain that ultimate victory, Lord God, over sin, over death. Lord God, over everything, Lord, over the world.

Lord, we just thank you for what you're doing. Lord God, we thank you for those that were able to go to Guatemala this year, Lord God. For the witness and for the testimony that they have. Lord God, for the works that you're doing there because of that. Lord God, as they come up today and share their testimonies, Lord, I pray that, God, that you would just speak mightily through them, Lord.

And Lord God, just open our hearts and our spiritual eyes to see you and what you're doing, Lord God. And who you are and what you've done for us. We love you and we praise you. In Jesus' name, amen. Let's go ahead and have some fellowship.

This morning, I'm so glad y'all can be here. Today's kind of a special day for us to hear some good news about Guatemala. But before we begin, we'll do announcements. And before announcements begin, I'm going to have Lisa Holland step up. She's got something to share regarding the Calvary Ladies event that is coming soon to a theater near you. Not a theater, but you know what I mean.

Sorry, I was supposed to be up here. We're trying to get things ready for the Guatemala presentation. Okay, in Hebrews 10, it says, Let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another and all the more as you see the day drawing near. And I think we're seeing that day drawing near.

So the important thing is, is that we are to be encouraging one another. Well, Aaron and I were together one day and we were talking about how fun it would be. We have so many ladies studies, which is wonderful. But we have things like VBS where we get to serve alongside one another. But then we all go home and we do our thing. And then we don't get to like rub shoulders and get to know each other more.

So we were talking about how it would be fun to do a fun ladies activity. I do well to write my name legibly. So I can do this little ladies activity, just so you know. Like I'm going to paint my numbers. Type of thing. So this is for all levels of creativity. So ladies, if you are super creative and you can see an art project and you can do it, hey, this is great.

If you are one that you need, if you need guidance, even people like me can do it. So hey, come do it. You'll have fun. It's a fun time. We're just going to be making those beautiful signs that you put on your doors. Some of you may not. You may say, hey, I don't really need one. That's okay. Think about Christmas. Think about maybe a neighbor or friend that you have.

Or maybe one of the ladies or people in the church that you might want to make one of these signs for. The biggest thing is, is it's just a time of fellowship. We're looking for ladies 12 years and up. Bring your own drink. I think the announcement says bring your own drink. It's Robin Tackett. Robin is a sister in the Lord from Arc City, First Baptist. She has, we all, all of you Arc City people that have been around for a while, it's Becker Tires, she has a nice little area in there and it's set up, she'll have all of her wood pieces cut out and ready, everything will be set up, but she has to have your RSVP, it's not us, she has to have your RSVP in by July 28th, so that way she has all of the supplies for you.

Now, we've heard some say, I don't know how to do the QR code, I don't know how to do that, that's okay, come see me, I'm in that booth, I'll try to pop out in between services or talk to, if you talk to some younger people, younger people know how to do QR codes, people have had to teach me how to do them. But it's just basically, you're just giving your information, you're signing up for whichever sign you want to make, and then she does cash and Venmo and different things, but you do not pay until that day. It's a great time, it's a wonderful time to get to know each other, and I just encourage you to come on out, bring a friend, have some fellowship, I said, so how many is too many?

And she said, I've had classes like of 70 women, and I was like, but I think it'd be great if we had 80 women, so let's do it, let's have some fun and we'll see you August 3rd. I know it's fair day, I know it's fair weekend, but we can still have fun in fellowship, so we hope to see you then.

Thank you, Lisa. Okay, other things in our bulletin, if you would, if you want to open them up, the Kansas Bible Conference in Calvary Chapel in Johnson County is August 1st through 3rd. Ryan is actually speaking at one of the sections of that, if you would like to do that. It's a free event as far as I know. And then on the 11th of August, we have our baptism event, and more details to come on that, where and what time.

September 13th through the 15th is the women's retreat. That is in Wichita, Calvary. It is on August 10th. There's a $50 deposit at the time that you register, if you would like to. The website is underneath there for what is going on. Okay, so today is a great day for Calvary Chapel and for these folks sitting up here in front that get to share what happened on their missions trip to Guatemala.

So let's pray real quick before we begin that. Heavenly Father, Lord, we thank you so much for the day that you have made. Lord, thank you for. Your heart for missions, Lord, that spills over into us. And Father, as we go out and spread your word, may we just continue to be that salt and that light to a world that's very dark. Father, we thank you for these people that committed to their time, committed their time to reaching out to others in another country, Lord, and just pray that they were a blessing.

And Lord, as they come up to share, Lord, just may your Holy Spirit hover here, speak through them. Lord, what do you want them to say? And may we receive that and be a blessed congregation in Jesus name we pray. Amen. And with that, I will invite the crew for the Guatemala mission trip to come on up.

Good morning, everybody. We're going to start with a little skit that we did down in Guatemala every at every little village we visited. I'm sorry. I'm getting directions. We we wore these. Costumes so that we kind of looked the part we we did the Good Samaritan skit. That was kind of what started things out for us and kind of got everybody having some fun because we're pretty funny and this is pretty cool.

So I'm going to step back here so you can enjoy the skit. We are what we did now. I spoke just out loud, but we had a translator who was translating because I don't speak Spanish. So anyway, that's the only thing missing right now is our Spanish translator. But we we just started out with this story and it said, and behold, a certain lawyer stood. Up and put Jesus to the test saying, teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

And he said to him, what did it? What is written in the law? How does it read to you? And he answered and said, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind and your neighbor as yourself. And he said to him. You have answered correctly. Do this. And you will live. But wishing to justify himself.

