An Brief Update for November AND December

Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas AND Happy New Year to you all!

It has been a long time since I last updated this blog, and I´ve spent the last months traveling for various meetings, reunions, and vacations, meeting many new people and learning (surprise!) a lot. Thanks to whoever is reading this, for continuing to take an interest in my life here in Western Guatemala.

Here are some pics of my travels:

Beatiful Santiago Atitlan, where youth from MCC´s programs in Guatemala and El Salvador gathered for leadership training and cultural exchange.

I was lucky enough to spend some vacation time in Roatan, a Caribbean island off the northern coast of Honduras.

Not so much a landscape pic, but I definitely had a grand carol-singin´, cookie-baking Christmas with the VerBeeks in Tegucigalpa.

My parents came out to visit me in Sibinal, and we took the bumpy pickup ride out to beautiful  Vega.

I´m looking forward to the new projects in 2013 here in Sibinal, especially as the new long-term worker, John VanderHeide, moves out here in February. We´ll be supporting agro-ecological farms, working with school gardens in the four communities, and organizing community markets for Sibinal´s small farmers. I appreciate your continuing prayers and support!