Transfired Ministries

Guatemala 2008

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Missionary Carlos and I teaching at the first church leader’s conference on evangelism.
Everyone is enjoying a joke that Carlos made during the teaching.
Here I am handing out copies of “One Thing You Can’t Do in Heaven” by Mark Cahill. They were translated into Spanish.
Here I am handing out packs of the tracts I was able to make in Spanish and bring along with me. This is the soccer tract that seemed very popular with the guys.
I am handing out packs of our “Ticket to Heaven” tracts that we had translated into Spanish and printed.
In this picture I am teaching 70 Bible students and pastors at the ASELSI training center. Claudia, who is one of the main workers at ASELSI, is translating.
This was an all day training for the students on the first Saturday that I was in Guatemala. We started about 9:00AM and then went out on the streets to witness around 3:30PM.
Here I am teaching the students how to use out Ticket to Heaven tract when they go out witnessing on the streets.
This is me and Miriam. Miriam is an absolutely beautiful little Mayan girl that my missionary friend had adopted.
This is a priest or leader of this church offering incense outside of the main and oldest church in Chichicastenango.
This is a very old Mayan Indian church in the market area of Chichicastenango. There are people constantly offering incense and offering to the gods in front of the church.
One of the many and busy streets during market day in Chichicastenango. Thursdays and Sunday are the busy market days.
The ASELSI training center and offices.
This is Duke, one of the two German Shepherds owned by John and Sharon Harvey, the founders of ASELSI.
Area behind the training center on the ASELSI campus.
This is a playground for kids on the ASELSI campus that a team from the United States came and built.
Bob Helwer, John Harvey and the pastor of the church where I did a conference on evangelism in the city of Aguacatan.
The outside of the church in Aguacatan where we held a conference on evangelism.
Me teaching on evangelism in the conference in Aguacatan.
I tend to use my hands when I teach and when I am trying to explain things, as you can see here.
Corn on a stick anyone?
Missionary and my friend Bob and I practice some translation before one of the sessions. This was the first time that Bob had translated and he did a great job.
A brief time of worship in the morning during the second day of our conference in Aguacatan.
Even with no music and the people singing in a language that I couldn’t understand, this was a precious time of worshipping our heavenly Father and giving Him thanks.
Some of the people at the conference show off their gospel tracts that I gave them right before they would go out onto the streets to witness to people.
Some beautiful scenery in Aguacatan.
This is me standing by a river that was coming right out of the side of a mountain. It was incredibly clean and cold water.
Here is where the river came out of the mountain.
I am handing out copies of Mark Cahill’s books. Wherever I gave out Mark’s books the people were incredibly grateful for the books and promised to read them.
Some of the people showing their books.
This is a picture of me and two of the pastors who attended the evangelism conference in Aguacatan. I was such an honor to meet these two men and to partner together with them in ministry.
This is a bin of food I was able to purchase to give to a Mayan Indian family that was going through some very hard times. This was before we made a home visit to the family.
We had to park quite a ways away from the house and carry the bin of food up a mountain to where the family lived.
This is the house that we were going to that was on the side of a mountain. It is made of adobe mud bricks, which is very common in Guatemala.
At the end of our time talking with the husband and wife the husband told us that he wanted to become a Christian. Here Miguel, a worker at ASELSI, and I are praying for the husband.
This man had been out of work and an alcoholic for the past year. We were able to pray with him to accept Christ and ask for God’s grace and power to break his addiction to alcohol.
It was an wonderful honor to be able to bless this struggling family with the bin or food and bathroom products I had been able to purchase earlier. They were very grateful.
This is a beautiful picture of the husband and wife and me just before I left.
The outside of a church that I spoke at which was located just outside of the town of Chichicastenango.
Even this was a special service that happened on a Thursday during the afternoon, the church was packed with people enthusiastically praising God.
This is me with the pastor of the church after I was able to present him with a number of copies of Mark’s book for him and his church leaders.
Some of the missionaries and workers of ASELSI playing their weekly soccer (football) game
This is a group of people waiting to go into a weekly medical clinic that is sponsored and run by ASELSI.
Many mothers bring their children to the medical clinic for medicine and medical care that they probably would be unable to get anywhere else.
Here we are setting up for an open air evangelistic service in a park during one of the busy market days in Chichicastenango.
This dog seemed really interested in what we were doing the music that was being played.
Missionaries Carlos and Bob doing and praise and worship songs at the open air service in the market.
Here are some people listening to the worship choruses that were being played and sung.
I was able to preach to the people in the market with the help of my interpreter named Danielle. Danielle spoke both Spanish and Quiche, which is the language of the Mayan Indians.
Here are some people listening to me preach the gospel in the market.
Here is another picture of me preaching open air. We had the volume turned up pretty loud because it was very noisy in the market that day.
Here is one of the Christians that I had been able to train in evangelism using our Ticket to Heaven tract to witness to someone after the preaching was done in the open air service.
After the preaching was done some of the students from ASELSI went out into the crowd to hand out tracts and talk to people about what I had preached about. Here is a man reading a tract he had been given.
People one the streets were very receptive of the tracts we were handing out and were very willing to read them, as you can see from this picture.
This is a great picture of three young men reading the gospel tracts and talking about them. We were able to sow many gospel seeds that day.

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