The Hastings Family

Most of you know that this past year was a difficult one for us in the area of financial support. We are writing today to share with you the wonderful way that the Lord has blessed us. You may remember that a few months back we communicated about our support difficulties through a mailing and also through our blog.

Well, several things have taken place since that time and want to share with you that the Lord has provided for this need using many different people. Since sending out our letter, we have received one-time financial gifts from many people, some of whom we don't even know. Also, we have been blessed with some new financial supporters, again some of whom we have never met! Also, some of our supporting churches have sent extra funds. And just this past weekend, we were informed that our home church, Fellowship Bible Church of Chester NH, had it's annual business meeting and voted to both raise our monthly support and also to send an extremely generous one-time gift to us. Praise the Lord for the way that He has faithfully provided through working in the hearts and minds of His people, His church...the body of Christ!

Thank you to all. Please join us in thanking and praising God as He has once again demonstrated His unchanging and never-ending love for us through this answer to prayer.

By the way, have you looked at AMG's website lately? There have been many changes to the site these past several months. Please take a look so you can see how the Lord is working around the world through various ministry opportunities. There are recent news article links on the left side, even one about Guatemala!

www.amginternational.org

Much love in Christ, and for His glory.

The Hastings Family

(above) Together with Adam in Woodstock, Vermont over the holidays. We had three major snowstorms during our stay in New England and two mornings with temperatures below zero! It was a very white (and cold!) Christmas!

(below) our kids with their cousins during our visit

Here in Guatemala, we received very exciting news from the immigration department this afternoon - our residency has been approved! For those of you who have followed this long story and have prayed for us we thank you for both your diligence in praying and your patience. This process has taken more than a year and a half and we are very thankful that it is over. We have been assigned numbers for our residence and will be able to pick up our ID's in a few weeks.

Our schools and daycare centers opened yesterday and it was nice to have the sound of children playing outside of the office window. All of AMG's 27 childcare centers and schools are back up and running for another year. Please pray for our 400+ workers as they minister spiritually and physically to the 7000 children and their families.

We want to share a photo of a group of our "cooks" who work in Guatemala City at our largest school of 800 children. You will notice that the ladies are wearing new aprons. These were a hand-made gift from a wonderful friend of ours, Sarah St. Jean, who offered to make new aprons for all of the cooks in our Guatemala City centers.

Just an FYI - these 5 ladies cook and serve a hot lunch for 800 kids every day! And they're still smiling! Thanks to Sarah and several friends who helped her to brighten the day of these faithful ladies. They couldn't believe someone thought of them in this way.

We have listed several new prayer requests in the right column of our blog. Thank you for faithfully supporting and praying for the ministry of AMG International, Guatemala.

May the Lord bless you as your serve Him this year.

Love from all the Hastings