Dear Family & Friends,
I hope your year has
been full of adventures, new friendships and growth as mine has. Many of you
know I have been living in Guatemala for the last eight months. God has done so
much in my life. He has taken me from being lost and not knowing why I was put
on the earth to falling in love with Jesus, having a joy in my heart like never
before and giving Him my life to do with as he pleases. I have discovered so
much about myself and my Savior in the past eight months; it has been the best
time of getting away from everything and everyone I know and just being content
with growing in God and letting Him teach me what lessons He needs me to learn.
I only signed up to
intern in Guatemala for one year, but as the end of my internship here drawls
to a close I have been praying to see what God wants me to do when it is over. God
has given me a real heart and passion for foster kids, especially for the teens
in foster care. My ultimate heart and passion is to work with teens in foster
care. But as I have been praying I feel that God has been telling me to give
Him one more year of my life. So I feel like I am supposed stay here in
Guatemala for one more year.
My time here has been an amazing
time of building a platform that is going to last me the rest of my life. I
have learned the love of God and have felt His love like never before. I have
learnt that true happiness has nothing to do with what things you have; no, I
have seen quite the opposite. I have seen people that pretty much have nothing
and barely make enough to put food on the table yet they are some of the
happiest people I have ever met and some of them are the most in love with God
that I have ever seen. They choose to look past the circumstances that they are
in and choose to trust in God and thank Him for what they have.
I would like to stay
here in Guatemala until August then go home to Colorado for a few months while
the missionary family I am staying with is in the States for rainy season. Then
I’d like to return to Guatemala in November and stay for the year. To make this
possible I need to raise $15,000. I need $3,000 before May and $12,000 before
November. If you would like to contribute please make your cheeks out to Front
Line Kids with Amanda Culver in the memo and send them to Renee Culver at (if you would like to donate email me at amandaculve911@gmail.com for my address . All cheeks are tax deductible.
I have a blog that I keep updated
once a mouth so you can see what I am doing. If you would like to hear about
what I am doing over the months go to www.guatamanda.blogspot.com.
Thank you for all your prayer and
support while I have been here.
With Love,
Amanda Culver
