Guatemala Team ~ June 20, 2019

A view from the future site of the Potter’s House Expansion Field Office in Chiquimula, Guatemala. 

Team One 
“Team Avery” had an awesome final day at Casa de Jeronimo. We did final touch-up work on the hygiene unit and installed the high efficiency stove. Better than that, we had the opportunity to dedicate the unit to Rosa, Leonardo, Francisco, Esperanza, and all the other precious family members in the name of Jesus Christ. We prayed together and said tearful goodbyes thanking God for each other and for our time together.

It’s remarkable how quickly time can pass, especially when you are working, joking, and enjoying life together with some very special friends you met just a few days before. The bonds we share in Christ have such an amazing way of instantly cutting through differences in culture, ethnicity, economic status, and language. We are all equal at the foot of the Cross of Christ, and this week was an incredible demonstration of this.

Thanks so much to Avery, Patrick, Ethan, and the Potter’s House staff of Josue’, Annbella, Monica, Jose’, Carlos, and all who made our time in Chiquimula so special. You are all treasures in the eyes of God, and I am so grateful to have had the privilege to spend the week with you. To God by the glory, great things He hath done!

~John Rustin

Team Two
This morning, our last day in Chiquimula, our team arrived at the Escalante’s home, feeling more and more like family.  We spent the morning installing a stove, which comprises one quarter of the new integrated hygiene unit and touching up the painting we did on the unit the past 2 days.  

There was less work than the prior 3 days here, as we only had a couple of hours in the morning before making the trek back to Guatemala City.  As we finished our work, we were able to spend some time with Amelida and her father, Marcel, who has been working alongside us all week. We ended our time together, praying for each other and enjoying the sweet fellowship that has developed between our team and these fellow believers so many miles from Raleigh and in such a different culture and situation, with the confidence we have in our Lord that we will have the opportunity to rejoice together for eternity as the Lord makes all things new.  (Rev. 21:5).  

~Bruce Berger