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Delegations 2025 / Delegaciones 2025
[Español Abajo] Delegations 2025 The year 2025 has been a very special one for delegations. As a team, we have witnessed how, little by little, we’ve been recovering from the challenges brought by 2020. Although there is still work ahead, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2025, blog, chichipate, decorah, delegaciones, delegations, El Estor, el salvador, Español, Freyburg, guarjila, guatemala, north to south, Santo Tomas, st thomas, UCC, UMC, wallingford, WUMC
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Guatemala 2025 Board of Directors and Representatives Meeting / Reunión de Junta Directiva y Representantes Guatemala 2025
[Español abajo] From August 28 to 31, 2025, the community of Las Margaritas 2, Ixcán, Quiché, hosted the annual meeting of the Board of Directors and representatives of Sister Parish. For four days, members of the Guatemala Board of Directors, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2025, blog, Español, guatemala, guatemala representatives meeting, guatemala-reps-meeting, Ixcan, Las Margaritas 2, virginia
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Southern Encounter & Open Delegation 2024 / Encuentro del Sur y Delegación Abierta 2024
November was a great month! We had the blessing to participate in the Southern Encounter, where representatives from every community in Guatemala and El Salvador traveled to Chichicastenango (Guatemala) and there, together with the group from the Open Delegation, we … Continue reading
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Tagged 2024, Chichicastenango, Delegation, el salvador, guatemala, open delegation, San Antonio Cunen, southern encounter, travel
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Embracing humanity and tools to build a more just world
Pictures and delegate reflections from St Joan of Arc’s visit to TN2 in October 2024. by Luke Nohner Before being embraced by the families of TNII, I didn’t fully understand what it means to be human. I’m struggling to apply … Continue reading
Building bigger hearts for 30 years with SJA and TN2
Pictures and delegate reflections from St Joan of Arc’s visit to Tierra Nueva 2 in October 2024. by Nancy Wiens My story with Sister Parish began 20 years ago when I met and married my husband Rick. He was already … Continue reading
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Tagged reflexiones, st joan of arc, tierra nueva ii
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Downers Grove FUMC visits UPAVIM // La iglesia metodista de Downers Grove visita UPAVIM
In July 2024, members of Downers Grove First United Methodist Church visited their sister community at UPAVIM in Guatemala. We share some pictures from the delegation and some reflections from the women of UPAVIM. I am thankful to God and to … Continue reading
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Tagged delegaciones, delegations, downers grove, Español, guatemala, norte al sur, north to south, upavim
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One in heart and soul // Un corazón y un alma
Patricia Cespedes-Schueller, a member of the Sister Parish Board of Directors, gave the following talk during a Sister Parish-themed service at Wallingford United Methodist Church in Seattle, Washington. The Sister Parish board rotates the location of meetings to visit current … Continue reading
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Tagged board member reflections, delegaciones, delegate reflections, delegations, Español, norte al sur, north to south, reflexiones de delegados, st joan of arc, sur al norte, tierra nueva ii
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Changing the way I look at the world //Cambiando la manera en que veo el mundo
Jan Heikes, a member of the Sister Parish Board of Directors, gave the following talk during a Sister Parish-themed service at Wallingford United Methodist Church in Seattle, Washington. The Sister Parish board rotates the location of meetings to visit current … Continue reading
We are called to love // Estamos llamados al amor
In April 2024, Danville Congregational Church hosted a Sister Parish Sunday that included special hymns, a children’s message about Holy Week traditions in Guatemala, video messages and prayer requests from their sister community in San Antonio, Guatemala and a sermon … Continue reading
Kathy Hawks: A letter about my first experience // Kathy Hawks: una carta de mi primera experiencia
[Español más abajo] I love to travel. As a tourist – for sure. But also to learn and grow. I lived in Singapore for a year, visited the USSR (when it was the USSR), mainland China before it “opened up”, … Continue reading
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