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Guatemala
Faith Expedition

Look At The World In A New Way
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Visiting and working with our global neighbors to increase understanding,
to share faith and encouragement, and to seek justice and peace

Participants include: Jim Shaffer, Mark Lancaster, Catherine Detweiler, Cindy Laprade, Beth Rhodes, Matt Whitten, Phil Jones, Barbara Zahner and Tom Benevento & Margot Zahner and Zacharia, and Silas.
October 28 - November 5, 2004


Delegation leader Tom Benevento explains the brutal history of Guatemala in the nation’s capitol.

BVSer Rebecca Allen talks with Pepsi protesters. The two men lost their jobs because of involvement with labor unions demanding improvement of worker rights.

Union Victoria

Picking coffee with residents of union Victoria

Dental Clinic

Mass in Santiago Atitlan in memory of the massacres in 1990

Day of the Dead in Santiago

Lake Atitlan

Trees for Life nursery, a BVS project in cooperation with the parish in San Lucas Atitlan

Contact the Brethren Witness/Washington office for
more information about Faith Expeditions



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