Simply a cup of coffee

I have kept putting off writing this blog, as we often do with good friends we have not seen in far too long. You keep waiting for the perfect occasion, the best restaurant, the right things to say…but eventually you realize that it does not really matter what is said, or where, or when, all [...]

Free Baseball

For our team’s social the girls decided that they wanted to surprise the guys. Our original idea was to go rock climbing. Only to realize that myself and Meridee are the only belay certified members of our team. Instead of breaking the surprise to find out if any of the guys could belay, we changed [...]

Return

Greetings from the Zacapa team! For our service project we went and had a cook out and fun day for the kids at a local apartment complex. It was a great day filled with lots of face painting, football throwing, hula-hooping, and good food eating.  We got to engage with a group of about 25 [...]

T minus 66 days

For this meeting I encouraged another member, Jessica Padden, to write the blog. This past Sunday our group met at Stacey’s house. As soon as everyone got settled, we got out financial updates. Half of the money was due that day. As we got our individual amounts, a few of us had some pretty cool [...]

T minus 97 days

Hey everyone? My name is Bryan Smith, and in 97 days I will be leaving with a group of  11 other people for the Lake Atitlan region of Guatemala. Our mission group has gotten together to meet twice now, and both times I surprisingly got something out of them. The first one was to meet [...]

The Wilderness

I hate traffic. Which doesn’t work out the best on the days that I’m running late to class at Georgia State.  This morning was one of those days. Stuck behind some of Atlanta’s finest drivers. The lady in front of me weaving in her lane as she puts on her make-up, talks on her phone, [...]

My Story from Guatemala

We testified not with the innumerable theological discussions I had imagined having, but with a soccer ball, some nail polish, and a few hundred pairs of shoes.