clc guatemala missions

A huge thank you to everyone for helping with the Spaghetti feed! With our matching grant from Thrivent Financial For Lutherans we made over $1000!! Thank you to everyone who helped set up, serve, clean and also thank you to everyone who attended and graciously donated! Pictures and more to follow soon…

Please Join us for our 3rd annual All-You-Can-Eat Spaghetti Dinner fundraiser! And INVITE YOUR FRIENDS, FAMILY, NEIGHBORS, CO-WORKERS, PEOPLE IN THE LINE AT THE GROCERY STORE…you get the idea.

• When: Sunday, February 12th from 5:30pm to 7:30pm
• Where: Concordia Lutheran Church, 1015 NE Orchard Drive, Pullman WA (across the street from Beasley Coliseum)
• How much?: suggested donation of $5 per person for $20 max for a family of 4 or more.
• What: An all you can eat Spaghetti Feast with our famous homemade sauce, oodles of noodles, tables of desserts and much more! You can even take a to-go box home with you!!

Hope to see you there!!

If this is your first visit to our website, here is a little about the mission: Our Mission is March 8-17, 2012 (less than 40 days away!). 24 members from Concordia Lutheran Church & Lutheran Student Fellowship in Pullman, Washington in partnership with Lutheran Hour Ministries will be traveling the Puerto Barrios, Guatemala. While there we will be putting on VBS (Vacation Bible Schools) for over 500 children: one program in the morning at the Lutheran school, and two in the afternoon at both the Lutheran school and the Lutheran Community center. In addition to the VBS programs we will be working on a construction project at the Community Center. This will be our third mission to Guatemala since 2008 and we are excited to see old friends and make new one while carrying out this important ministry in the community of Puerto Barrios. Please feel free to browse our pictures from last trips in the right side bar, or browse the links up top for more information. Also feel free to sign up for email updates (on the right side bar) as we regularly post information about events here and we will be posting daily while in Guatemala.

We will be hosting a Guatemala VBS craft workday to assemble crafts and gifts for our upcoming trip. Here are the details:

• When: Satruday, January 28 starting at 1pm
• Where: Concordia Lutheran Church fellowship hall
• What: count/label/bag VBS craft projects (700 per day X three days); count/label/bag gifts for children (also 700 per day X three days); make cross necklace kits; color-code children’s name tags; and have a TON of good fun working together!
• Who: You! and Guatemala trip members! All are welcome and many are needed to help out! Please feel free to show up and we will put you to work. Thank you so much for your support, hope to see you there!

Mark your calenders and start spreading the word! Our 3rd annual All-You-Can-Eat Spaghetti Dinner is coming up! Please join us on Sunday, February 12th from 5:30 to 7:30pm for All-You-Can-Eat Spaghetti, desserts, fellowship and fun! More details to come soon…

Trip Members, please remember to get your forms into Ann soon! These need to be mailed into the Lutheran Hour Ministry offices in just a couple of weeks. If you have questions or need to pick up forms to fill out please talk to Ann.

In Novemeber we had our official Guatemala Mission Sunday at Concorida in Pullman and it was a huge success! We were blessed to be able to welcome Pastor Byron Paz from Christ Our Savior Lutheran church in Puerto Barrios and Rebeca de Franco from Lutheran Hour Ministries in Guatemala. Over the last two mission trips we have had the oppurtinty to grow close with both Pastor Paz and Rebeca and we were beyond thrilled to welcome them here to our church home in the United States. While here Pastor Paz and Rebeca were able to share with the congregation about their ministry in Guatemala during the church service. After the serive we were also treated to an authentic Guatemalan meal prepared by Rebeca with the help of past and future trip members. The entire visit was certianly one to remember!

Below are a few photos from their visit including Mission Sunday, and some sight seeing around Pullman. Thank you to everyone who helped to organize this special weekend!!

Wow, it is hard to believe that 2012 is here! It has been a whirlwind two years since our last trip with much happening in the lives of many of our trip members. It is also astonishing to think that in just 64 day (wow only 64!?) we will all be boarding a plane for Guatemala! However before then there is LOTS to accomplish!

In the next several weeks we will be coordinating times to assemble craft packets and gifts. A large part of our trip ministry is supplying all the needed crafts supplies for the VBS programs we lead. So if you are interested in helping out with this important part of our ministry watch the church bulletin & announcements and this page for days and times. Our ministry is depended on the help of our congregation and we thank you all for everything you’ve done and will do! You are ALL part of this team even if you are not physically going.

This year is presenting us with a new opportunity and challenge; as the Lutheran school in Puerto Barrios is growing we will now be providing a second VBS program in the afternoon at the same time we are leading VBS at the Lutheran Community Center. So this means we will have a VBS at the school in the morning, then another VBS at the school in the afternoon in addition to the VBS at the community center-that is a lot of VBS! We are excited for this new opportunity but it will be presenting us with some unique logistic challenges for running two programs at different locations at the same time. And we will also still have a construction crew at the community center all day. So as you can imagine some creative planning on our parts will be taking place.

In other news (albeit a few weeks late) our trip shirts have arrived! I believe all the trip members have picked up their shirts already but if not be sure to check in with Ann and she’ll get you taken care of. Thanks to Ann and Carla for designing and ordering! I may be biased but I have to say they look pretty great!

Thank you to our models, and trip members, (L to R) Curyn, Anna, Rick, Ashley, James & Ann

Curyn & Anna posing and Winston trying to figure out what they are doing

Also a HUMONGOUS THANK YOU to everyone who helped out with the Auction and Talent show in December it was a HUGE success. Thank you especially to Rick and Ashley for spearheading that planning of that event, and thank you to everyone who attended, preformed and donated. I hear there is a video floating around of the LSFer’s skit, hopefully we can get that posted on here soon.

So the next 64 days will be packed with lots of planning, craft assembling and getting ready for March 8th! Please keep the whole team in your prayers as we are entereing the home stretch and things will really start to pick up. Some of our team members are still facing some health challenges and are faced with making big decisions regarding their attendance on the trip. Please keep them in your prayers for dicernment. And as always please pray for the people of Guatemala who are also preapring for our arrival!

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