This is a picture of the entire team attending the Guatemala Mission Trip that took place July 9-16, 2011. It is a combination of 15 students and sponsors from Liberty Church in Tulsa and 4 sponsors from Surrey Hills.

This is a shot of the front gate to the Common Hope Guest House, the facility that the Guatemala Mission team stayed at during their trip. It is located in Antigua.

This is a shot of the outside of the front of the Common Hope facility.

This is a shot looking out into the parking lot from the inside of the facility.

This is another picture of the team in a more relaxed state. We played a lot of games in this common living space throughout the week. The facility is open to the surrounding area making this living space a comfortable place to unwind after a hard day's work.

From the open balcony there was a fantastic view of 3 different volcanoes, 2 dormant and 1 active. This particular volcano was inactive.

The Common Hope facility is surrounded by private housing.

The volcano on the left is the active one and was smoking for the majority of our visit. The one on the right is dormant.

Sunday morning before heading to a more westernized Protestant church service, Nathan took us to Church In the Woods. This terraced plot of land is to be the site of the first boys' home, but for now it is a place to get away from the business of the world and focus on the Lord.

This is the view from back in the property of the Engadi Refuge.

For those who went on the trip last year, this used to be a steep hill covered in trees. The team last year was tasked with digging the trees up, and the building seen in this shot (and others in the album) is a product of many other mission team's work since this Spring. This building will one day house the guard of the property and all of the equipment used to work on the land and other facilities.

On our last work day in Guatemala, the team was tasked with pouring the floor of the guard house. The amount of cement used was equal to that of a cement truck and the work was all done by hand. Needless to say the project took us the entire day and caused us to be late for dinner, but it was so satisfying to see the results!

This is a shot taken after lunch of our progress on the concrete slab for the guard house.

In this picture there are many things to be seen. The shack on the bottom left is where the guard is currently staying. Please pray for Don Beto as future teams continue to work on his new home. The road on the right is quite new and is a picture of what is to come. The hill in the upper right of the picture is where the new team facility will be. This will house future mission teams as they come to continue working with Engadi Ministries and other ministries in Guatemala and will also be used for retreats and such. The land in front of the hill and behind the shack will one day be a parking lot.

Again, this hill will one day be the site of a 3 story mission team facility. For an artist's rendering, go to the Engadi Ministries Facebook page.

About half-way through the week, the backhoe came in and began working on leveling the land for the mission team facility.

Towards the end of the week, the backhoe had leveled 2 tiers of the facility's land and had marked off a line for the third tier. He was almost done working on it when a tire blew out!

Jessica Braudrick is hard at work in this picture digging holes to plant some bamboo. Nathan is quite adamant about keeping the land as pure as possible and had assigned us on several occasions some trees to plant along the perimeter.

Steve Cordes is helping one of the interns transport some sheets of iron mesh from the top of the property down to the guard house. This was done before we poured the concrete and was a bit more challenging than it looks!

Greg Peters is seen here handling the hose on top of the guard house. The building needed to stay damp so as to make sure the concrete would set properly as it was being poured.

Greg Peters and Tyler Huffman wanted their picture taken with their new buddy Hugo. Hugo is the brick-mason's assistant. He was one of the harder workers during the week and a really funny guy, too!

The beautiful 16th-century cobblestone streets of Antigua.

This is a shot of clouds surrounding one of the volcanoes in Guatemala from the streets of Antigua. The city is such a beautiful place!

This is a picture of a functioning church in Antigua.

The front of the church was covered in carvings of saints and some stained-glass windows.

This is a picture inside the church. The pews were open and there were a stack of chairs in the back of the room. A can be seen down front praying. This all implies that the church is not only functioning but is also open for public use throughout the day. A great place for the busy people of Antigua to seek refuge.

This is a picture of a church in Antigua that has been damaged beyond repair from volcano activity. In front of the church you can see people lined up with merchandise trying to sell to passing tourists.

This is another angle of the same church. The architecture throughout Guatemala was nothing short of astounding and beautiful, right down to the most damaged buildings.

Greg, Jessica, and Tyler stand posed in front of a fountain in a courtyard behind the Jade shop in Antigua.

Cafe Barista is a company known for producing the best coffee in Guatemala. They get their coffee in fresh off of the plantations throughout the country and process and sell it in local shops. This particular shop was across from the market square in Antigua. Cafe Barista coffee is sold by the pound and can be brought back by request from the mission team. For more information next year, talk to Greg Peters and maybe he can hook you up with a bag or two!

Greg and Steve are waiting to be fit for zip line equipment. The Atitlan zip lines are located up the mountains in Atitlan, Guatemala (outside of the tourist destination Panajachel). It takes 8 different lines to finish the trip. What a blast!

Here Greg and Steve are being outfitted by experts. Soon after this, they were briefed in zip line safety and special techniques.

A short drive from the Atitlan zip lines is the Panajachel tourist destination. The town is full of markets, shops, cafes, and other stands for tourists and also some locals. In this picture you can see 2 tuk-tuks, or taxis, making their way down the streets.

Greg, Steve, and Jessica are standing at the end of the Panajachel shopping streets in front of one of the most beautiful lakes in the world, Panajachel Lake. The lake is surrounded by multiple volcanoes, some active and some not.

This is a picture from within the slums of Guatemala. Zone 18 is a very poor and very broken zone in need of much love and support. Engadi Ministries is building their Refuge and Ranch with the boys of this zone in mind. They are the driving force behind the work being done throughout the year. Please continue to pray for those living in the zone and those working in the zone.

This is a shot of the streets of Zone 18. The residences are built along the mountainside and require a bit of climbing to get deep into Paradise.

This is a picture taken deeper in Zone 18. This is a typical street in Paradise, and you can see the quality of the houses.

These are the children of Paradise. These are the type of kids that are thought of as Engadi Ministries continues to work on the boys' homes.

This is our team heading up to Hierba Buena. The school hold about 150 kids and only has 4 teachers.

The kids here loved all of the cameras.

Shortly after our arrival, some "soccer balls" (basketballs we used for soccer) showed up and gave us a great opportunity to bond with the kids.

Not only did we play soccer, but we brought a football to use. And not only did the boys play, but the girls got into it all as well.

Rick Emerson, the youth pastor at Liberty Church, is seen playing here with a bunch of boys that jumped on the loose football. Fun!

Another shot of some sports action. It didn't take long for these kids to pick up on such a foreign game. We almost needed the pads after all!

While some of the kids ran around with the sports balls, most of them flocked to the girls to play other, less intense games.

Scott Briggs, one of the summer interns for Engadi, is teaching the kids of special soccer techniques.

Tyler Huffman takes his picture with a group of kids who enjoyed trying to communicate with the missionaries.

A young boy is kicking around a soccer ball by himself as the other kids line up for lunch.

After Nathan shared the gospel with the kids of Hierba Buena, they went through a line to receive some food and candy for the day.

Here two kids are wandering what to do next after picking up their food.

This little girl has been given all of her food for the day.

Here, four members of the mission team can be seen handing out food to a line of children.

After the kids received their food, they headed into their classrooms to eat and continue learning.

After a brief stay at the school, part of the team broke off and headed up the mountainside to another piece of property owned by Nathan and Engadi. This is the view heading back to the school.