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Vale la Pena

August 30, 2009 by ecoach 1 Comment

“Vale la Pena” is a phrase that means something along the lines of “It’s worth it.”

When I think of some of the challenges that we face, I have to ask the question – is it worth it?

Is it Worth it?

Is it worth it, living by faith on surprise support in the mail box?

Is it worth it,  the embarrassment when our new friends are reflexively astonished when they discover that we don’t have a car, and then try to hide their astonishment?

Is it worth it, the sense of gratitude when people pity us and give us a ride or pay for our movie tickets?

Is it worth it, learning a second language and mess it up while trying to communicate God’s grace?

Is it worth it, walking away from a six-figure income to help Latin American pastors equip their church to do the work of evangelism?

Is it worth it, being eaten by mosquitoes, using outhouses, frigid cold showers, and sleeping in uncomfortable beds to help ignite small churches in Panama and help pastors reach poor people?

Is it worth a 14 hour frigid and uncomfortable bus trip to teach pastors for 3 hours on evangelism during a torrential downpour where I have to shout to be heard, and encourage them in their ministry?

Yes.

The grace of God has captured me.  It has transformed my life.

Going to Paso Canoas

24 hours after returning from Guatemala, I got on a bus and made the 7 hour trek to the border of Costa Rica.  Those buses are very cold with cranked air conditioners.  Trying to sleep is a near impossibility without assistance from Benadryl.

Not to mention the two “wake up the entire bus” stops on the way for a bathroom break and then a passport check out in the middle of nowhere.

As we get closer to the destination, beginning about 4am, this express bus starts dropping people off and picking people up, changing the pitch of the engine white noise and putting the lights on in the cabin.

When I arrive at the border, I’m wiped out.  We check into a hotel for the day at $10, a little tourist hotel that has no comparison to the US.  That price included a floor fan and a TV.  I don’t worry about the TV and fall asleep fast, my discomfort is of no import, just finally horizontal to sleep.

I wake up with splitting sinus headache.

Since we’ve walked into Costa Rica, I’m out of place not knowing where anything is, or even how to convert my currency to get a bottle of water.  My host is with me, so we find someT bottled water, have a little lunch, and then go to the church to give the class for the day.

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I’m at the International Prayer Center in Paso Canoas, Costa Rica.

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The church is in the process of remodeling.  Half the roof is missing, which becomes painfully obvious a few hours later during a torrential thunderstorm.  Here, most churches don’t go into debt to fund remodeling.  They just live with incomplete projects until they raise enough money to tackle the next part.

A class 13-14 people gather here on monthly basis for the mission institute that I teach for here in Panama.  They pray for my headache to be gone, which it does.  We meet in a little covered classroom off to the side of the sanctuary.  Gratefully, a floor fan is located for me so I that I can stay somewhat cool.

After some introductions, we walk through some discussion questions.

What is Evangelism?

“Go and speak the good news to those who haven’t heard.”

“Go and bring people to church, give them information about salvation.”

“Sow the seed of the love of Christ.”

Why is Evangelism Difficult?

These answers roll of the tongue pretty quickly.  When we move to challenges to evangelism – the answers roll out even faster.

What right do I have to call people to repentance?

They don’t listen to me.

I don’t know WHAT I can say?

What are the challenges in the church?

Notice I didn’t ask them about their church, but the church in general.  People are more apt to speak of their difficulties if it’s more collective.

People are comforatble with their own church.

Lack of knowledge and passion.

Lack of training.

Compartmentialized only to gifted evangelists.

Full Time evangelists don’t have enough economic support.

No cooperation with the Holy Spirit.

These things are a little harder to get out, but once they start talking, it flows well.

What is the fruit of evangelism?

I wanted to probe to see what is the goal for evangelism.  The answers were

Repentance

A prayer.

Genuine Repentance.

This intrigued me as non of the answers spoke of the beginning of a discipleship process or any kind of conection to the local church.  We covered this discussion for a while, and talked about the relational value of intentional small groups to help connect people.

I described a feature of Latin American evangelism that I have observed – call for a decision, but no or little effort to connect to a church.  While everyone agreed with that observation, there wasn’t much more discussion about it.

