Back to School!

For us in North America, back to school happens in September but here in Guatemala, January is back to school time.  In October we had a team come from Grand Rapids and pre-pack, assembly line style, back packs of school supplies for public school kids.  Then in November, before leaving for Canada, Rocky and I packed the bags for the sponsor kids who attend Galilea Christian School.  

In January, when Cindy and Eileen arrived, they worked like crazy to make sure all the sponsored kids had their school supplies, uniforms, shoes, etc and were ready to begin the year.  For 2015 we have 38 students attending Galilea!

Then, once all of those students were set up, they got to work on distributing the backpacks to public schools.  Working with the school principals to determine the most needy students, Cindy and Eileen distributed around 190 bags!  What an amazing blessing.  

 Education is something, as North Americans, we take for granted.  But not here.  In Chisec, many school aged kids are not in school because their families simply cannot afford to buy the necessary supplies, shoes and uniforms to send them.  It is an amazing privilege to work on behalf of all of you who have given so generously and enabled these precious little ones to attend school.