trip is still going good......

We went to the prison yesterday and then climbed a volcano! Both were amazing, both were very hard. Lov eyal and thank you for praying for all of us... mor eto come I promise! KUTPs!!!

It was very funny when I was asked 10-20 times if I want a joint to smoke, heh... God is good..... even in people that are a little misguided, heh. love yal!!!! KUTPs!!!!

Guatemala Update!

Yesterday was probably some of the hardest yet. We went back to La Limonada to try to finish the was for the three teachers and also to speak encouragement to the teachers of the school, and then we did a few home visits and then last night is what killed me. We went and made sandwiches for the street children that live in and near the trash dump. I think there might have been two of the 30 that were not high on glue or rubbing alcohol. And there were all there and singing songs with this amazing guy who just went out there and loved on them with his wife/girlfriend. The glow sticks wet over amazingly! of course I am sure they really loved the trip of a glowing stick when they were high, heh heh..

please continue your prayers for us! We are going to spend most of the day with gang members in prisons today! Then we get to go walk on a volcano! If your reading this then I must say that we will never know how blessed we are. Never. B ut there is always hope in this world and life, and I pray that you can keep searching for it and find it! Because it is worth the journey and challenge of the chase! Love yall...soo much and please I beg of all of you, KUTPs!!! of us and for the world around you!

We made it here to Guatemala

I will probly only be able to do this once or twice on the trip, but I love yall and beg of your prayers. We will be joining amazing things that God is already doing, but the places we will be going are not place that most Guatemalans or Missionarys go, becasue of the gang presence, corrupt government, and scared people, but we bring hope and the liht og Christ. More to come later! God bless yall, and pleae KUTPs!

Off to Guatemala......

Well, I leave tomorrow morning @ 7:15 am for Guatemala...so please keep us all in your prayers/thoughts as well as the people God desires for us to minister to. Thank you all for making this trip a reality and possible! Now it is time for yall to all kick up the prayers a notch! Thanks and God bless yall!
I promise that there will be many stories to come after I get back!...I might try to blog while gone, but if not i will try to make up for it..and I can't wait to show yall the pictures! KUTPs!!!


Oh and if any of you have time..call Tiffany, I am sure she could use the company! Thanks!

so Harry Potter is actually good!

Well, I finally got to go watch it last night (this morning) and Harry Potter met all of my expectations...and they were high! So good news! Go see the mvie, it is worth your money and the story is just getting better and better in the movies. I know they leftout a lot to fit it into a movie, but I thought it was good, but then again I have not read the books and the main reason I went was for my wife. (i figure if I force her to go to mid-night showings of lord of THe Rings, then I must go for Harry. There were only a few people that dressed up like the characters, not enough for me to go back tot he car and get my camera, but still fun none the less.

So go watch it, the acting is great, direction great, cinematography great, and of course the story is wonderful. tiffany loved it of course and it is amazing to see how many high school and college adged people were there. I think think it was a generation that starting reading them when the first book came out and that is how old they are now. Anyway...now I have to go see Transformers. Man I loved them
as a child and I am even wearing a tee-shirt of Soundwave right now (thanks to Tiffany), heh... anyway yall have a great day, God bless yall and KUTPs!!!

Harry Potter...is it good, I would not know...

yeah available now...but not available to view yet!

So four of us jump into our car and travel up to the northern side of Cinci. to go watch a preview showing of Harry Potter! The ticket says: 12:10am 07/10/07....now to me that looks like the show is going to be LAST NIGHT!!!! Well, nope the theater is filled with either VERY worng computers or wrong employees! I went yesterday morning to go buy the tickets to the show (that I thought was last night) and the girl told me after I clarified several times that the movie was tonight (last night) and she said with another employee beside her that, "Yes it is tonight..it even says here on the ticket," she says! So I drove twice in one day all the way up to northern Cinci for very little excitement...so guess what...yep, we get to go back tonight to get to see the movie that Tiffany is dieing to watch! Ouch! Oh well, So, pray for us to be able to make it back up there without killing a theater employee!

this might need be my T-shirt the entire time while I am in Guatemala.....

This is the shirt that will do the speaking for you when you travel... at least the necessities, heh. just point at the item you need (hotel, money exchange, hospital, food, etc...) and then the question mark and your off, heh. Here is the link to the site that has the shirt explained:

Sunday Night Live with Th3 Waters......

Well, yesterday was awesome once again! During both Services Tiffany and I sang a duet ("The Valley Song" by Jars of Clay), and then Th3 Waters met up and served our King and The Kingdom by going downtown and feeding and getting to know the homeless and low income families of Covington. I took pictures and here are a few of them. Do me a favor and look into their eyes, there is something special in there...almost like caring for Jesus. It is such an amazing opportunity!







God bless yall and please KUTPs.....

For the entire set of photos go over to My Flickr. Thanks!

Guatemala MissionTrip Update....

1st off.... Thank you soooo much to everyone who has helped make this Kingdom Event a reality! Your financial and prayer support is amazing, and beautiful to witness God's love flowing through you all!

Financial support update! We are have way there! Woo hoo! I have got a total of $755!!!! Woo hoo! Thank you all so much and if you would like to still give please fell free to give via the PayPal button over there on the right for a non-tax deductible gift...or you can send me a check, and if you do want to make sure that your gift is tax deductible please send me (Florence UMC, 8585 Old Toll Road, Florence, KY 41042) or to Vineyard Central (Vineyard Central, 1757 Mills Avenue, Norwood, OH 45212) a check made out to Vineyard Central and make sure no matter how you give to put on the check in the memo line that it is a gift for D.G. Hollums' mission trip to Guatemala. Thank you all so much!

So want to know what we will be ding? Here is a few thoughts from those that are getting everything ready:

"We are so excited that you will be making the journey to Guatemala in just a few short weeks! Sarah and I have been working hard to make sure this will be an unforgettable experience. In this email you will find a tentative schedule of the week, some ideas for packing, and a couple of questions we will need your response on immediately in order for us to make reservations.

First let me give you an idea of what you will be doing while you're here. Guatemala is a country ravaged by violence, and just got out of a civil war only a little over a decade ago. There are so many broken families, resulting in a ton of gangs, specifically the 18th Street Gang and the MS-13. Part of our work will be to observe the work of the prison chaplaincy that Joel Van Dyke organizes and find ways to support them. We will also spend a good portion of time in La Limonada, one of the poorest neighborhoods in Guatemala. An amazing woman named Tita Evertsz started a school in La Limonada after spending several years doing gang ministry and seeing so many gang members being killed. Her work now is to try to prevent new gang members, and La Limonada is one of the biggest places gangs recruit in Guatemala. We firmly believe that some of the greatest kingdom work going on in Guatemala is with Tita and Joel. We will likely tackle a work project in La Limonada as a way to support Tita, either in the school itself or possibly by blessing one of her teachers with a bathroom in their home. I will be able to give you more information about our project shortly."

And here is the tentative schedule:

July 17- Arrive in Guatemala at 12:35pm, drop off luggage and head to Antigua for dinner.
July 18- Begin project in La Limonada
July 19- Finish project in La Limonada, visit Amor Del Nino in late afternoon/evening.
July 20- Visit gang prison in morning, climb Pacaya Volcano with gang Chaplains in afternoon, dinner with Chaplains
July 21- Free Day which could include Antigua markets, another visit to La Limonada, or Mayan ruins.

(The rest is still being planned.)"

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So, as yall can see we will have our hands full, but we are all getting very excited about the trip! please continue your prayers and support! Grace and peace to yall and don't forget: KUTPs!!!