In just three short weeks we'll be on a plane headed for Villa Nueva, Guatemala, a suburb of Guatemala City. We're heading to New Life Children's Home, a home for over 40 orphaned or abandoned Guatemalan children run by missionaries Kendon and Wendy Wheeler.
They don't call the home an "orphange," because that's really not what it is. It's a home. The kids celebrate birthdays with cake and singing. They jump on a trampoline and play cards. They go to school and get help with their homework. They eat lunch and wash clothes and do their chores with their 40+ other "brothers" and "sisters."
So on May 31, we'll leave the place that's become our home — the Rio Grande Valley — and make our home in Guatemala for the summer. It's not easy to leave the place that has, in just under a year, become home to us. We'll miss the raspas (snow cone-like treats that go far, far beyond what any snow cone has ever imagined achieving), the palm trees, the signs pointing to Mexico with a "7" beside them (the number of miles we live from the border). We'll miss friends that we've made, our church that we've come to love. We'll miss the comfort of speaking "Tex-Mex," and being able to throw in words in English and Spanish at the same time, whichever comes to our head first (a luxury we will not have in Guatemala)! We'll miss the 85 degree mornings and 100 degree afternoons, the high humidity, the oppressive heat...oh wait, we actually won't miss those!
But what we don't want to miss is keeping in touch with our wonderful friends and prayer partners, and we don't want you to miss out either. So, we've stepped farther into the world of Internet communication than ever before...we started this blog! We hope it's a way that we can stay connected to you, and a way that you can feel a part of what God's doing in Guatemala. So check it often, and we'll try to have new pictures, info, and maybe even a video or two. And more than anything, we ask you to pray — for us, for the home, and mostly for the kids, that they would experience the love of Jesus in a new and fresh way every single day.
4 comments:
Christy and Caleb,
Well, it's good to see you launching out. Asbury's work in your lives is coming to fruition, I guess. Actually, it's not about Asbury anyway. It's about God at work in you during the period you happened to be enrolled at the school in Wilmore. Christy, convergence is the trend in American Journalism. So you're on the right track with this blog.
Keep me posted (as I know you will.)
The Longinows in California are adapting to the cultures that make up this very interesting place. God is at work here.
Blessing on you.
Dr. L
Looking forward to having you guys... and just so you know- Spanglish is alive and well at NLCH.
Yay!
Home is a special part of life. I am so glad that you will be working to give this to a some of God's children in need.
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