Hi Folks

Sorry for being so slow on the draw these days. We are on the last day of working with the Short Term Missions team from the Crowsnest Christian Centre which is our home church. We are both very tired and have the weekend and all of next week filled with activities that have to be done before the next team arrives on March 1. The team is from Cornerbrook NFLD so I expect that there will be no shortage of laughing.

Our internet is still not in at home and we cannot send out our current newsletter on Outlook so now have to type in all email addresses into gmail and then send. We will be late by a month for sure.

All the Best
Tim

Hi Everyone

Lots of team activity and recovery from team events. Our next team will be from our home church so we are pretty excited about their arrival on Feb 8.

Our daughter caroline is now visiting us and will be leaving Monday. We completed a beach day and visited antigua.

Trees for Global renewal is moving along well with the web site complete. We require the completion of 2 memorandums of agreement before the site can go live. I will be visiting the proposed first planting site on Feb 20 to 21 which could be interesting since the Nature Defenders are proposing different tree species for planting than I had thought we would plant.

Coffee sales are slow and I am still hoping and praying that the idea will catch on that this fund raiser is firstly a way for Canadian youth groups, church missions groups and other groups and individuals to raise money for themselves primarily and secondarily to bless the underpriviliged youth attending the William Cornelius Vocational Training Centre. Please consider a CoFE-Socially Responsible Coffee Sales for your groups next fund raiser idea.

Sorry for not writing for so long. Will try to tighten up on this in the future.

Thanks for tuning in.

Tim

Hi Folks

Happy New Year

We will be going to Mega Frater for about an hour of their 3 hour New Years Celebrations and then head home to host a small get together with a family. The main feature will be a spectacular fireworks display located almost everywhere in Guatemala City.

Tomorrow we move and are not sure if we will have access to the internet initially so if you cannot reach us for a time that will be why.

We are contemplating assisting in the starting of a new Church work in an old church building close to where we have been living. This would meet a heart felt need that I have had to try to interact more in the proclamation of the Gospel. This would be a private ministry in addition to our Calling but since we are all called to witness for Christ this could be a vital activity in our walks here in Guatemala.

Strategic partnerships are always developed based on friendship relationships first. We are building friendship relationships with 2 families from the USA and there is the possibility that both could be involved in the fund raising ideas I have been working on. This moves the fund raising into a far greater field numbers wise. Please pray for us that we will make good choices for the support of the William COrnelius Vocational Training Centre and advancement of the Gospel.

Sheila and I would just like to thank you for reading our BLOG and wish you the very best in 2008.

Yours In Christ
Tim

FELIZ NAVIDAD

Hi

Well 2 weeks at language school is over, fluency around the 10 year corner.

Had a lizard in the kitchen today and when we got home the lot next door was burning so we rushed to get the clothes off the line... but it was too late, everything smells like a nice camping trip.

Out for cell group supper on Friday. Christmas is coming and the tortillas are hot!

Saw an advertizment for Christmas. It showed 2 girls in swim suit tops, one in bright red and one in green.

Here is a picture or two to contemplate as the cold rushes into your kitchen when you open the door way up there in Canada!

Missing you all
Tim

So posting videos down here does not work.
Here is a nice picture of a sweety!

This is my second attempt at posting a one minute test video. Tim