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Guatemala Update

We are having a great time.
The team is doing really well. We will complete one of the four houses all the way and the others will be close.

I had an accident with the satelite - it fell on my hand when a bolt broke.
I had to get stitches - fortunately we have two great nurses with us, so the put the seven stitches in.

I am posting pictures below, so only look if you can handle gross pictures.

Guatemala Update

I am posting from an internet cafe in San Juan - it is painfully slow.

The group is doing really well. Jeff Bormus is feeling sick today, but we hope for a full recovery in the morning.
The building is going really well. We will finish 2 or 3 of the houses while we are here.

I can't post pictures from this cafe, but there are some great ones.

We are having some trouble with the internet satellite, and hope to get it figured out while we are here.

The group is doing well, but getting tired. After working today we played basketball with folks from the school - it was a blast.

I will try to post in the next day or so or it may be friday at a better connection.

Doing Well In Guatemala

We arrived in Guatemala and are doing well.

We are now in the Village of San Juan. Toured our building sites and start working in the morning.

I am in a neighboring village right now, but hope to post pictures in the coming days.

All on the trip are in good health and good spirits.

More in a few days.

Off To Guatemala

The Pagitt boys (Doug, Taylor and Ruben) are heading to Guatemala in the morning.
Our flight leaves at 5:20 AM. We connect in Houston and arrive in Guatemala at 11:38 AM. We return home on April 1.
We are part of a group of 20 people from Solomon's Porch.
We will build four houses, install an internet system in a school, build a computer lab and do some construction at a day-center for physically handicapped kids.
In addition we will run a medical clinic focusing on the more than 200 people we have built houses for over the last 7 years.

It is an honor to be in the village of San Juan La Laguna with our friends from the village.

You have new Picture Mail!

You have new Picture Mail!

Dmin Group from Fuller

Here we are out to dinner before seeing the movie Pan's Labyrinth for a class discussion.

LA This Week

I will be teaching at Fuller Seminary this week. Ryan Bolger graciously invited me to teach class with him.
We start monday morning and finish on Friday. I fly out on the red-eye Saturday morning.
So, anyone in the LA area that wants to hook up some evening let me know.

Happy 16th Birthday Taylor Duke Pagitt

A ten year dream realized:

Not As Bad As We Suggest

I have been running a new smack recently on the idea that what we church people tell each other is not so much the case when it comes to the influence of Christianity and church.
I regularly hear things like, "in the postmodern world Christians are a minority" or "Christians are now the foreigners in a post-Christian culture."

But this is just not the case.
Christianity has never had more influence in the world.
I am not saying that it is all that we want it to be, or that the influence is all that good, but it is clearly there. And it has never been more powerful.

On the church side, people talk about decline. There is no decline in numbers. Some brands are losing size, but over all things are up even from last year.
And from 200 years ago number are way up.
Assuming roughly 300 million population, there are roughly half the population that is listed as church members. And there are so many churches that don't count membership in this way, but people are involved. That will more than make up for the people on the list, who are no longer around.

Here is a snippet I received in weekly email I received from Zondervan. The details to this can be found here.