What we've been up to

You have been getting a lot of awesome words from Kerry these past 4 weeks; through our blog. God has been really speaking to her (in English and Spanish). She already preached in Spanish a few weeks ago and is planning to continue to write teachings and preachings in Spanish. She said that this time she has finally begun to receive revelation in Spanish. It is awesome to see her grow in her gift of writing, speaking and teaching; and now in 2 languages. We have been doing a lot this past month: prepping our house once we got here; a week of Spanish school in Antigua, Guatemala with the whole family; prepping for MTS. MTS started Friday Feb. 11. We have 5 students this year. Nicole from Ontario, Shara-Rae from Spruce Grove, Alberta, Reid from Westbank, B.C. and Dan and Ashley from Kingston, ON (they are the directors of Casa Alabbanza in Villa Nueva, Guatemala). We are just finishing our first week in MTS. We are excited to see what God is doing and going to do with these students. We have begun teaching with the Father heart of God. We are doing Generation Curses these last few days with the students and preparing for our first Outreach trip to Nicaragua and Costa Rica (February 26-March 6). It will be a long trip and are praying for everything to come together as we are still working out the details. The students are coming together really well and working well; only to be made stronger on an outreach trip. We will be working in churches, the prison ministry in Nicaragua that Fe Viva has and the school that Fe Viva has in Managua, Nicaragua. In Costa Rica we will be be working in schools, churches and the streets.

We have also been doing leadership training with the Fe Viva base missionary staff. (we are using the Heroes material that we teach in Canada and it is working great). We have been leading Monday prayer nights and attending a Tuesday night bible study with a local pastor and people from his church. My (Matt) brain gets really tired with all the Spanish, but we are learning lots. Kerry is teaching dance on Friday nights with 20-25 girls. It is going really well.

Our kids are excited to have the students here and are having fun in everything they do. They got some bikes and few weeks ago and are riding all the time on the track on base. I (Matt) has been training fairly well for the race fundraiser I am doing in July. On Saturday I am planning to run a 21km all uphill. We will see how much elevation I gain. I will post some video of this run. Check out The GOOD Run

We will continue to let you know all that we are doing here. God bless and talk later.

Matt, Kerry, Abby, Hayley and Liam