Asbury Spring Break Mission Trip 1 John 2:14 I have written to you who are God’s children because you know the Father. I have written to you who are mature in the faith because you know Christ, who existed from the beginning.I have written to you who are young in the faith because you are strong. […]
Schools are a bridge to the community. The Paraíso Neighborhood has four elementary schools with different levels of need. By investing in the children we are helping them grow towards a brighter future. The academic school year in Guatemala starts in January and ends in October. Whether it be a single parent or there are […]
Newspring Church, Anderson, SC Spirit of Service, that is a good way to describe the the personality of every Newspring team member. On Monday morning they started by giving ESL conversational classes at the GIF English Academy. GIF comes to the Engadi Center every week to teach English to our Derek Boys. Guatemala is known […]
Mom’s Retreat As you know a lot of the women here are beaten down, abused, neglected and never taken into account. Many of them are single moms with lots of kids doing all she can to get ahead. No one ever encourages them or focuses on them. We’ve felt the burden to do something. Engadi’s […]
Avenue Men’s Team This title sounds like a squad of special forces! In fact, they are SPECIAL FORCES. They are spearheading all the projects we have this year at Engadi . Our friends from Avenue Church in Waxahachie TX sent their brave and always willing Men’s Team. This time they took on the challenge of […]
It can feel like the start of the year is a big, bad, wolf chasing you down with its mouth open full of sharp teeth. With the assorted challenges awaiting ahead this kind of image was pounding in the minds and hearts of the boys we work with. Engadi had the chance to spend those […]
Engadi’s English classes have continued to grow and deepen in Paraíso this summer. We now have enough of the boys within the Derek Program attending to offer classes all day on both Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Engadi Transformation Center. Seeing the tremendous response from these classes offered to the boys in Paraíso, Engadi felt […]
This Summer, we have been blessed with the help of three volunteers to partner with us throughout the months of June and July. We are thank fun for the abilities and talents that each of them brings to share with us this Summer, and want to introduce each one. Brenda is from South Carolina and […]
This week, Engadi hosted it’s first ever retreat for boys in the Derek Program. Some of the oldest and most active boys in the program were invited to Engadi’s Benaiah Home for a three-day retreat. Six boys were able to attend the event and arrived to the house Tuesday afternoon. The retreat served several purposes, […]
This week, the highest performing boys within Engadi’s Derek Group took a special outing to one of Guatemala City’s educational attractions- a scaled relief map of nations Guatemala and Belize. The map, which was created by explorer Francisco Vela at the beginning of the 20th century, is a 3D portrayal of both countries with mountains, […]