What are the means of evangelism?

I was surprised by the answers of this group – it was all program driven and non-relational

By children

Tracts and door to door

Street Evangelism in the parks.

Leadership classes to train people in confrontational evangelism

Meeting social needs by medical clinics, food panties, tutoring.

In these answers, which are all good, what is missing is 1-1 relational evangelism in the course of ordinary life.

This answer caught be my surprise, and as I’ve been talking with many different pastors these last few months, I’m not off base in my observation – this suggests a need for personal evangelism training that is not a program, but a part of ordinary life – raising awareness of such opportunities.

The Lecture

Eventually, I moved into my lecture, but was drowned out by a slamming rainstorm that reverberated off the steel roof.  I had to shout to be heard, and felt my voice beginning to give out.  Though my headache had left, my strength was still not 100% having not slept well and just returned from 7 days in Guatemala.

We finished up, and discovered we had just missed the 6.30pm bus back to Panama City.  We had to wait around for the next available direct bus which put us back home at 5:00am, right where I had left at 10pm two nights before.  30 hours after my departure, I was back home.

Vale la pena

Was it worth a 30 hour round trip to teach a group of 13 church leaders, in Spanish, for just 3 hours, and spending $50 in expenses?

In terms of a use of time – likely not.  There are probably better ways.

But in terms of being available to these pastors and to motivate their work for the kingdom of God where they are – you bet.

I’ll be visiting them again 3 more times this year, and will seek to fill out the weekend with some additional preaching to use more time out there.

Yes, it’s worth it.  This is the center of our calling and that’s while we are pushing through the challenges we face.

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Missions Congress: Casa De Oración Panama

August 30, 2009 by ecoach Leave a Comment

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Pastormario “I want to thank you for being a part of what God is doing here at our church.

The work of raising awareness of missions is not easy in our country.  We are glad to have met you, and as we are all co-laborers in the kingdom of God we want to work with you in the future.

We believe that God has brought you here to help us, and God permitting, let’s work together to use each others strengths to advance God’s work here in Panama and around the world.

We know that in God’s sovereignty, He’s permitted us to work together for His glory and I look forward to how we can help each other in the future.”

Mario Vásquez
Missions Pastor
Casa de Oración, Panama

This is the general gist of what Pastor Mario said after the second day of the missions congress at Casa de Oración Cristiana, Panama on August 29, 2009

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I was invited to be part of a team of expositors from

  • Costa Rica
  • United States
  • El Salvador
  • Panama
  • Honduras

to share specifically on the Role/Work of Youth through the Bible, history, and now in world missions.  That was such a big theme to cover in 75 minutes.  I had approximately 60-70 people attend my workshop.

Other workshops focused on the work of missions, working with handicapped, working with the youth, and working as business owners to generate funds for missions.

As a four day event, this missions congress was wonderfully organized with an international collection of speakers.  The church streams its services live over the Internet and as I write this, I’m listening to one of the plenary speakers wrap up the congress by speaking of global missions through the book of Jonah.

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One of the challenges to global missions in Panama is a common phrase: “We need to reach Panama first.”

But one of our speakers called out this excuse and exposed it for what it is:

“What if our North American friends waited to reach the US before coming to Panama to bring us the good news?

What if our European friends waited to reach their own country before coming to Panama?

We’d still be lost in our sins, waiting to hear the good news from somewhere.  Those missionaries who came to us from Europe and the Americas didn’t hide behind the excuse that they needed to reach their own country first. . . .

Neither can we hide.  If we are called to global missions, we need to go!”

The Foursquare denomination chose Panama as it’s first mission field in the early part of the 1900s.  Methodists, Church of God, Assemblies of God, Baptists all came along as well, bringing the gospel message.

Panama owes a lot of its Christian heritage in the last 100 years to missionaries who came from other countries and were willing to learn it’s language and communicate the outrageous grace of God.

Filed Under: Ministry, Panama

Presbyterian Pastors Conference

August 27, 2009 by ecoach Leave a Comment

Beginning on Tuesday morning, the pastor’s training camp began.  Our team had been invited by the moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Guatemala (pictured below)  to come and share particularly on the person and work of the Holy Spirit.

