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Team Guatemala

Team Guatemala . An Overview of Spring Q uarter. An Overview . Guatemala City, Guatemala August 1-September 1 Organization and School: America Latina Job description:

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Team Guatemala

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  1. Team Guatemala An Overview of Spring Quarter

  2. An Overview • Guatemala City, Guatemala • August 1-September 1 • Organization and School: America Latina • Job description: • Working in America Latina K-12 school as English teachers and teacher assistants, running after-school programs, occasionally leading chapel and staying in individual home stays.

  3. Ongoing Work • 5,000 students between K-12 and adult schools. (Redistribution) • Relate to Harvard picture—where are the adults? Learning too! • Home stays allow us to be immersed fully in the culture to eliminate the “hero-mentality” by putting us on the same level as the community members. (Relocation) • Work is already being done! • Christianity is not a new concept • America Latina’s 60th Anniversary

  4. Cross-Cultural Challenges & Opportunities Challenges Opportunities • Language barrier (home stays) • Leadership • Patience • Outside of comfort zone • Homesick (not with group) • Building relationships • Relational vs. Task Oriented • Time vs. Event • Growing • Personally • Spiritually • Relationally

  5. U-Curve and Service Compost U or W-Curve Service Compost • The components of the U and W curve include the highest highs, and lowest of lows on your trip. • Everyone will experience these stages at different times • Be aware of your teammates • Be encouraging and supportive • Be flexible and open • Be in touch with God • WATER • Wash and Rejuvenate • Nourishment • HEAT • A Burning Desire • Cleanser • HUMUS • What Sustains the Fire • “Cure” • LOVE • A Process

  6. Short-Term Missions Challenges Benefits • Building relationships • Serving the long term missionaries • Learning and growing because of your experience • Getting to know God better and learning to love as He loves • Seeing God through the lens of another culture (White Jesus) • Hero-Complex • Giving them what you think they need • Not listening to what they really need • De-humanizing the people you are working with • Thinking you are going to change their lives/country • Expectations

  7. Poverty, Injustice & Oppression • Poor health care • High infant mortality rates • Low literacy rates • History of immigrating legally and illegally to Mexico, U.S and Canada because of: • Lack of economic opportunity • Political instability • Natural disasters • Active duty members of armed forces are not allowed to vote • Ongoing drug cartel and gang violence

  8. Educating the Nation • Education • Meeting people where they’re at • A Different System: • Cultural Awareness

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