IT’S A NEW SEASON! After something like a pandemic, it is often difficult to determine when things are back to normal. One becomes stuck between nostalgia for how things were and the inevitability of new patterns emerging. We here at Global Shore have felt this tension as much as anyone this year, as our studentsRead more
Blog
RAISING UP A GENERATION IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD The town of Poptún sits on the edge of an elevated plateau of land in the northeast of Guatemala, about 500 meters above sea level. It’s a relatively young municipality—about 50 years old with a population of approximately 70,000. This is where Jervin and Jasmin movedRead more
Students are back (Again!) At the start of this year, we were so thankful for the resumption of in-person classes, which was something we had longed for since March of 2020. It felt like a return to normalcy after two years of shutdowns. We were getting back into the swing of things when the ministryRead more
On January 12, 2022, after being locked out for 670 days, our students finally returned to the classroom. The gates were opened, the buses pulled through, and the kids stumbled out, masks and all. The chaos of the first day of school—kids trying to find their classroom, their bus, the learning of new names andRead more
Summer 2021 Newsletter (Global Shore Opportunities)Read more
Spring 2021 Newsletter (Global Shore Opportunities)Read more
Fall 2020 Newsletter (Global Shore Opportunities)Read more
Summer 2020 Newsletter (Global Shore Opportunities)Read more
Spring 2020 Newsletter (Global Shore Opportunities)Read more
Fall 2019 Newsletter (Global Shore Opportunities)Read more