Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you. ~Isaiah 60:1
CBC 2011 Team
COUNTDOWN TO GUATEMALA
International School Project
We have been invited by the National and Local Guatemalan Ministry of Education to conduct a teacher-training seminar in Guatemala City.
The overall purpose for this trip is to:
1) give the public school teachers a curriculum that they will use to teach their students about Christ and Christian ethics. 2) The Leadership Development Conference allows the invited, previously trained teachers, to discuss & share together how the ISP curriculum is changing their students’ lives, how they might develop more lessons, and how they might grow spiritually at a personal level.
All of these elements in combination give the teachers the encouragement and tools they need to have greater impact for Christ in their classrooms and communities.
Education
Economy
USA--Guatemalan Relations
More responsive, transparent governance, through:
- Strengthened justice
- Greater transparency and accountability of governments.
Open, diversified and expanding economies, through:
- Laws, policies, and regulations that promote trade and investment;
- More competitive, market-oriented private enterprises
- Broader access to financial markets and services.
Healthier, better educated people, through:
- Increased and improved quality of social sector (health and education) investments
- Increased use of quality maternal-child and reproductive health services, particularly in rural areas.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Moses....
However, as I have read through the Pentateuch's over the last few weeks, I have noticed how God didn't stop with Moses and his excuses. For every excuse, God had an answer. For every scary situation, God was with him. God had a clear plan for his life. Over the years in the wilderness, it is amazing to see the man that God developed from the man who fled Egypt in fear.
As I finish reading Deuteronomy today, I marvel at the way Moses' life is described. In Deut. 34:5, he is called for the first time the name by which he seems to be remembered the most, "Moses the servant of the Lord." It is his crowning honor. I wonder, what words would follow my name in the end? How can one achieve the honor of being remembered as a servant of the Lord?
In Deut. 34:10, it says that "there has not arisen in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, in all the signs and wonders which the Lord sent him to do...by all that mighty power and all the great terror which Moses performed in the sight of all Israel." As I read it, I am amazed how God transformed the man full of fear and excuses into a man full of "mighty power" and "great terror" by having a relationship with Him.
It is amazing what God can and will do with a life given to Him.
Natural Disasters
Guatemala's location between the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean makes it a target for hurricanes, such as Hurricane Mitch in 1998 and Hurricane Stan in October 2005, which killed more than 1,500 people. The damage was not wind related, but rather due to significant flooding and resulting mudslides.
Guatemala's highlands lie along the Motagua Fault, part of the boundary between the Caribbean and North American tectonic plates. This fault has been responsible for several major earthquakes in historic times, including a 7.5 magnitude tremor on February 4, 1976 which killed more than 25,000 people. In addition, the Middle America Trench, a major subduction zone lies off the Pacific coast. Here, the Cocos Plate is sinking beneath the Caribbean Plate, producing volcanic activity inland of the coast. Guatemala has 37 volcanoes, four of them are active:Pacaya, Santiaguito, Fuego and Tacaná. Fuego and Pacaya erupted in 2010.
Natural disasters have a long history in this geologically active part of the world. For example, two of the three moves of the capital of Guatemala have been due to volcanic mudflows in 1541 and earthquakes in 1773.
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