He said to Jesus. And who is my neighbor? Jesus replied and said, a certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho and he fell among robbers and they stripped him and beat him and went off, leaving him half dead. Dead man. So invite a certain priest was going down on that road. And when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. And likewise, a Levite also, when he came to the place and saw him pass by on the other side.

But a certain Samaritan who was on a journey came upon him. And when he saw him, he felt compassion and came to him and bandaged up his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them. And he put him on his own beast and brought him to an inn and took care of him. And on the next day, he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper and said, take care of him. And whatever more you spend, when I return, I will repay you.

Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the robber's hands? And he said, the one who showed mercy toward him. And Jesus said to him, go and do the same. The end. Okay. And what was really neat was when we finished doing that, the one of the ladies who is part of the missions team actually gave a little presentation that talked all about that.

And about just showing compassion to those in need. So I hand this over to the wise men. Let's go ahead and get the slideshow up. I might say that we did that skit every day. And it was always a lot of fun. But the kids were listening and, you know, we had a Spanish translator. And the person would follow along with Alan, as he gave the verses, but the kids were just, they were so focused.

Because you know a lot of these kids had never seen, well I guess they had seen Americans in the past. But I don't know if they had seen an actor, something like what we were doing, but it was really riveting for the kids to see. And this guy always did, he always did a great job of acting. ắt show. Do we want to do we want to introduce our team here? So my name is

Joe Palmer, Danielle Palmer, and Alan Brooke, Janna Lumbert, Ross, Phil, Jack Richardson, Ginger Baruth, Janice Richardson. Do you want to go ahead and narrate some of these slides or you want me to? Okay so this this is where we stayed. It was called Casa Mi Padre. It's my father's house and it's a it was a very beautiful place in the middle of what wasn't wasn't that nice of a place

where we were staying but this place was very well fitted and it was it was put together by a family who set it up for missionaries to come and stay. So it was kind of dead little bunk beds and nice hot water every day and a great place to eat. We were fed well. We were fed well. When we stayed. So this is the picture of the front. There we are the volcano where

the volcano a bunch of lava field that had erupted. We went there and got a picture. This is our whole team. Okay who's all there? Hang on a minute. I'm going to introduce the team that we worked with to you guys. The first guy on the right is is Mark. Mark Mark is his own. Well there's four different missionaries involved in God Said Go. Mark is one of them. He's the one that

he and his wife actually just moved back to Florida. I believe they have a 17 year old daughter who's getting ready to go to college. And so Mark is integral part of the team but he's back in the States for a bit. His heart is definitely to get back to Guatemala. He his wife had been down there for 15 years I believe it was and their their daughter wants to go to college and the only way she can get

scholarships and go to college free is to come back and live in the States for a year. Otherwise they have it set up for her to to get schooling for free if if they come back. Yes his daughter is adopted. A Guatemalan little girl that they adopted. He I can promise you he will be missed. I don't know if we want to tell Mark's entire story. It is a long story. Mark had an accident. Mark had an

accident down there when the as this is something that you've got to just see to believe. But there are motorcycles absolutely everywhere. They're like mosquitoes. They're there everywhere you look. There's just there's swarms of motorcycles and it's it's their motor transport. And there'll be a whole family sometimes on a motorcycle. You might see four or five people on one. Everything's little 100 cc's and 125 little little

bikes. Anyways Mark is a veteran. He's been down there for many years. A veteran of the place. I mean he's been down there for so long. And the legal systems a little different in Guatemala. It's it's something that most people don't you don't understand what you have here until you go to a place like this. Down there you're guilty until proven innocent. Okay and in

his case that they were on their way to a mission on their way out to a village one morning. And there was a motorcyclist coming. They drive on the right side of the road just like us. And there was a motorcyclist in the in the the right side coming at him with two people on it, and they were coming around a curve. So he went around the curve, and as he saw the motorcycles, he tried to go out around

them, and as he tried to make clearance for the guy to get by on the passenger side of his vehicle, the guy turns right in front of him. Anyways, the motorcycle went completely, hit the windshield of his pickup truck, if you can imagine how hard it hit. And anyways, there was a death, and he was arrested and taken to jail, and if it hadn't have been for his mirrored, he had a camera on his mirror, if it hadn't have been for that, he might still be in jail in Guatemala, but he had a camera system on the mirror that videoed the whole thing, and I won't bore you with all the stuff, but in the last day, the judge actually got to see the video as they were trying to portray. He was guilty, but the judge said, where did you get these pictures?

It came from the video. He said, let me see it, and the judge watched the video, and they said, you can go. And so he got to leave, but as a result, he didn't want to drive for quite some time down there. It was quite traumatic because the man died under his vehicle. Anyways, Mark, he's back to driving and was back in the mission field. But. We'll move forward to what they said there.

They were actually moving out. And then the next couple, most of you know the next couple, Jeff and Esther, just the next two people there in the blue and the white, they were here, what, a year, January of this year? Yeah, January of this year, they were here, and that's God said go. So they were the ones that set this all up for us to go down. Who next?