Moderator Yenner Tuesday

Pastors began to arrive and we gathered for lunch.

We shared the teaching time with another speaker, but various circumstances prevented us from actually networking with him.

Pastors, elders, and seminary students, along with some of the wives gathered at the camp.

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We met Ana (pictured in the blue blouse), who arrived just before our 4.00 session.

Chris began and spoke on the topic of who is the Holy Spirit and the four works of the Spirit as a foundational review.

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Chris Teaching
In response to prayer with our intercessors, we were led to specifically talk about how presbyterian we were.

So we included time about my ordination, and some of my journey to faith.  We talked about the extremes between ignoring the Holy Spirit, and overempahsizing the Spirit and it’s resultant emotionalism.

We concluded on time.  I had them break into 3s for prayer, to leave burdens home and then generally pray for openness to what God wanted to do.

During our team meeting that night (Ana had to go home), we discerned there was some defensiveness in the audience.  We knew that we were not going to be on the same tract as the main speaker.

We prayed that God would give us wisdom to think on our feet, that minds would stay open, and we prayed through our teaching plan for the next day.

Wednesday

Sam led off with our foundational teaching on kairos moments – what are they and how do they work.

This moment of cooperation is foundational to understanding how to cooperate with the Holy Spirit and how to experience the working of the Spiritual Gifts.

This was good basic reformed theology, though we could tell that the idea of cooperating with God in working in the kingdom still stirred up some defensiveness.

Do we have the privilege of cooperating with God?  Aren’t our works already an expression of what God is doing?

For some, this teaching presented theological challenges.

Sam Teaching

We took a break and then Chris moved into the function/vocational gifts teaching.

Again, we stressed how Presbyterian we were and helped connect examples of how these gifts might often be used already by our audience.  Some were skeptical, but polite.

As a group, they didn’t talk much.  They weren’t responsive with Q&A or when we asked them questions.  We were not sure how to read or interpret that.  Later we figured out that people would corner us 1-1 to ask their questions in private.  We saw a lot of spiritual thirst for this information.

The idea of cooperating with the Holy Spirit was a stretch for some of them, and there remained some confusion of the Spirit within/upon distinction that is foundational to the entire Dunamis series.  The questions that were asked turned out to be along those lines.

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Wedneday afternoon – powerful prayer ministry.

The other speaker used 30 minutes of our time, so we lost some time to teach.

Sam continued to talked about the manifestational gifts and being filled with the Holy Spirit, then we moved into a time of prayer.  It appeared that those who were not open to the idea of the ongoing gifts left the room.  Those who couldn’t accept the reality of what we were teaching politely left and went outside.  That helped narrow down the group to those who were really hungering and thirsting for the work of the Spirit.

People were encouraged to break into groups, pray for each other, and then we broke up into teams for people who wanted prayer for the filling of the Spirit.

Sam and I were a team, Ana and Ben served as a team.

For some, this was a powerful ministry time.

  • At least two physical healings were given testimony with evidence continuing the next day.
  • One rested in the spirit (who had only been a new convert for 6 months).  We talked with her later and she described her experience as falling into a deep sleep and loosing all awareness.
  • Others sought out prayer for emotional healing, which we had to postpone until later in the evening.

Unfortunately the prayer time was cut off by announcements and dinner break.  There was no time to debrief, and some who wanted prayer didn’t get it.

I wish I could share all that God did that afternoon, but those are just samples.  As people talked with us over the next 24 hours, this seemed to be a turning point in the conference.

Our ministry style is not noisy or flashy, nor full of excess emotionalism.

We were simply Presbyterian pastors who are willing to take the risk to cooperate with the Holy Spirit in kingdom work.

We tried to keep our teaching as “down to earth” as possible, as well as our personalities and behavior — being ourselves; we were not some North American superstars with TV ministries that need money.

Dinner and Evening Ministry

Over dinner, I had a brief talk with Yenner, about the spiritual history of the Presbyterian Church of Guatemala and the presbytery.

