2018 Guatemala visits

Mutual visits have been a critical part of Crescent Hill’s decade-old partnership with Guatemala’s Q’eqchi’ Estoreño Izabal Presbytery.  Visiting each other has helped us sustain personal relationships, engage in shared prayer and Bible study, and learn about each other’s language and culture and faith.  At a gathering of Crescent Hill’s Guatemala Connection this past Saturday, it became clear that as many as four visits between Guatemala and Kentuckiana may pepper 2018:

-Sandi Thomson-Royer and Brian Thomson-Royer, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) mission co-workers who work with women’s groups and on domestic violence issues, will visit from Guatemala on the Souper Bowl of Caring/congregational meeting Sunday (February 4).

-For the second year in a row, a group from CHPC will travel to Guatemala to participate in the annual gathering of Estoreño Presbytery’s Presbyterian Women’s organization. Last year Soni Castleberry and Megan McCarty went, and so ask either of them about this experience.

-In early August a second, hopefully intergenerational CHPC group will visit Guatemala, perhaps for more traditional church visits and workshops.  Perhaps a visit to Coban, the cultural capital of Q’eqchi’ Guatemala, will be included.

-A couple of dozen North Americans involved in similar Presbyterian Guatemalan-U.S. partnerships, along with a few Guatemalans, will visit Kentuckiana during the week of Labor Day (September 5-8) for a PC(USA) Guatemala Mission Network gathering at our own Cedar Ridge Camp.  Mary Love and Soni are helping plan this gathering, along with our friend Ellen Dozier, and so you might ask them about this opportunity.

Join other CHPC folks as part of one or more of these visits.  All of them will require prayer and volunteering and financial investments, including from the congregation, and so listen sharp for opportunities to participate directly in the visits or to be involved in other ways. 

For more information on the Guatemala partnership, Google “Guatemala Crescent Hill” to check out the partnership blog.

-Perry