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After spending three months in El Salvador, we are back in the United States again. While we are excited to share with more people about what God is doing in El Salvador and spend time with family and friends, we are already looking forward to the opportunity to be back with the kids in El Salvador soon. Our trip went by quickly, but the growth and change that we saw in three short months is remarkable.

Since the beginning of the year, Oscar and Silvia have been working tirelessly to provide the kids with lunch three days a week, along with tutoring and literacy classes. We saw the fruit of their work because most of the kids attending the classes are new this year and we had never met them before. We heard stories of multiple kids who had not been able to read or write six months ago and have now moved on to English classes. We even spoke to one grandmother who told us that her granddaughter has learned more in the classes than she had learned during an entire year at school. 
One need we noticed when we arrived was math. Out of 25 kids and teenagers, none of them knew their multiplication tables. We made it our goal to change this, and devoted every Friday to teaching math and sharpening those skills. Alexis also presented the kids with an eight-week challenge. He promised a pair of headphones to the student who made the most points by learning their multiplication tables over the course of this challenge. To our surprise, a few of the mothers heard about this challenge and got excited as well. They wanted to get involved, so they donated money for more prizes, and even put together gift bags for every child who participated. At the end of the eight weeks, the top three competitors won a pair of headphones, a Bluetooth speaker, or $10 in cash. While many kids lost their motivation early on, we are overjoyed for the 6 kids who worked hard all the way through, and now know their multiplication tables, a skill that will serve them throughout their lives.
As we have mentioned multiple times before, Saturdays are particularly special for the kids as Saturday is sports day. We always looked forward to Saturday mornings with the kids, but we also went into it with plenty of prayer, because the activity always proved to be intense and exhausting. Teamwork and discipline are two key concepts to nearly any sport, and two concepts with which the kids are not familiar. In the beginning, most mornings ended with so much fighting that everyone had to be sent home, curse words constantly flowed from the kids’ mouths, and there was no sense of respect toward one another or toward us.

In the final weeks, however, we began to see big changes in their attitudes and behavior. While it used to be a struggle to get the kids to pay attention to the devotion before playing, they now know the routine and settle in without complaint. The amount of curse words has lowered dramatically and kids are quick to apologize when one slips out, and it has been quite a few weeks since we have had a fight break out. While they still have a long way to go, the kids are beginning to understand the importance of teamwork and supporting each other if they want to see success. We are incredibly proud of this lively group and cannot wait to see where life takes them in the future. 
We have returned from this trip excited to share so that more people can get involved, and we already have big plans for our next trip. We have seen how the classes are impacting the kids’ lives, and we believe that sports can be the next building block to lives full of love and health. Legalism has done a lot of damage in El Salvador, and we want to show people that Jesus is not the harsh judge that they have been led to believe He is. We have a long road ahead, but we are hopeful that these kids will have full lives walking with Christ. Thank you for faithfully walking this road with us. 

-With Love, 
The Rosales McGuire Family
Prayer Needs:
  • Pray for financial support and strength for our team in El Salvador.
  • Pray for the ministry and all who are involved. Pray that God will bring more people to serve, and raise up leaders from within the community.
  • Pray for health and safety each day. 
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