The presbytery at one point had split because of the charismata, and churches were loosing converts to the pentecostal / neo-pentecostal groups.  Outsiders were labeling the Presbyterian Church “dead” because many are missing the “avivimiento” (maybe a liveliness or spirit-filled expressiveness).  New converts would leave after discovering that other churches had more passion in their worship services.

After dinner, I took the last plenary session of Wednesday night.  The final plenary of the day.  Physical exhaustion was clear.  People were tired of information.

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I used some of the time to clearly debrief the experiences before dinner and walk through the 4 tests of discernment that PRMI uses.

I felt led at the moment to describe how I became a Presbyterian pastor, and how I came under the authority of the word of God.

A lady who experienced a physical healing offered to let us use her as a case study and the 4 discernment tests.  This modeled how we could follow the tests of discernment, and keep the prayer times non-emotional.

I’m not sure how well the last teaching connected with people, they were just soooo tired.

It focused on How Does the Holy Spirit talk to us?  We looked at examples from Scriptures as we explored some of the mechanics of  HOW we might hear God’s voice.

We had another time of prayer ministry and got to do some 1-1 prayer ministry out of that.

In the case with Sam and I, we dealt with two men for some inner healing and some deep issues of forgiveness.  Some good emotional healing.  I simply served as as translator.  Sam threw me for a loop with some word choices I couldn’t translate, and I simply tried my best to explain it rather than translate it.

Ben and Ana did some prayer counseling for a young woman who received some emotional, but incomplete, healing.  The evidence was very clear the next day as we checked in with people.

Thursday, our last day.

We were scheduled to have about 1 hour of time, but the other expositor used not only his time, but all of ours .

So we didn’t have a chance to wrap anything up or debrief.

The camp schedule had some tourism time built into it before lunch, so we went to the shore of lake Amatitlan.  Unfortunately, the lake is polluted and nutrient imbalanced, so algae slime was really thick.  What was a pristine lake a few decades ago has now been ruined.  Efforts are underway to restore it, but it will take a few decades for sure.

We used the time to speak with a few of the conference participants about what the event meant for them.

One man in particiular gave us some of Guatemala history, particularly about it’s relationship with neighboring Belize, which he said a former president sold to the UK.  In ’74, Guatemala raised an army to invade Belize in an attempt to recapture it as Guatemalan territory, but a major earthquake destroyed Guatemala City and all efforts moved to relief rather than invasion.

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After lunch, we traded some goodbyes and had some processing time as a team.  Praying about next steps and what should follow.

Finally, we went home on Friday on safe and uneventful flights.

See also:

  • Presbyterian Pastors Conference
  • Sunday Preaching at Central Presbyterian
  • Travelling to Guatemala

Filed Under: Ministry, Teaching

Sunday Preaching at Central Presbyterian

August 27, 2009 by ecoach 1 Comment

Sunday

The Presbyterian Church of Guatemala invited us to speak at their pastors training camp later in the week.

But for reasons of cheaper airfare, we flew in on Saturday, and then I was given the opportunity to preach two services at Iglesia Central Presbyterian, in zone one, across from the equivient to Capital Hill and next to the President’s working offices.

[more of the experience below]

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Approximately 500 people attended the two services.  I got to preach in Spanish.  It was recorded, so if you want one, please ask and I’ll send it to you.

Liturgy was followed from the bulletin, using a blend of hymns and contemporary Spanish worship songs.

This church had a new experience for me: the prayer time.  People were invited to the front to pray before the preaching of the word.  The pulpit is on a raised platform, which had kneelers in front of it.  This helped people come and kneel at the front.  The elders came to lay hands and pray for individuals.  I went up to spend some time praying, and two of the elders came by to pray for me.

I’m convinced that their prayers were guided by the Holy Spirit as they touched only on themes I was praying about.

The rest of the congregation did more singing during this time.

Greeting visitors was a calling them forth, having them stand up and share their names into a microphone.  The whole congregation then waved at each guest individually.  Ushers went and put a VISITOR sticker badge on them.  I felt honored, even though i don’t recommend this practice in North America.  With the exception of the badges, we experienced this type of greeting at the second church and at the conference we attended.

I was put on the spot to try translating greetings from Sam and Ben.  He did his best, but I’m sure it wasn’t the cleanest or purest Spanish.