We don't actually go back to that slide. If you could, I can't really tell who's. We should. We should talk about this is Raquel right here. This is our team. As you can see, this is Raquel and her husband, Julio, right here. Julio didn't speak a lick of English. I don't think if he did, he kept it to himself. Yeah. Smoke. Okay. Anyways, Raquel is from England.

And she had moved. What was her story?

Yeah, I think she'd been there for 20 years. She met him down there when she came down to do missions, and they got married down there. So, and what's the name of their, we can give you the information. They have a group that funds them. And then this is Jeff. And this young lady was just a nurse, right, that was helping us. Sean. We already introduced. This is Sean.

Yeah. Sean. And he's the other missionary. So that was the team that did all the work. Mark. Mark is a driver. He speaks. He's fluent in Spanish, knows the place backwards, and he commands. He's, I don't remember. Driver and slave driver. Yeah. He, boy, I tell you what, we're leaving at 6, and, you know, he's there at 545 and says, get in the truck, you know, we're out of here.

So he didn't want to wait around. And then Sean has, he's. He's a veteran who. Sean's been there three years, I believe. And he's actually still in Spanish school, intense Spanish school. And he's learning it well. But he has a very strong heart for the Guatemalans. And he's out there to serve the Guatemalan people. Next slide, please.

So this is about what our morning looked like every morning. We would have breakfast in this room. And then Mark would show up. And reinforce the schedule that had been laid out. So, you know, when we needed to be in the car in 10 minutes, he would give us the eight-minute warning and the five-minute warning and the two-minute warning. And then you better leave.

And then he left. Yeah. So that is one thing that is kind of, I think, going to be tough for that team until they find somebody that. Find a backfill for Mark is Jeff's going to kind of have to step into that role of, you know, being the I don't want to say backbone, but being the the driving force of getting people where they need to go. And Mark just was a great administrator and really good on staying on top of things.

I would say that God said only has three or four teams like us down there every year, and which is partly why they wanted us to do kids ministry. We had wanted to go down and do service work, but they were more excited about us getting out and ministering to the kids. And so it was it was not what we expected, really, when we signed up. But it was a super big blessing.

I would say one story. We're sitting there one morning eating breakfast or maybe it was in the evening. I can't remember. And I said, I said, you know, this this camp really isn't much different than like Prairie Prairie View Christian camp or something like that. And then Danielle says, yeah, except. The eight foot walls in the concertina wire. I don't know if you can see the guard dog every night.

They had this was a very gated, secure community for us. We stayed roughly two hours away from where we ministered every day. And it was a drive. You'll see more of that in a minute. But they do that for our safety. And also, they don't live too far from from this. My father's. So I might say there was concertina wire and a big wall, but none of us ever felt unsafe.

There was there was no indication of any of any danger at any time and anywhere. But they everybody has that around their places. Their property is well protected just to keep out would be robbers. Yeah. You had to be in bed by 11 and not up in your room by 11 and not up before five because there was a Rottweiler that they had. They let out and you'd hear it running past your door and making the rounds.

I thought it was a person going by and it was that dog. Who's outside? It's a dog. They said it was nice, but they said don't test it. So so we kind of have this broken down a little bit. By each village that we went to every day. So we kind of start with the slide that shows the route there to the north is kind of where we were. We were staying and if you follow that line down on kind of the south west there is one of the villages that we are one of the medium sized cities that we drove through every day to go to the different villages.

A squint law. Yep. So we drove through a squint law and then usually headed off to the southeast kind of like that. A lot of the villages were kind of in a similar area, which when you're driving once you kind of. Head southeast, it feels like you're going to a completely different place every time, but I think bird's eye view there, they're somewhat close.

So the first village that we went to, um, how do you, how do you pronounce that? Last Marias. Yeah, I can't quite see it. So you can go to the next slide. So the first village that we went to was, I would say, kind of the nicest infrastructure that we saw in any of the places that we ministered. To, so we actually got to go into their school. This was kind of their school, um, gym playground area, which part of what God said goes vision is for their, their main mission is a medical clinic.

And the vision for the medical clinic is not, um, just to take care of the people in need, but to bring them into the local church. That's, um, So they're, they partner with pastors, they partner with churches, really any of the places that they go on a, um, scheduled routine basis is in, is in, um, a church in the village so that that way, um, people can really see why they're there and can partner with the, with the local churches. This one, um, there was not a church in this village, correct? There was no Christian church, Christian church in this village.

Yeah, right across the, um, street from where we're at, there was a large Catholic church, but the way it was explained to us was Jeff and Esther never saw anybody really doing much there. There was, um, definitely a Catholic presence, but it wasn't super active the way, the way that it really sounded. Yeah, Catholicism down there is, uh, of course has been embedded for many, many, uh, centuries. Right, since, uh, Spain was there and, uh, they, they have blended Catholicism with the Mayans, uh, Mayan rituals.

So depending on where you're at, the farther out you get, the more Mayan the, uh, uh, I guess the, uh, worship would be. And it's, it's a long ways from Christianity, as you can imagine. There's, there's, uh, sacrifices of chickens on the altar and blood on the steps, stuff like that. But as you get closer, you get more conventional Catholicism as you get closer to town.

We got to talk about this one. The last one you saw with the books, this was the only place where we set up a lot of tables. Uh, we had like 12, 10 stations, because each one of us were manning a station. And, um, we didn't do the clinic this day. Um, and so the kids don't get to see books. They don't have books in their home. And, uh, Rachel had been given a lot of books.

