Having Faces: Being Neighbor

I came to Guatemala with a Graduate Preaching Fellowship in 2004 to learn to be neighbor. I was ordained at the St. Paul Area Synod Assembly in June 2007 as a pastor of the Iglesia Luterana Agustina de Guatemala and commissioned for service by two Synods of the ELCA and the Global Mission Unit of the ELCA. I serve in Guatemala with the ILAG as a missionary and a pastor.

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Location: Guatemala

Wednesday, March 16, 2005

He left…

The spouse of one of the women in La Esmerelda, who was a Minister of the Word in the Lutheran parish, left his family—wife and between 4 and 8 kids… I am not sure how many there are exactly—a few weeks ago. She did not know that he was leaving, abandoning his family, his land, his church. Maybe he went to the States, he may know the route by foot, or through Mexico since he has Mexican papers from his time as a refugee. But for his wife, children, family and church… he is gone and they are without father, spouse, brother and Minister of the Word.
I do not and could not know why he left; I just know that he left.

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