The thin forest of pine near Jalapa looks similiar to some warm places in the interior of B.C.

Here we have pictures of 2 different families, Tex with unique guitar pants and below a very poor mom and child with house in background.

Note that corn and pine are planted on the same slope grades.

Hello everyone it has been most of a week since my last short communication. As you may or may not know, Blog stands for weblog and blogs are set up for many reasons. This blog has been set up to give our family and friends opportunity to experience some of what we experience and feel. This is accomplished through writings and pictures. The blog is somewhat different. Although we are missionaries in Guatemala, we have a broad range of readers based on our support base which includes a number of forest practitioners. We do hope, however, that we are able to provide you with enough variety of information that you will make it a “must read” site and save the location in your favorites file.

In my devotions I have been systematically reading through the New Testament and have been doing this for 3 years. Over the last few weeks, many interesting points have required contemplation and today was no exception. We hear people talk about the great battle of Armageddon as mentioned in Revelation chapter 9. Well by the time I finished The Book of Revelation I was thinking that the entire book is amazing (I have never seen a movie on Revelation) and it would have been near impossible for John, the author, inspired and afforded a look into the future by God, himself to have thought up such an account. The Judgments described will be absolutely terrifying and although we cannot be sure of the order or timing of events it seems likely that many judgments will have been upon the earth before the great battle. So whatever we think or suppose about that battle during these times will be greatly overshadowed or molded by the events of the preceding judgments. Life will not be like ‘all is normal’ and poof… the great battle.

I am now proceeding back into Matthew where I find the amazing documentation of the lineage of Christ in 3 groups of 14 generations. In our society we are hardly able to identify our great grandfather and here in Matthew Ch 1 we have 42 generations tracked. What a marvel.

For those of you interested, we feel the following: primarily at this time loneliness is our companion. This loneliness is for friends and the familiar and is followed closely with feelings of being unsettled. This is probably because we are living in a hotel while at language school and are not able to establish a secure nest. These 2 feelings are followed by an excitement about what God is about to do once we move into assisting at the William Cornelius Technical Training School. Note the change in name from vocational to technical, this has occurred to satisfy government officials.

I promised a few pictures of the highlands of Guatemala to the east of the City. We traveled back from Jalapa (pronounce halapa) on some wild roads during Easter so here are a few pictures.

Yours In Christ

Tim