And so she really wanted to subjugate. She set up this book table. The kids loved it. You can go ahead and go to the next one. The roads. Who wants to talk about the drive?

The roads are quite interesting. The roads, when you're in the city, they're crowded. Motorcycles everywhere. Um, bumpy.

Unlike Arc City, but a lot worse than Arc City. You know. More narrow, but as you went out to these different missions, towns, you got into four-wheel drive country. And I'm not talking gravel roads. I'm talking four-wheel drive country. And it's pretty wild. We had a, we had two pickups that were four-wheel drive. And we had the main vehicle that hauled us around.

Which was a van, a big van, with no four-wheel drive. And low ground clearance. And so you were bouncing around quite a bit. Um, but they were very good at their driving. And, um, a little quicker than maybe some of us would have enjoyed. Because, you know, when you start bouncing around in a car and you aren't the driver, sometimes it doesn't sit too well with your speed.

You're just having a bad stomach. Yeah, Jack's hiding here. Yeah, at one point, uh, Mark was driving a really nice black, uh, brand new four-wheel drive black Toyota. And Jack had a little upset stomach. And, uh, well, I, I, I, I, you know, these, it's like going to a rally race when you're driving with these guys. I mean, it's like, they're, on the way home, they're, they're zipping back and forth on the roads.

You know, you're going up mountains everywhere. There's not a straight road. There's very few straight roads, unless you're out on the, on the international highway. Most of the roads that we're taking are back roads. And they're, they're, it's just switchbacks back and forth. These guys go as fast as they can. Just, you know, everybody's riding like this when you're going around the curves.

You know, trying to, you get, you work on your stomach muscles, you know, as you're, as you're holding. And, well, Jack couldn't, I don't know what, Jack couldn't take it. So he made it to the window and, uh, left, he, he put new racing stripes down the side of this black truck. Mark didn't let him forget it the whole time we were there. You had to hold on to the Help Me Jesus bars.

We, we ran over a boulder in one place just to, uh, to, I know that we'll probably talk about this, but in one place we, the roads were so bad, speaking of bad roads, we, we rode, we, you know, there was weeds growing. I mean, they're, they're, they're right up against you and we're going around, we're up in the side of a hill and we're going around this road and we're bouncing as we go around the corner. Um, he couldn't see it. Uh, Julio couldn't see it.

But there was a boulder that was like a medicine ball. Okay. It was bigger than a basketball, but it was very round. I just got a glimpse of it after we left, but it was, and it was in the weeds. And as he goes around it, he had his wheel turned because he was turning to the right as he goes around the corner. And that medicine ball, if you will, big rock went right under behind the wheel.

Okay. So the vehicle went up on top of it and he drove around the corner and you could feel us going around that boulder as it went through and rolled up the back. And it actually rolled. The side of the vehicle up over the door. We didn't know that till we tried to get out and the door wouldn't open. We, it actually like a can opener in reverse. It had sealed the door shut and, uh, uh, we, they had to go back and get sledgehammers and hammers and chisels and drive that back.

It was a rental car, so I, I can imagine what they're going to say. What happened? Anyway, go ahead. Back up one slide. Yeah, back up one, a couple.

You want to talk about McDonald's? Oh, I can talk about McDonald's. So the McDonald's and Guatemala, they have fried chicken. The fried chicken is good. They serve a bunch of hamburgers too, but there's a lot of cool things. They had swing sets out there. There was a seesaw in a Y shape out there. And then, like, there's a bunch of like the McDonald's characters sitting on benches out there

that you could take pictures with. But it was just really cool. And I met a little girl there and I played around with her almost the entire time. She's in the picture right there next to Esther. Oh yeah, there she is by Esther. She joined us. Esther was so excited to take us to McDonald's and we're like, okay, cool. Um, this was not McDonald's in the States.

There was a McCafe with like cheesecakes and cakes. And gourmet salads. And then you walk into this old building in Antigua and there's like courtyards and it's all McDonald's. A whole separate building was the play place and vaulted ceilings with wood beams. Like, I mean, it was crazy. It was a really neat experience actually. So I've eaten at McDonald's pretty much all over the world.

And it's one of my favorite restaurants in the world, which I know is odd. But this McDonald's is the nicest McDonald's I've ever eaten at in the whole world. I think Esther said it was like number three. It was like number three in the world or something. Yeah, it's like, so for a country that really has very little, it's amazing that they have the nicest McDonald's in the whole world.

And it really truly was the nicest McDonald's. It was like a nice evening out. Outdoor seating, outdoor lighting. So, um, they've got, they've definitely got something on us. And this was the only time that we went out in the evening, um, at all. They fed us back at the compound, I called it. Um. And so it was great to get to go out and enjoy this, uh, beautiful weather.

Now, one thing, you know, when you're in your rooms down there, there are no screens on the windows. Uh, the only time we saw bugs and mosquitoes were out in the very, you know, I call it, we really were. We talked about the roads. The roads were great. We drove about, usually about an hour on good roads. And then we'd get off and we would go to the uttermost parts of the earth, literally.

I mean, where he's talking about the rocket is we're on a one-car trail that goes off into nowhere, you know. You, you really are going to a village that, uh, usually these villages were farmers' villages. These, these people work for a farmer who pretty much, they're almost like indentured servants, you would say. That's, they eat because this farmer pays them.

