Plant Based Local Foods

          Disclaimer: Consuming raw or under cooked meats can cause food born illness!



                      Q: So how do you cook for so many people on such a tight budget?

                                   A: I have no clue....

     We must learn how to cook for 10+ kids and stay below our budget. If we don't then we have to turn them away. The meals these kids get at our home could sadly be the only substantial meal they get all day. So how do we do this? How do we we rise to the challenge? How do we steward what we have to make this sustainable?

                                     Plant based local foods are the only way to stay in budget.

                                      Plantain, Taro Root, Local Tortillas, Potatoes, and Eggs

     Our goal is to stay below Q100 per day. This is what we have for food, cleaning supplies, fuel for our truck, etc. With the current exchange rate that gives us $13.36 U.S. Dollars. We found that if we buy local food from local farmers we can stay under budget. God is good. We have what we need to survive and put food in the bellies of those we are charged to care for. It is not easy and I find myself asking what are we doing here? It is a very real struggle to be content, we often feel stretched. We have been extremely low income before, but there is something very different about the poverty we experience here in Chisec, Guatemala. We have roughly 50% more money than our neighbors and I have no idea how they put it all together everyday. I feel disturbed to my core.

     I am writing this from my laptop, on the best wifi I could afford under my electrically lit light bulb. 90% of our neighbors have no electricity, no indoor plumbing and cook over open flame in their living rooms... And I am struggling with contentment. All I can do is open my door, my pantry, and my heart to these kids as long as I am hear and able.

     There has been times in my life where I have been deaf to God's voice, or maybe he has just been silent. I don't know. I will tell you this though Every day I wake up in this place I am face to face with God's Grace ( yeah that's a capital G). I will never be the same. Never.

     My prayer is that God would raise up missionaries from within the church here. That we would be able to experience a mission centered revival in this city that would rival that of the early church. To bring in the fullness of the harvest.