Translating for ben

Between services, we were wisked to Applebees for a typical breakfast and back for the second service where the process was repeated all over again.  For lunch we wanted some typical food, and taken to the Guate version of KFC.  We ate very well and then taken on back to the camp.  Unfortunately, we didn’t get to do much sight seeing in the historic areas around the church.

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The church had a 3.00 pm evangelistic outreach, which we didn’t know about and thus didn’t work into the schedule.  I talked with the elder in charge of this outreach, and learned they do a tract distribution, and personal invitation to a special service.  They’ve had several conversions this year, and are celebrating some baptisms and the Lord’s supper.

Sunday Evening

daniel2We were returned to the camp where we could rest for a few mintues before running off to a church, El Buen Pastor in Amatitlan.  A smaller church, about 150.  They were having their missions conference.  Daniel, our host at the camp is an elder.

We met their pastor, discovered they hadn’t arranged for a translator, so I preached again in Spanish. They were also gracious enough to move some flowers away from the pulpit so that I wouldn’t have an allergic reaction.
Preach at El Buen Pastor

This time I really felt like a kairos moment was occuring, but I didn’t have the autority from the pastor to have an altar call.  They don’t do that there at that church.  Had I checked in with the pastor ahead of time, I would have likely continued with it, but that didn’t work.

The preaching of the Word.

All three sermons were on having a personal devotional time and the richness of having a regular, daily time with God to gain wisdom for living.

Many people commented on the power of the sermon.  Those who said more than the cursory God bless you at the exit told me of how that sermon hit the spot.  Most affirmed my ability to preach in Spanish.  I know that GOd can use the scripture, even if I’m not always gramattically correct.

I remember seeing different social classes all worshipping together.  Shaking hands with people from nearly all age groups.  Dressed to the 9s and as campesinos who don’t have much.  People saying things like “That sermon meant a lot to me”  “This was a good reminder to me that I need to get back into the word.”\

God’s generous protection and provision

After evening church, we were taken again to Pollo Campero, the Guate version of KFC.  A nice meal with Daniel and his wife. We told all sorts of preacher jokes, with me serving as a translator.

Some jokes didn’t translate without an explanation of the pun, and I had to deal with some really hard words going to Spanish, but we laughed alot.

While we were eating, the fuse box in the car under the passenger seat caught fire and the car couldn’t start.  (Below is not our car, but a visual representation of the fire damage).

We thanked God that our fire driven breakdown occurred

  • In a well lit and crowded parking lot
  • In a parking lot with 24 hour security
  • While we were inside the restaurant and not in the car
  • That we were close to the camp for easy pick-up
  • That the fire didn’t spread to the cabin of the car.

Daniel made arrangements for us to be picked up.  On the way home, our driver on the way home said this town is very dangerous to walk in as a stranger. While we felt no danger, we were not ever allowed to be alone outside the camp.  We heard stories of bus driver assassinations (about 2 a day, down from 5 a day), and read lots of state department warnings about the violent crime rate.  We noticed that our hosts were taking to us to well developed and secure places to eat and kept us away from places that wouldn’t be wise to be in as a foreigner.

We passed the rest of the evening in prayer — wondering about spiritual warfare.

  • Power problems coming in and out at the camp,
  • Camera batteries running out,
  • Supplies being left in our home countries
  • Car fuse box shorting out.
  • Even during one of our prayer meetings, the lights went out.

Daniel mentioned later that the power problems were a new issue that hadn’t happened before.  Having learned that the camp had been a Mayan sacrifical ground, we took some authority and asked the Lord to clear a space for us to work in and for his spirit to move.  Conincidentially, the lights came back on.  We asked our intercessors to be praying along those lines, not wanting to deal with any spiritual warfare locally.

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Monday: Antiguo Gautemala.

A day of tourism.  Daniel took us to the old city, established in the 1500s if not sooner, but destroyed by earthquake and a resulting flood.  We walked around, and it reminded me much of Cuszco Peru.

Antiguo

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Visited ruins of the central church, had a great lunch of typical food, and we spent some time talking with Daniel about his view on the state of the church.