And they have farmers that want, uh, to, you know, bring a church in. Uh. And, and are very generous in that respect. They give them the land for a church in some of these places. And, and, well, day three, I think, is coming up. They're going to show you, uh, literally you're at the end of the road when you get to the village that we went to. Um. But, yeah.

So this, this is the, uh, the second day. And, and here they had a school. And there was kids, uh, here in the school. You can see the classroom there behind Danielle. And, uh. The, the, the classrooms there are little bitty things. They're like a, a bedroom, if you will. And, but they did have this common play place out in the center. And, and one of the highlights of this, you know, is, is, is we're, we're there on a medical mission.

Right? We're there to, uh, you know, to, to serve the medical needs. And that's what Jeff and Esther do every day. But while we were along, we got to go play and entertain the kids. So, and, yeah, Ginger did the, did the medical work there. And, uh. And, and you had a clinic set up here, right? You had a clinic set up here right behind the school. Right? And you can, you know, tell about where that was at.

But here we, this is, this is the group of kids we had. So, you want to tell about what we did there? So, I would say every village that we went to, um, Rachel is the head of, like, their children's ministry. Rachel and Julio. Um, Rachel's, or their vision for that really is to go into the churches that Jeff and Esther are serving. Um, the medical needs of the community.

And they're, um, helping out with more of, like, the pastoral needs of the community. So, they, um, Rachel would come in and work with whoever was kind of the, the head person over their children's ministry. And a lot of them don't have any kind of children's ministry. So, she's encouraging them to invest in the next generation of the Guatemalan people. Starting with, uh, starting with these kids.

And most of the time when the medical clinic's going on, Rachel's just working with the leadership of the church. Um, going through material with them. And, um, just talking through different, um, training topics and that kind of stuff with them. Hold on just a second. Don't, don't go past this slide yet. So, it's a little bit different whenever we were there.

Because then she had the manpower to be able to put on kind of almost like a, a demonstration. It was, it was like a demonstration. Like a mini VBS. But essentially it was a demonstration of, um, what her vision is. That they could do all the time with their own resources in the village to keep the kids engaged, engaged in the church. And so, she had a, um, pretty well defined schedule for us to follow every day.

It essentially was, um, playing games with the kids. Doing a Bible story with the kids. And, um, then some kind of, you know. Um, then some kind of craft if we had time that day with the kids. Because these, as you can see, some of the, a couple of these villages, they had a lot of kids that showed up. Um, I would say that they did a little bit of word of mouth advertising.

Because whenever they, whenever they heard, the kids heard that the Americans were coming. They started telling all their friends. And sometimes a lot of these kids came from surrounding villages just because they wanted to see what was going on. They might also say, you know, the rules down there, I think if I heard it right, was for the boys, if you're old enough to go to school, you're old enough to work.

So, there was a lot of, uh, well there was, there was mainly, uh, mothers. And, uh, and young girls. But there was a few, there was quite a few boys there. But they were, how much? Depends on the village, yeah. A lot of the times the kids that were, what, 10, 12 or older, there's no 10, 12 year old boys or older. They're, they're in the fields working. This, this is, that, that picture there was, that, that's the reaction to, uh, when Rockstar showed up.

You know, they, uh, when Jack came out, he had their attention. All the kids just loved Jack. This is the medical clinic that was set up there. Um, it's, uh, it's, uh, this is just a, it's just a basic building is all it is. In the background, you can see where they've set up with their medications. So, medicine. So, medicine is very limited. Um, we don't realize how fortunate we are here to have multiple options for medication.

Where there you may have an option of one or two diabetic medicines. Um, and one of them is something we don't even use here anymore. But apparently it's available there in Guatemala. Um, so, it, it was a pretty humbling experience for me to realize I don't really know anything about jungle medicine. For certain. Uh, you have nothing. I, I was there working, but I had nothing but my stethoscope.

And I'm not used to working with only a stethoscope and no options for lab or x-ray. Uh, so people come in and they tell you what's wrong, but you really can't do anything to fix it. Other than give medication, which might not really be the appropriate treatment. So, um, but an awful lot of the complaints that you hear there are headaches and diarrhea. Headache.

In fact, pretty much everybody there has a headache and diarrhea. Um, and you can't do too much about the headache because you can give them Tylenol. And everybody has diarrhea because they drink bad water. So, and you can only treat diarrhea with medication so often. Uh, so it, it was very, very interesting for me to, to realize that when you're just in a building with just medicine.

There's not a lot you can do to help. But you just do this. You do the best you can. So, people came in and we saw them and listened to what their problems were. And if medication was appropriate, gave out medication. But we had a very limited options for medic, for medication. Uh, it is interesting there though that pharmacies are just open to anybody. So, if you need medicine, you can just walk to the pharmacy and ask for it without a prescription.

But, uh, God Said Go has just a limited amount of medications that they can use. And that, that's your options for treatment. Okay. This is Pastor Jonathan's. One of three. Pastor Jonathan is starting three churches. Um, and we are second day, third day? Um, okay, second day. We got to visit, uh, what will be. You guys, part of the funds that you guys provided, uh, was sent down early.

And, um, they have ten. There's probably another picture I'm betting. Is there another? There we go. Uh, they're starting to build a church. Pastor Jonathan and his team of local people are working very hard to, to build their church down there. Um, I think right now they're at the point where they were welding trusses together and it started raining. And it's now the rainy season, so the welders left.

