9 June 2017
Amazing Journey
2017 Mission Program was an amazing journey of relationship building and serving together! We wrapped up our second week with a sweet time of worship and devotions this morning. Many volunteers shared the highlights from their week. Our teams installed…
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The Heart Of Our Mission Is The Hope Of Nations
A Heart To Serve
We were overwhelmed as the old wooden doors of the orphanage were opened and we saw people lined up as far as the eye could see…. Our first experience on the mission field in the 1990’s opened our eyes to the extreme poverty and lack of healthcare resources that are commonplace in many of the world’s developing countries. We saw families devastated by parasites, blindess, infections and severe deformities.
The Reality
Throughout the next 20 years of medical and surgical mission trips, we began to see the greater need of the people. The reality of the situation was heart breaking. We felt as though we were putting a band-aid on the wound without addressing the actual cause of the wound. Their water sources were contaminated, and they had little or no access to nutritious food. Entire communities were being affected.
Our Response
In 2010, we formed Sharing The Journey International. We work side-by-side with residents of the communities we serve, local medical care providers, and missionaries to provide clean water, nutrition, health and hygiene education, dental and medical care. We believe that a comprehensive approach of health, education, community support, and faith is necessary to attain permanent change for a better way of life in a suffering community.
Medical Missions
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6 June 2017 Surgery and Dental Week The surgery and dental week is underway and we are anticipating treating at least 30 children and young adults in surgery and about 200 more in dental. Our second week team was welcomed to the hotel in Guatemala with pouring rain and an intense thunderstorm.…
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13 November 2016 Preparation Trip Day 3 This was a busy day for sure! We went to Coban to handle some logistics for the program. We travelled from there to visit our friends at Casa Gloria Orphanage in Santa Cruz. We were so glad to see that their beautiful facility is full of precious children…
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Preparation Trip Day 1We arrived on 11/9 in Guatemala City for our Inventory Trip for our upcoming mission trips. We encountered a huge traffic jam on the way where the road had washed out previously. Ginny was a trooper and made the best of…
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30 May 2016 What a busy trip! We certainly felt the prayers of everyone as we (the surgical team) flew in from different areas of the country and met in the Guatemalan airport and managing to find everyone! Especially when we had to get the remaining medical supplies through customs.…
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21 May 2016 Amazing Week! May 20 We had a great time of worship and devotion this morning. The team reflected on the past week and how blessed we all were to serve here in Guatemala. We shared about how humbling it was for all of us to visit little Romeo's family in their remote…
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18 May 2016 Great 4 Days…God is Good! Saturday May 14,2016 Saturday the team traveled to Guatemala and met up with Jackie, Cesia, Rudy and the rest of the volunteers. Travel went smoothly praise God! Although it was a very long day, a 5 hour flight and 5 hour ride up to San Cristobal, and…
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15 May 2016 Visiting Casa Gloria May 10, 2016 Today we went to visit Casa Gloria. This is a beautiful new orphanage that our friend Rudy is helping to administrate. It is Mother’s Day in Guatemala. They asked us to Bible study for the caregivers as part of the Mother’s Day celebration.…
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14 May 2016 We’re Here – Recap from Day 1 and Day 2 May 7th. Day 1-We arrived in Guatemala! This is the time when my heart is pounding so fast in anticipation to see what God has in store for us. Our brother in Christ, Rudy, was waiting for us in the airport It was so good to see his face.…
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3 April 2016 Amazing Transformation, Please Keep Praying. Pictured is the baby who was malnourished when our friend Rudy met him in October 2015. We have worked with Rudy's organization, AVIS Salud in providing formula, a special feeding system and education to this family. He is now a healthy, happy little…
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Community Health
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9 June 2017 Black Water River Village School Yesterday, we wrapped up our final week with a great trip to Black Water River Village School. It was an hour drive from San Cristobal to the dam and then a 25 minute ride by boat and a rigorous 20 minute…
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2 June 2017 Great Day! What a great day we had!! We had the WaterStep, water system inauguration at Paneste School today! The children have clean water for the first time to wash their hands and brush their teeth! Then we…
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30 May 2017 Day 1 and 2 Our water team has been hard at work for the past 2 days teaching morning and afternoon sessions at the school! The parents and teachers had as much fun as the children learning all the songs, health…
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29 May 2017 We made it! Clinic Team made it safely! We started our day with a sweet time of worship and devotions. Today the water team went to set up for their first day of installation for the water system at the Paneste Village…
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13 November 2016 Preparation Trip Day 2 We got up early and our team joined our ministry partners from Living To Serve and spent the day doing the inventory for our 2017 medical/surgical/dental and outreach mission trips.
21 May 2016 STJI provides purified water, Jesus provides living water… May 19th: Thursday kicked off at 6:30 AM with an egg and sausage breakfast. Then at morning devotions we discussed the power of the Word of God. Scripture is so strong that the truth can hurt. It's the…
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20 March 2015 Answered Prayer! We have been praying for quite some time about building a medical/dental/worship center in Guatemala. Recently, it became very clear to us that we should begin with a dental and worship center to meet…
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1 April 2014 February 2014 Mission Teams Our Community Health Program provided clean water, health and hygiene education, as well as dental and medical care services to the residents of many surrounding villages. We worked side-by-side with…
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13 March 2013 Building Healthy Communities Through Drinking Water Technology In February 2013, in Coban, Guatemala we came alongside a local church that had a heart to serve their local community. We placed a water purification system in a homeless shelter that provided meals…
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