Coming up this Sunday, February 28th at Concordia Lutheran's 10:30am church service all the trip members will be participating in a Commissioning Service in preparation for our trip in just a couple weeks. All are invited to attend.

Also join us after both the 8am and 10:30am services for sweet rolls and real Guatemalan coffee. Donations accepted and will go towards our trip.

We Need Assemblers!

This coming Saturday, February 27th from 10am till 4pm we'll be assembling craft projects that we will be taking with us to Guatemala. While there we'll be putting on a Vacation Bible School for 425 children (our numbers went up!). Supplies that we ordered will be coming in this week and we'll be assembling on Saturday. We welcome anyone who'd like to come by for 3o minutes or the whole day to help out. Any questions email Ann at asummerson@turbonet.com

Just 18 days till we're on our way to Guatemala!

Here's some info about why we're making around 2,000 witness bracelets for all the Lutheran churches in Guatemala:

Rebeca de Franco, our Guatemalan Lutheran Hour Ministries host, will visit every Lutheran church in Guatemala in the upcoming year. She asked about witness bracelets that could be used to tell the gospel story through the colors of the beads. When the Concordia Lutheran congregation heard about the project, they jumped at the chance to make a mountain of these bracelets. We have nearly 700 made just from CLC, and a Spokane tripper Mom and youth group are donating another almost 500. Kits are underway to get to the goal of 2000 by the time we need pack the bags on March 9. Each bracelet will be accompanied by a card with the meaning of each bead’s color and Bible verses, all in Spanish.

Thanks to all who've been counting beads, cutting string, trying knots and putting literally thousands of kits into bags!

Annie and Elisha count beads into kits for congregational members to assemble.

Ben and Garner cut strings for kits.

Garner and Shana work on assembling kits at the LSF Winter Retreat

Just 23 days till we leave for Guatemala!

Here are some of the things we've been working on:

• planning VBS for over 360 children!
• assembling several hundreds witness bracelets that will be given to EVERY Lutheran church in Guatemala.
• Continued fund raising including plans for a cinnamon roll sale on February 28th at Concordia Lutheran church in Pullman, WA
• tons of individual prayer and preparation (like travel shots, woo hoo!) as we get ready to serve and grow in ways we can't even imagine!

Thank you to all for your continued prayer and monetary support! Our work would not be possible without your gracious gifts!

I will be trying my best to post daily while we are in Guatemala in hopes that we will be able to share our experience with you! However at this time we're not sure of what our Internet and computer situation will look like, so please stay tuned.

Thanks!

A big THANK YOU to all who came out for the Spaghetti feed last Saturday, it was a great success! Thank you also to the Nez Perce Thrivent chapter for matching funds too! Here are a few pictures from the evening:

Our friendly $ takers; Matt H. & Anna

Matt T. & Ben serve up TONS of spaghetti...
Cooks in the Kitchen

auctioning off ice cream cakes

Coloring on the tables...

Good crowd