New Viña prayer blog makes its debut

There’s a new blog up and running to highlight prayer requests for Viña Studios’ ministry, the audio-visual studio where I volunteered much of last year in Sololá, Guatemala.

Last week, my friend, Marcia, let me know she was going to start it, and I think this is a great idea! I’m really glad Marcia felt led to do it. I just noticed this evening that she posted her first entry, a brief interview with José Abél, Viña’s executive director. He shares some of his prayer requests for the ministry. Check it out by clicking here.

After seeing Marcia’s work, I felt compelled to let my readers know about it and break more than two months of silence for this space. Wow! Two months seems like an eternity considering I had been blabbing and blogging away with roughly a dozen blog posts a month last year.

Yes, I’m still back in the US of A now, and Guatemala seems far away, but I haven’t forgotten it or my friends there, and Lord willing, I hope to return soon. I still follow news from there via the online version of Guatemala’s largest daily newspaper, the Prensa Libre, and occasionally I hear from my friends down there. (Today's paper has a sad story about the high level of malnutrition among children in the Sololá area, where I lived and worked — nearly 20 percent.)

I’ve added a link to Marcia’s blog in the right column. Just scroll down to this image, which has a hotlink to the prayer blog. I haven’t updated the prayer request section of this blog recently (see the link just below Marcia’s on the right column), but many requests still stand so I’ll go ahead and leave it for you prayer warriors who can multitask and engage spiritual battle on multiple fronts.

Much has happened in Guatemala during the past couple months. I hope to carve out a little time in the coming weeks to bring you up to date on what I know. In the meantime, check out Viña's prayer blog and please keep Viña in your prayers. Thanks. Blessings!