So, they're probably pretty much at a standstill. But, as a fellowship, we provided, um, couple thousand dollars. That big stack of ten. Yeah, that big stack of ten. A few thousand dollars provided all of the building materials for their roof. And they were absolutely thrilled because they were stuck. Um, but he's been selling lemons. He's been selling several things.

They grow several things and take them to town and sell them and, and are trying to fund their own church. Um, with very, very limited resources. Uh, what you saw there that was the tent a few slides back is actually where they're meeting now. And they set on rough wooden logs, basically. And, uh, have a thriving fellowship, though. Uh, one of the things, to go back to the clinic, just to give you a little heads up.

Jeff and Esther's vision for financing the entire ministry is to build a clinic, um, where they can, in a city, uh, where they can have lots of people coming in. Um, they, they, they had looked at a house. They thought they were going to build their clinic in a house. Uh. And they were going to cut in half the charges that people, like, if they went to town and they had to pay, you know, $20 for, uh, an x-ray at a, at the public lab next door.

They were going to, they're going to set up a clinic where they can, where a person could come and get an x-ray for $10. And so they, they looked, they had a house that they thought was going to be the perfect location. Turned out it only had 50 amps of power. They needed way more than that to run, you know, all the things that they want to do. So, right now they're looking at another facility, which would be perfect.

For them. Uh, the rent is higher than they can afford. Um, but it's a guarded village that's not too close. They, they had looked at one, another building that was very close to the public hospital type facility. But the public hospital, guys, is, is basically, well, again, Julio and Mark are, have been there forever. They understand. And, and they told Jeff, Jeff, don't, don't put that.

He, he had spotted another place right outside the park. A public hospital type area. And Jeff and, Jeff and Mark said, you can't do that. The gangs will take you out. And, uh, Jeff didn't understand. They said, no, you don't understand. If you try to come in and cut the prices halfway and, and you take, you know, money away from the public facility. Those guys are paying, what do you call it?

Protection. Yeah, they're paying protection to the gangs. So that the gangs won't be, you know, ruining the public hospital facility. Hospital facilities and everything. And so, um, now they've found another place that they, that they're very, that they think is going to work perfectly. But if they can fund a, uh, a clinic not close to anything, you know, nowhere where they shouldn't put it.

If they can fund a clinic, they can provide for all the needs. They can provide for medications. They can provide for, uh, the food that these ministries need. One of their biggest needs right now is the food. The kids' ministries, partly because of Rachel's training, are growing like crazy. Uh, they used to have 25 kids coming to a, you know, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

They, they try to keep the kids entertained. But they used to have the money to feed the kids snacks every time they came. And the, the ministries have grown so, the kids' ministries have grown so much that they can't afford now to feed every kid a snack that's coming every night. So. Yeah. Uh. But we fed them every time. I don't think we've seen any pictures of that.

Well, we didn't. But. Is there, the local ladies, while we were doing what we were doing, uh, Rachel had organized the local ladies to cook hot dogs. Down there they, they cook hot dogs. They put, is it coleslaw? They put some type of cabbage on it. Ketchup and mayonnaise. They wrap that in a napkin. So the napkin's kind of mushy and becoming part of that hot dog after, you know, they've been cooked for a while.

It's kind of interesting. Those kids, you know, what kid here in America at that age, at, at five, likes mayonnaise? Those kids loved it. You know, they just, they were so thrilled to get a hot dog at the end of our, at the, after they played. Uh, that's kind of what we ended with. But, anyway. This is, uh, third day? This third day, um, you can see this, uh, area we're playing in there.

The, the, the pastor actually got out with a machete and cleared this like a lawn mower. He went through there and cleared the grass. So that we'd have a place to, uh, play. It was, it was, you know, it was, it was about yay tall when we got there. But he, he laid down a, an area for us to play. And then, uh, we tied up our, uh, there's the games you can see that we set up for, uh, playing the kids, uh, playing with the kids.

There's the clown toss over there in the left. And, uh, the backdrop for, uh, uh, the Good Samaritan. And then we, we just set up games around the, around the area. Well, this was pin the tail on the donkey. The kids loved to play. They, they just, they don't get to do this kind of stuff. So, uh, yeah, there's the water tower in the back. Uh, that is a concrete water tower that's open.

The birds go in and, uh, nest in there. And, uh, they're drinking that water. Uh, and, uh, but it's, it's wide open to, uh, all the, you know, it's no wonder they have bad water. Because, uh, you know, the birds are flying in there and using it for a toilet. Okay. There was one village, and I think it's this one, where two years ago, before God said go, came in.

The kids were eating pears. They were eating paper to fill their bellies. Um, and I think it's this village. Um, not this one? Okay, we didn't go, okay. Excuse me, I thought. Okay. Um, my mistake. But there was, there's one village that, um, that they ministered to where before they came, the kids, the kids had, um, they had no food. And they would, um, eat paper to fill their bellies.

Yeah. And then God said go, came, uh, came in and, and started feeding the people. And from what I understand, is then the government, and ooh, we can't let these missionaries, you know, show us up. So, we're going to help you out as well. So, um, without God said go's help, these kids would, would, who knows what it would, what would happen. It's craziness.

And actually at that, at the previous village, also, is where we actually set up our medical clinic under a tree. Okay. And I thought actually it was kind of, kind of fun, really. But, again, it was very limited because we just had a couple tables set up under a tree. And that's where we just saw everybody to see what, what was wrong. And when we get there, everybody is lined up, ready to be, uh, seen.

