Caminando Juntos

During 2023, our siblings in Christ endured many hardships: a drought, a tropical storm, the migration of many Guatemalans, and gaps in children’s learning and emotional health. Students and staff at the elementary school worked hard to close the learning and...

I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. - John 13:34 (NRSV) Our delegation from Grace Lutheran in Apple Valley recently returned from a visit to ILAG. We visited our partner church, Mensajero...

Prayer, presence, and projects… these are the pillars of our accompaniment partnership with the ILAG. Currently 289 families in our ILAG communities are struggling as their recent corn crop, their primary food staple, was destroyed by Tropical Storm Pilar in early...

Minnesota can be a cold place, and not just during the winter. The phrase “Minnesota Ice” has been used by transplants to our state to describe the adjustment prior to feeling truly accepted as a part of the community. It takes a while to establish true friendships...

Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality. At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. The goal is equality, as it is written:...

Congregations are still discovering a new path forward following the loss and upheaval experienced around the world by COVID-19. During the pandemic, Guatemala Friends gatherings over Zoom, letters and videos sent by e-mail to the ILAG for distribution to village...

Pastor Karen Castillo has commented over the past few years on how migration from Guatemala to the U.S. has affected the ILAG churches. Recently she answered questions on migration, and the following is a summary of her responses. She prefaces her answers to say that...

"One Body, One Spirit, One Hope" is the theme of the Thirteenth Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation in Krakow, Poland, Sept. 13-19, where Pastor Karen will serve as a delegate. She and Diego were recently in Bogotá, Colombia, to participate in the Pre-Assembly...