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Team Guatemala . An Overview of Spring Q uarter. An Overview . Guatemala City, Guatemala August 1-September 1 Organization and School: America Latina Job description: - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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An Overview of Spring Quarter
TEAM GUATEMALA
An Overview • Guatemala City, Guatemala
• August 1-September 1
• Organization and School: America Latina
• Job description: •Working in America Latina K-12 school as English teachers and teacher assistants, running after-school programs, occasionally leading chapel and staying in individual home stays.
Ongoing Work• 5,000 students between K-12 and adult schools. (Redistribution)• Relate to Harvard picture—where are the adults? Learning too!
• Home stays allow us to be immersed fully in the culture to eliminate the “hero-mentality” by putting us on the same level as the community members. (Relocation)
•Work is already being done!• Christianity is not a new concept• America Latina’s 60th Anniversary
Cross-Cultural Challenges & Opportunities
• Language barrier (home stays)• Leadership • Patience • Outside of comfort zone• Homesick (not with group)
• Building relationships• Relational vs. Task Oriented • Time vs. Event • Growing • Personally• Spiritually• Relationally
Challenges Opportunities
U-Curve and Service Compost• The components of the U and
W curve include the highest highs, and lowest of lows on your trip.• Everyone will experience
these stages at different times• Be aware of your teammates• Be encouraging and supportive• Be flexible and open• Be in touch with God
• WATER• Wash and Rejuvenate• Nourishment• HEAT• A Burning Desire • Cleanser • HUMUS• What Sustains the Fire • “Cure”• LOVE• A Process
U or W-Curve Service Compost
Short-Term Missions• Building relationships• Serving the long term
missionaries • Learning and growing
because of your experience• Getting to know God better
and learning to love as He loves• Seeing God through the lens
of another culture (White Jesus)
Challenges Benefits • Hero-Complex• Giving them what you think
they need• Not listening to what they
really need• De-humanizing the people
you are working with • Thinking you are going to
change their lives/country • Expectations
Poverty, Injustice & Oppression• Poor health care• High infant mortality rates• Low literacy rates• History of immigrating legally
and illegally to Mexico, U.S and Canada because of:
1. Lack of economic opportunity 2. Political instability3. Natural disasters• Active duty members of
armed forces are not allowed to vote
• Ongoing drug cartel and gang violence
Educating the Nation• Education
• Meeting people where they’re at
• A Different System:• Cultural Awareness
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