PC(USA) mission co-worker Karla Koll writes that Amanda Craft, another PC(USA) mission co-worker in Guatemala, who two Crescent Hill Guatemala mission teams worked with, gave birth to a son two weeks early on Monday of this week. Unfortunately, Omar Chan, Amanda's husband, has been in the United States, in connection with the PC(USA) Big Tent gathering in Atlanta earlier this month, and so he missed the birth. With no picture or name yet of the baby, pictured above are Amanda and Omar when the spring 2009 mission team lunched with them three months ago yesterday. Karla also writes that the coup d'etat in Honduras has not only removed the president but also unveiled attacks on leaders in his government and others who support or are seen as supporting him. Some people in Guatemala have called on the military there to mimick the Honduran military and topple President Colom, Koll writes. It also seems possible that the coup wasn't so much about removing the president - who only had a few months left in office and had only tried to schedule a non-binding referendum about eliminating the one-term term limits - as about going after Honduran community groups that have been a thorn in the side of the Honduran military and the country's affulent families.
-- Perry
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