United Methodist Volunteers in Mission
Columbia District, Tennessee Conference
Suchetipequez, Guatemala
February 2006

• 2/4/2006 - Flight from Nashville, TN to Guatemala City. Bus ride to accommodations at Hotel Bambu in Mazatenango.
• 2/5/2006- A visit to our first week's construction site (a new clinic), a bridge destroyed by the torrential rains of Hurricane Stan, and San Antonio Barrio Dos (where many of us built a school in 2004). We then worship at Iglesia Metodista Fuente de Vida.
• 2/6/2006- Trusses are built and raised at the clinic, and we begin putting up the purlins before the day ends.
• 2/7/2006- Most of the purlins are finished today, and we begin to lay the decking on the clinic roof.
• 2/8/2006- Construction continues on the clinic roof, and we hold Bible School at Iglesia Metodista Fuente de Vida. The dental team works in Chuisamayac, a remote Mayan village in the mountains today, and we all visit there when we pick them up at the end of the day.
• 2/9/2006- At the clinic decking continues and we begin laying the aluminum roof. We hold the second and final day of Bible School at Fuente de Vida.
• 2/10/2006- We complete construction at the clinic, view the work site for next week, and walk to see the swinging bridge over the river and some ancient Mayan/Spanish ruins.
• 2/11/2006- The drive to ChiChicastenango takes seven hours due to detours necessitated by last year's mudslides. Here we stay at Santo Tomas and support the Proyecto Metodista Ruth y Nahomi.
• 2/12/2006- After some shopping in the open market, we leave Santo Tomas and take our detour laden ride back to Mazatenango.
• 2/13/2006- Construction begins at the school in La Toma to build the concrete forms and support for the second floor, and we hold the first day of Bible School at Iglesia Metodista El Rey de Gloria.
• 2/14/2006- Construction continues at La Toma, and we hold day two of Bible School.
• 2/15/2006- We complete construction of the forms and support for the second floor today as well as hold our final day of Bible School.
• 2/16/2006- The schools in La Toma and San Antonio Barrio Dos have morning programs for us, before we head to Antigua in the afternoon.
• 2/17/2006- We take a walking tour of Antigua to see the sights and understand its history.
• 2/18/2006- A view from the top deck of our hotel, before we head to the airport to fly back to the States.

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