Happy New Year!

"Sing to the Lord, bless His name; Proclaim good tidings of His salvation from day to day." Psalm 96:2
Hello to everyone and Happy New Year 2008!

So many things to catch up about as we have not posted in over a month.

We were able to spend nearly 3 weeks in New England over the holidays. Thank you so much to family and friends who's generosity made this possible. We enjoyed spending most of our time in New Hampshire. We participated in our home churche's Christmas Eve service which was a privilege and a blessing to our family and also were able to get to know our home church's new Pastor and his family. Pastor Terry Wragg was called to Fellowship Bible Church this past Fall and officially began serving at FBC in November.


Pastor Terry Wragg, wife Rebecca and children Trevor(right), Austin(left) and Chelsea

Please pray for this family as they adjust to their new home, schools and ministry.

We also enjoyed spending time with our son Adam who is now living and working in New Hampshire. Adam is currently working at Radio Shack and considering returning to college this Fall. Please pray for him as he makes these decisions.

(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
















2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great news on your residency! What an answer to prayer. psw

January 18, 2008 at 8:09 AM
Anonymous said...

Hey,
I'm very impressed with the blog! great things are happening (and challenging) in Guatemala! My daughter is there right now serving with a medical misssion team!
C&MC

February 25, 2008 at 6:05 PM

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