They're pretty excited to, to, uh, come to the doctor. Most kids, most kids around here aren't. But they certainly were there. I, I just, I do want to say one thing about this, this village. This is, uh, this is the place where, uh, Joe got out his, uh, little, uh, drone. With his camera on it. These kids had never seen anything like that. So he has a little drone that's yay big.

He gets that thing out. And it was the funniest thing. I just stood there and watched him. And as he's flying that drone out across there, there's, it looked like he was watching a swarm of blackbirds. Right? Did you see the birds up? Dan, he'd, he'd fly that thing around. And the kids would run with this thing. Wherever it went, they were all running behind it.

And they were chasing his, uh, drone around. And it was, it, the kids were just blown away by this flying. Flying piece of technology that, you know, we take it for granted. They'd never seen anything like it. It was completely foreign to them. But, uh, there was one little boy in particular that just couldn't get enough of it. And I was standing there. I was standing there doing something.

And I see, I see this little boy go zoom running down by. I thought, what is he doing running? Then I looked ahead. There was the drone going in front of it. And he was chasing that drone around. So wherever the drone went, that little boy was, was chasing him. So, uh, did, you didn't get any drone footage? I got lots of drone footage. Um, when we were putting together the slideshow yesterday, I realized that the SD card from my drone got cracked in half on the, on the flight back.

So, um, I did give that drone footage to Jeff. So I'm hoping that we can recover it. But we couldn't recover it fast enough to, to have it in the slideshow. So. I'm going to go ahead and, uh, Mary Ann mentioned, uh, LDK. Um, LDK is. A ministry up by the volcano, which if you go ahead and go through, this was the village that the four wheel drive, the van had to stop on this side of the bridge.

The four wheel drive trucks were able to go across. Um. We took the, we took the bridge. Yeah. We had to take the bridge. We couldn't, we couldn't, again, we couldn't climb out the van door this day. So we had to all climb over the seats and out the back. It was interesting. Um. Keep going. There we go. This is a small area where we were playing games that day.

And. Okay. These are. This is the sink where we washed up. Water balloons. Oh, water balloons. Water balloons were a hit. The kids loved it. What is that one? Oh, is that the skit? Yeah. It's Jack on the ground. Yep. The only flat ground in this whole area, because it was very mountainous, was just on this sidewalk. So we kind of had to set up and, uh, be flexible.

Down the sidewalk. Yeah. Down the sidewalk. This was also the village. I think there's. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. So also the village. I think there's a picture coming up, where they invited us, um, to have a meal with them for lunch. And, um, normally the people here, they would only eat meat once a week if at all.

So them feeding our large group, um, this chicken meal that they had made for us was really, um, a testament of their appreciation of us coming and helping them out. That's wonderful. Yay! That's the kitchen stove there where there was like two or three women standing there making these tortillas continuously, patting them out and putting them on this wood stove.

And that's their kitchen right there, burning wood with a piece of steel over the top of it. Yeah, standing right over there. And there's the meal. What was that called? It was your favorite dish. Papillon. Papillon. It's the Guatemalan national dish. Yep, and it was about 90 degrees in there and the fire rolling, 100% humidity. It was a special meal. We sold it ourselves.

This is the walk up to the pastor's house. It was quite a climb. They had had a slide where part of the building had collapsed and they used that for fill.

Next. This is one. Oh, this. This is the one. This is the volcano. We went up on the side of the volcano. She was sick from the meal. This was on Thursday. Believe it or not, this is an outhouse that can withstand. It's made out of the greatest material God ever made. It's an asbestos outhouse. That's actually walls. The door is not, but the rest of the walls are all made out of asbestos.

But that was the only toilet up there in the mountain. This is a village where they got water once a month. Okay. So the people got their water. Delivered didn't that right or once a week or once a month, once a month and we they had we'd ordered water for the games where we were going to play where we had the kids run and they had to they had to carry water and a spoon and do different things, you know, and so we ordered a, you know, we just asked, hey, can we get five gallons of water?

We got there and they didn't. They said, no, we don't have any water. We only get water once a month, but pretty soon here come the pastor bringing us a five gallon jug of water. So because they wanted the kids to enjoy, you know, playing the games that we set up. But there was just just one toilet up there. The kids in this village, their big thing was to go up the hill and it was, yeah, a volcanic rock and it was the ash from the volcano and they'd run up this hill and they'd run down and up this little incline and jump into a pit of just a pit of black ash.

And Jack. I said, hey, Jack, do that. He did. And he and he'd go up there and the kids just loved him because he'd go up there and he'd run down that hill with those kids and jump into that nasty dirt.

Black sand. Anyway, so but that was that was their fun time of the day is to run and jump in that big pit. And right on the other side of one of these hills right by this village was where the lava fell. So that would be it would be it would be tough for me to have a peace of mind sleeping at night knowing that right on the other side of the hill is where the lava is almost constantly flowing.

Yeah, this village is right is right on the side of one of the active volcanoes there. Yeah, I think that volcano last erupted four or five years ago. It hasn't been. Yeah, it hasn't been very many years ago that volcano last erupted. We were driving by a volcano. We stayed near a volcano that went off every 15 minutes. Every 15 minutes, it put a plume up into their fuego.

