Dear Family and Friends,
Thank you so much for your support of my mission trip to Guatemala, whether it was financial, prayer, encouragement, or other means. I feel that the trip was a huge success as well as a huge blessing. I want to share my experience with you all, so you are invited to a presentation that I will give on Saturday evening, March 15, 2008. I will have pizza for anyone who wants to join me for dinner at 6pm, and then the presentation will start at around 6:30-6:45. I will plan for the evening to end by 8pm. It will be at my church, Greenville Christian Church. I ask that you please let me know if you are going to be there for the pizza dinner. I want to be sure to have enough food to go around. Also, I do not have child care planned, but if that is your reason for not being able to attend, please let me know and I will arrange child care. Please send me an email at amym1130@aol.com and let me know if you will be there, and if you need directions I can give them to you at that time. I do hope to see you all there, and look forward to being able to personally thank you for your support as well as share my amazing experience with you.
Thanks again and I hope to see you there!!
Amy
Amy's Beat
I groove to the beat of my own drums!
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Friday, February 8, 2008
Yes, I did actually come home....
I am home....but part of my heart was left in Guatemala. I am sorry it has been so long since I have posted a message. It is so hard........almost exhausting...to talk about my experience.....not because it was a bad thing, but becasue it was a wonderful thing. When I start to talk about it, I just get so wound up and it wears me out! ha!
The pictures above are but a very few of what I have. I cannot post them all on here, but hopefully, at least those of you who live near me, will get the opportunity to see as many of them as you want to see.
The pictures are in no particular order, but as you can see, I did and experienced a wide range of things. We spent time in a very nice orphanage, where the kids are well cared for, yet they have no family, and hope to be adopted. We also spent time in the Guatemalan ghetto, the Limonada, where there are familes, but they don't have much of anything, as well as the dump, where people live, and many do not know where their next meal will come from. We also went to a boys home, where they boys seem to be well cared for, yet they dont have the love of a family that we all cherish, and there are so many of them, with so few caregivers, and we also went way out into the country side where there was a mudslide a few years back, where they live in extreme poverty, yet the families are together. So, there are so many extremes here, and it all really shows us here in the States how very rich and blessed we are..........and extra blessed are those of us who do have loving familes and/or church familes and friends to love us.
Anyone who wants to see more pictures or see videos, I am more than happy to share them. I do plan to have an evening, probably at church, where I will give a presentation, but I am also happy to get with anyone in an individual basis as well.
The pictures above are but a very few of what I have. I cannot post them all on here, but hopefully, at least those of you who live near me, will get the opportunity to see as many of them as you want to see.
The pictures are in no particular order, but as you can see, I did and experienced a wide range of things. We spent time in a very nice orphanage, where the kids are well cared for, yet they have no family, and hope to be adopted. We also spent time in the Guatemalan ghetto, the Limonada, where there are familes, but they don't have much of anything, as well as the dump, where people live, and many do not know where their next meal will come from. We also went to a boys home, where they boys seem to be well cared for, yet they dont have the love of a family that we all cherish, and there are so many of them, with so few caregivers, and we also went way out into the country side where there was a mudslide a few years back, where they live in extreme poverty, yet the families are together. So, there are so many extremes here, and it all really shows us here in the States how very rich and blessed we are..........and extra blessed are those of us who do have loving familes and/or church familes and friends to love us.
Anyone who wants to see more pictures or see videos, I am more than happy to share them. I do plan to have an evening, probably at church, where I will give a presentation, but I am also happy to get with anyone in an individual basis as well.
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