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Had our picture taken with some local women dressed in typical garb, and simply passed the day.  We continued telling jokes and generally building a relationship.

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Praying for the conference.

We spent time as a team praying for God’s will to be done, praying for the camp, continuing to pray that God would create an open space for His spirit to work.

Our intercessors were guiding us to pray about thinking on our feet and seeing spiritual reality.  We kept asking God to show us how to think on our feet, and how to network with people.  Knowing that some of our teaching material would be new, we kept praying for receptivity and open minds.

See Also:

  • Presbyterian Pastors Conference
  • Sunday Preaching at Central Presbyterian
  • Travelling to Guatemala

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Travelling to Guatemala

August 27, 2009 by ecoach 2 Comments

Here in August of 2009, I led a team of 3 to Guatemala at the invitation of the moderator of the Presbyterian Church.

Following up on a presentation last year by another member of the PRMI ministry, we were invited to address their annual pastors training event at Mt. Zion Camp, about 45 minutes away from the airport in Guatemala city.

The whole story will be broken up into 3 posts (links active when others are published):

  • Getting to Guatemala
  • Sunday Preaching at Central Presbyterian
  • The Pastors Conference in Guatemala.

Getting to Guatemala

My flight was a bit delayed, and the only other hitch was my ground connection was a little late.  My teammates came in on a Delta flight earlier in the day.

I was greeted by Pastor Alvaro (pictured below), the moderator of the presbtyery of Guatemala city.  We communicated well in spanish.  He spoke slowly with me, so that I could understand everything.alvaro Ruiz presbytery moderator

As we were driven to the camp in a beat-up 4 door pickup, I saw many familiar sights as typical in latin america. Lots of painted advertising on cement one story structures, lots of pedestrians.  What was different was seeing alot of the women wearing Mayan traditional clothing.  Guatemala city is built on mountains ridges so the descent to the camp was steep and fast.  This is one country that hopefully has a good brake inspection system.

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Arrival at the camp

Mt. Zion camp is a beautiful but sligtly rustic camp.  We had indoor plumbing, but no hot water.  Some of the cabins had bathrooms in separate cabins.  Our toilet didn’t have a seat.

Daniel, the camp administrator welcomed us, showed us around, and turned out to be a great host.  With some instructions, he left us with word that he’d pick us up for dinner.

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We used the afternoon to unpack, rest a little from the travel.  He also gave us a tour of the office, some introdcutions to staff and the like.

Most of the staff lives on site, and each staff member has at least two chickens.  We saw plenty of those chickens everywhere.  Lots of dogs around too.

The camp turned out to be more humid than expected, and no where near as frigid cold as Vida Joven’s camp in Matagalpa Nicaragua.  We expected overnight temperatures in the 50s from weather reports, but don’t think it ever got that cold.  No jackets were needed.  Sleeping bags were too much.  We would have been fine with blankets.

The scenery was its own beatuiful vista.  The camp overlooks a beautiful but polluted lake.  From our distance, it doesn’t look polluted, but it was.  Algae blooms gave it a green tint.  No boaters on it except the olympic team in training.  Fishermen might be on it, but only for catch and release.  Common words shared with me was don’t eat it.  This is the view from the dining hall.

Lake Amatitlan Guatemala

However, mosquitos, roaches, spiders, bees, and flies were plentiful.  Bug spray is an absolute must, wearing it nearly every day to keep it at minimum.

Rainy season meant mud.  Mud tracked everywhere.  An umbrella would have been more helpful than a jacket.

In our cabin, flip flops were a must to keep your feet clean, but make sure they had bugspray.  I got bit something fierce on my right leg that may very where have been a spider bite.  About 10 welts on my right calf.

Food for the trip

Most of the food during the trip turned out to be wonderfully typical.

  • Pureed black beans and cheese with everything.
  • Platanos of some kind nearly every meal.
  • Corn meal used rather frequently.
  • Tamales, and they also liked some picante for their food.
  • Lots of tomoatoes, fresh fruit, and fresh bread nearly every morning.
  • The boiled corn on the cob, rubbed with lemon and a little salt was new, and tasted just fine.

We asked for typical food and had plenty of it.

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