ShareHim Guatemala Update:
Students Successfully Preach their First Sermons

Students review their sermon notes while eating breakfast Sabbath
morning.

Several students preached their first of 19 ShareHim sermons Friday evening.  Now that the area youth rally has ended, everybody on the team will be speaking for the church service in his or her respective churches. 

Both Michael Hall and Shonette Peters reported that while everything went smoothly, the sermon provided by ShareHim was just too long.  (Most of the sermons have around 95 PowerPoint slides.)

Those of us who did not speak Friday evening went to the area youth rally.  Although only our group leader, Julio Davila, who speaks Spanish, could fully understand what was being said or sung, we enjoyed the music and the enthusiasm of the preaching.


I will be speaking at the 1st Seventh-day Adventist Church in San Benito, only a 10-minute drive from our hotel.  Shown below is a greeting from the head elder of the church.  Check back in a day or two for a translation.




For the most part all of us are in good health.  On Friday Julio took three students to the pharmacy for some over-the-counter decongestants and an antibiotic ointment for an eye infection.  Pharmacists in Guatemala appear to have the ability to dispense much of what you need, without a prescription

Breakfast consisted of orange juice, a small bowl of fruit, an English
muffin filled with scrambled eggs and tomatoes, and a bowl of black beans.

ShareHim had arranged with the hotel to provide us a set breakfast each morning.  Shown to the right is a photo of Friday morning's breakfast.  It was delicious, but not big enough for the young men in our group.  Rather than have them go hungry, we have arranged for anyone not filled up by the set breakfast to get all the rice and beans they can eat!