Jack set up a camera and took lots of video of it. But we were so we're 6200 foot up where we were sleeping there at Casa Mi Padre. And this is higher. We were up in the clouds. The clouds would roll through and it looked like you were in a fog. It would roll right through and then clear off. And then here come the clouds again.

Yeah, we don't have much time left. But go. Go ahead and talk to one of the big hits that was there was just unbelievable how the kids loved it. But we know we had a craft and Danielle and Joe had brought pinwheels. So tell them about your pinwheels.

We had kind of planned. We had to change last minute what our plan was going to be because we were going to do salvation bracelets and come to find out they had had a missionary team that had come through and done that a couple of months ago. So I think it was two days before because Amazon was able to get us there the day we were leaving. We I bought a little.

I bought a little pinwheels that just blow in the wind with the kids and especially at this village. It was so much fun. I had food poisoning for a couple of days, but I got to come back for this one. And the kids were running up and down the mountain with their little pinwheels. Some of the ladies. This village was really neat because a lot of the moms were there and they were so excited to work with us and get to play games with the kids.

Very interactive. I think one of them. I think this one. The one sitting down is the pastor's wife. And she is over. The children's ministry. They were just so thrilled that we were able to be there and help them. And they were excited to get pinwheels that the kids do. Now, those pinwheels came flat, right? They were just cut outs and the kids had to put everything together.

So we got to work with them to help them put it together and explain to them how to do it. And so but they got to put stickers on and little things that they provide. But that was a big hit for the kids. So that, you know, in our closing minutes, we ought to talk about, you know, you know what? It looks like we had a lot of fun playing games and so on. But the whole point of us being there was to share God's word with them.

And we got to we got to do the skit. We got to do the medical mission. And, you know, Ginger and Ginger had a lot of help. She had locals that came in as nurses that joined. And Janice came. And then our last day, we went to the we went to Jeff and Esther's church, which was in this building here in Antigua.

You sound folks might recognize that soundboard.

And they didn't have much. But, man, this church was it was kind of like stepping into the state back into the states almost. It was. Yeah.

Go ahead and run through the rest of these real quick. Let's see if there's anything we need to.

We have we have we have one day to go around and see a bunch of things on our last day. It's kind of like our our free day where we weren't out working. And this is we went to a restaurant here. We had the in in Antigua. We went shopping in Antigua and got to go to some flea markets. Went to the coffee plantation. This is one of their favorite foods. It's corn on the cob covered in mayonnaise and ketchup.

It's it's it's everywhere.

This just some of the some of the food. This this young man right here in the front. He was he was the trans Christian. He was our translator. And. He was a great great young man. Grew up there in Guatemala and had just joined Jeff and Esther and was was extremely helpful. And again the kids loved him. Him and Jack were bosom buddies. They had they had great fun.

Lots of great fun. Jack Jack gave me a tortilla.

This is the cup game. We won't go into that. This is our last night as we had kind of a wrap up session with the leaders.

Yeah. We went around the room and all shared briefly what our highlights were. And then these guys shared. Rachel right there Rachel and Julio were such a blessing. Rachel said for her the highlight was to hear the kids say oh we love it when the Americans come. It's so much fun. And it was like wow that was a blessing. Oh there's today one of their prayer requests right now.

It is the rainy season and somehow we were there during the rainy season but it didn't. God held back the rains and we can feel your prayers such a blessing. But this is now just since we left this was the main highway which we told you. It took us like an hour to get on the good roads. This was a good road. Now they're having to go. It's taken them four hours to get to their villages now.

And some of them are you know they happen to cut some of their their villages that I'm not sure what that one is. Guys that was a road that we think was it. OK. But anyway that is a big prayer request for them is just pray that they get the roads back opened up. I want to go ahead and read you guys a letter from Jeff and Esther that they wrote to us. Um. This is dear Calvary Chapel hey there Jeff and Esther here we just wanted to reach out to express our heartfelt thank you on behalf of our team and the villages we serve in Guatemala.

Your recent mission trip with the amazing team of 10 has truly touched our hearts and blessed our ministry. We're just a small group of believers who saw the needs heard the call. I'm going to choke up here. And we're willing to. OK. Lost my place. You read it. We're just a small group of believers who saw the needs. Heard the call and we're willing to say yes to Jesus and go your church's willingness to jump in whether by coming in person or through the generous support with funds gains and medicines has made a lasting impact in the lives of many children and their families your partnership dedication to unselfish unselfish service and the joy you brought have made a world of difference to those we serve.

We can't thank you enough for Pastor Nichols Jana for planning and leading the team. All 10 short term missionaries and everyone at Calvary Chapel for your kindness your compassion and commitment your support has not only met the immediate needs but has also brought hope for a brighter tomorrow just because you have shown our villages our villagers you care. Thank you for being awesome and caring so much please come back next year we hope to see many old and new faces again next year. We're excited to keep working together to make a positive impact.

In the needs in the lives of those who need it most warmest thanks and God bless God said go missions and team that's pretty much our wrap up thank you guys does anybody have any questions that you'd like to ask we're kind of out of time anyway so that that works out great thank you thanks for coming yes. Bless Lord Jesus you are awesome and we just thank you that we were able to go and minister. These folks and that we represented this church. And then we just shared you just that's what people need a whole world needs you.

And so we just ask that you would just watch over and keep that ministry and all the ministries that are reaching out all over the world to touch hurting folks that don't need to don't know you. And we just ask that you would be glorified in everything. You are awesome.

Amen.