Carlos and others in the Spanish-language Sunday school class spoke briefly with Pastor Gerardo during worship at the Arca de Noe church Sunday morning. Gerardo reported that folks at the Estoreño Presbytery executive committee meeting last Monday were excited about the possibility of some of them plus others from the presbytery visiting us in Kentuckiana later this year. But Gerardo also reported that the one among them with a passport (Ramiro), who has been to the United States with his spouse, had to travel Guatemala City several times just get that passport, let alone the visa (perhaps in part as a result of being an indigena). (They also said having a bank account, which only some of them have, might be essential for obtaining a visa.) There was some ambiguity about how much we were going to support would-be visitors in their efforts to obtain passports and visas (and now unfortunately ambiguity in how much that could cost). We’ll hope to talk about this at our Saturday, March 12 Guatemala gathering at Carlos, Nora, and Ana’s place, which will take place one week before the next Estoreño presbytery executive committee meeting.
-- Perry
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