We made it home safely!

Hi all,

We made it home safely today from Guatemala.  We had such an amazing and blessed time on this trip.  Thank you to all of you for your prayers and support throughout our journey.  Please listen to Radio Shine this coming Tuesday for our all-day, on-air Radio Shine/FH Guatemala child sponsorship promotion day.  We will be sharing so much with all of the listeners about our trip, and it will be a blessed time.  Again, thanks so much for your prayers.  Jesus really kept us safe and opened our eyes to the love of the people of Campat!!

Talk soon and God bless you all!

The Radio Shine Team

Finished up in the Community

Wow, What an experience of God´s Love. From the FH Guatemala staff taking detailed care of us to the welcoming Campat community we saw evidence of God´s Hand at work. We have been so blessed to see the love of Christ in the hearts of everyone in Campat.

The community gave a closing ceremony today and we spent extra time with the children along with one home visit. Saying good bye to the community was very difficult as so many relationships were built through this trip.

God´s hand is upon this community and we learned that even in the farthest places of the world, it is never out of the reach of Christ.

Micah

GREAT 3rd day in Campat!!

Here is Olivia and Micah meeting for the first time during today´s home visit.  Olivia is Radio Shine´s sponsored girl.

Micah was able to visit with Olivia and her family to share gifts.

      



Here is Micah with Oliva and some of her family members.                                      

Another awesome and amazing day doing VBS with the children of Campat.

Archie and Casey enjoying blowing up ballons for the children during VBS.  

Bella was joining in on the balloon fun as well. 

Chris was hard at work pushing around cement mix for the classroom building project. 

Kathy is having an awesome time with all of the children here in the community.  

Patrick is blowing bubbles for the children, as Kresta watches and plays with the children.  

This was our view as we were leaving the community tonight.  God´s light was shining on Campat.  

 Archie was playing praise songs during his and Casey´s home visit today with their sponsored child. 

Archie and Casey with their sponsored girl, Leticia, during the home visit. 

Some of today´s pictures of our adventure in Campat...

Hey everyone,

We were able to figure out the computer system here at the hotel we are staying at and are now able to show you some of our pictures from our trip.  These were taken today in Campat.  We hope you enjoy them and there will be more to come.  God bless you!

The Radio Shine Team

We had an amazing 2nd day in Campat...

Hi everyone,

The team is back safe and soundly from an amazing 2nd day in Campat.  We started our day with devotions and prayer time, and then we headed off. 

Our first stop was at an FH facilitated health clinic in the community.  We watched little children get weighed and given immunizations.  We visited with members of the community, and then the Radio Shine team led a worship time with the people there at the clinic.  Patrick and Heather Eddolls led the team in worship with great vocals and guitar, and we just all worshipped the Lord together.  It was such a wonderful and blessed time. 

We then did VBS with about 150 of the children of Campat.  The team was doing animal balloons with the kiddos, and then we worshipped together.  The children of Campat all raised their hands and sang out to Jesus.  It was truly an awesome time. 

We made good progress in the classroom construction and the cement is poored and the forms are set.  It starting to take shape for sure.  This entire team is truly receiving blessings from above and we are witnessing God at work right in front of our eyes.  Thank you for your prayers.  Now we are cleaning up and going to eat some dinner soon.  Talk to you soon.

The Radio Shine team!!

Ready for day 2 on the mission field!

Good morning all,

We are looking forward to what today will have for us.  We will be visiting a clinic where they help mothers learn how to be healthy with their children.  Malnutrition is a major problem here, and we are seeing it everyday.  We are asking the ages of the children because a 7 year old here in Campat is like the size of my 4 year old Caleb.  This is not because of genetics, it is because lack of nutrition especially under 2 will stunt growth of the body.  These people don´t know this. What I love most about FH is the fact that they educate communities to know what to do and how to change these habits.  They do so with a God world view. 

We will also be going to a farm training.  FH teaches the men how to grow a garden, with vegtables that will bless their families.  I am excited to see and be apart of giving them the tools to help them serve their families and their communities for years to come. 
Heather Eddolls

Day 1 was amazing...

Hey everyone,

A quick check in.  The team is doing wonderful.  We were absolutely blessed today and had such a wonderful time visiting with the community members of Campat.  We started construction on a classroom at the school.  We played with the beautiful children and there were so many smiles and laughter filled the air.  We were able to go with team member Kathy Sweeney to visit her sponsored child, Lydia, at her home.  It was a wondeful visit with her and her family, and it was really special to see Kathy spend one on one time with Lydia.  We wish we could upload photos, but we are having troubles doing that with the computer here at our hotel.  Hopefully we can figure out how to fix that.  Well, we are back at the hotel and preparing to clean up and have dinner.  Thanks for your continued prayers.  Will check in soon.  Blessings!

Ryan and all of the Radio Shine Team