More invitations

We received invitations this past week from our friends with Amigos de Kek’chi and our friends in Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) World Mission. (You might recall that Amigos de Kek’chi is a coalition of North American Presbyterian congregations and Presbyterians partnering with Guatemalan Presbyterian congregations and presbyteries where the Guateamalan Mayan people the Kek’chi predominate sponsored the meeting in Nashville this summer that half a dozen of us attended.) Amigos de Kek’chi – before the late April Spokane gathering – are taking a group of Amigos de Kek’chi folks to Peten (mapped above) (April 17-24) – where many of them have partnerships (ultimately to Sayaxche) – to plan ahead several water projects and facilitate meetings between North American and Guatemalan partnership reps. Some of the folks on this trip will head directly to Spokane from Guatemala (see the January post “You’re invited!”). This one is awkward in that we’ll have just sent a mission team to Guatemala to explore a partnership with a Kek’chi group in a different part of the country. We don’t yet have people going to Spokane.

We also received an invitation this week from PC(USA) World Mission (partly from the small office where our two Ellens work). A year and a half ago the PC(USA) put together two mission-related events: the Mission Challenge, which sent long-term PC(USA) international mission workers across the United States to do mission education during the month of October, and – immediately before that – gather those mission workers, mission pastors, mission network activists, and other Presbyterian involved in mission to a Mission Celebration conference in Louisville. This year both will take place again – but the conference will take place October 21-24 in the Duke Energy convention center (pictured below) up in Cincinnati. Perhaps – on top of whoever will be working up there from our congregation – we’ll send some other folks as regular participants also.

-- Perry