40foot Tractor trailler ministry

CONTAINER MINISTRY BACK ON TRACK
Most of you heard that our 40 foot tractor trailer ministry that helped us distribute about one million pieces of clothing and shoes a year was stopped two or three years ago by a Government agency. Recently God put us in touch with and Evangelical ministry that has the same kind of license and took HFTCM on board to help us get this ministry moving again. As a result the first container arrived from RiverStone Church, Marietta Ga at the end of May and another is now on it its way from the Church of God Canada Eastern. We knew God would open the doors for this to happen it was just a matter of waiting on His timing.
This is a very big tool used to reach out to those who have not heard.
Not all can go to the mission field or on a mission trip but you can become a missionary by organizing a collection of goods through your Church and making a delivery to Guatemala. This can be a very exciting project for those looking for a project to serve and also to donate good used items to those in need. Your project need not be limited to clothing and shoes as many think. We receive packaged food, medicine, bicycles, furniture, office furniture, computers, baby furniture, carriages etc. Let the Holy Spirit guide you. The only thing we ask is to please do not send junk or items that need to be repaired
We praise God for opening this avenue for HFTCM to once again serve in this way.
A big thank you to those who donated goods for these two containers. You will be able to count the numbers of faithful going through the gates of heaven.
Once again thank you for your lover, prayers and support, may you continue to experience the full blessing of God’s grace and love and if for some reason we are not able to communicate before Jesus returns then, we will see you in heaven.
Sincerely in Christ,
Tom, Elizabeth and Cheryl Leigh Allan
The pics are some of the recent sorting and distributing.

EIGHTEEN YEARS

Pic#1 A cake to be cut
Pic#2 Junior danse and praise team
Pic#3 Our little ones doing their thing
Pic#4 Cheryl leigh playing the drums
Pic#5&6 Some of the crowd.
HEARTS FOR THE CHILDREN MINISTRY &
MOUNT ZION C.O.G.
March 30th 2010 marked the real anniversary for HFTCM and Mount Zion Church in Guatemala!
Missionaries for the most part, when they are called to the mission field, and after preaching the Gospel for a season, are moved to plant a Church for the local population. Then many more aspects of the mission grow. In our case it was somewhat backwards. The vision for the ministry did not call for any Churches to be planted. Armed with the promise of God we set out to set up feed programs, medical and dental clinics and open a Mary Magdalena house for ministry. With no funding but with His promise we moved forward. It was somewhat a year or so latter the God directed us to plant a Church in the area we were working. The original Church is a circus tent, and our first meeting consisted of three children and a child’s toy microphone. Ask today and Elizabeth and I will tell you we did not know what we were doing. Just moving with our Almighty. Buildings were obtained for our medical and dental clinic in Guatemala City.
Thousands are passing through our medical clinics in many parts of Guatemala to obtain low cost medical attention and free medicine... Our food programs continue to feed hundreds each week. Our street outreach to the street people of Guatemala continues to grow. Many prostitutes are now off of the street and living liberated lives, some preaching the Gospel. Some ex street people are praise and worship leaders. A million pieces of clothing and shoes are distributed to the poor and particularly the children of Guatemala, each year through our 40ft. container relief program that brings containers of goods to HFTCM from Canada and the USA.
The story of Jesus has been told to unaccountable multitudes of children all over Guatemala. The kids for Christ club have about 200 members meeting each Tuesday afternoon with various activities and good food. Every Friday morning the garage of the Mary Magdalena house is full of just street people ready to praise God with song and dance. Hundreds of these lost souls have been led to our Lord. A good breakfast of eggs, sausage, beans, coffee and tortillas is served to about 175 people. They call themselves the Crazies for Jesus! We did not set out to deliberately set up this Church we just stumbled into it.
The last part of what God has called us to do is to build a temple for His Glory in the village where this work all started. We recognized the beautiful piece of land that was chosen for the building of a new Church but at time the man planting corn on it indicated it was his and he had no intention of selling. For fifteen years we wandered around looking at many sites but none became a reality. On day a friend told me there was a piece of land available in that village so we went to look at it and were astounded when we recognized it was the land God had identified fifteen years earlier. Looking back on those fifteen years we understand why God made us wait. We may be slow learners, but it is evident that we needed to learn a lot of things before He released the land to us.
The construction is well underway now with the first floor done and the second floor on its way. We plan to put the roof on very soon if the funds are available. Indeed a very exciting time
Once again thank you for your love, prayers and support, may you continue to experience the full blessing of God’s grace and love and if for some reason we are not able to communicate before Jesus returns then, we will see you in heaven.
Sincerely in Christ,
Tom, Elizabeth and Cheryl Leigh Allan

Follow up disaster Guatemala

The tropical depression hit land Saturday night that and the result of the previous three days of rain along with the volcano erupting 15 miles from Guatemala City has once again turned Guatemala into a disaster area. Not much different than what hurricane Stan left us with just 3years ago.It all started on Thursday afternoon when some say a minor earth quake 4.9 hit Guatemala, probably affecting the volcano. The ash and Gas was sent up 2000 meters into the air and spread all over the Country. Then that night heavy rains came as a result of the storm heading our way.
The airport was closed on Thursday afternoon and will reopen probabe Wednesday. I had a friend Art Fowler with me during this and we had to bus Him to El Salvador so He could get home Monday.
Here are the facts as we know them this morning.82 people dead
53 people still missing
30,000 people in shelters
13 bridges wiped out
120,000 have been evacuated from the villages. About 10,000 homes destroyed.
Schools are closed for the next week
Most major highways are closed due to river flooding or mud slides. Pacific coast road closed, interamericano highway closed.
One of our favorite visiting spots Panajachel is isolated from the Country again as the to bridges in and out are washed away.
Large portions of Antigua are under water and mud.
Most of the rivers in Guatemala flooded over.
To see more of the affected areas google Volcano and tropical depression Guatemala.
The volcano has quited a bit now only throwing stuff 250 mtrs into the air.
The storm as gone and light rain is predicted for today and tomorrow.
As far as we know all of our HFTCM families and those of our Church are OK, again the Allan family are well and in the graceful hands of our Lord.
We have been meeting over the weekend to look at what we can do and where we can go to be most effective. As we have a large back up of clothes, we will need water and packaged food stuff, any thing you can do the help will be a blessing.
Thank you for your love and prayers
Sincerely in Christ,
Tom, Elizabeth and Cheryl Leigh Allan

It has been raining for three days and nights steady in and around Guatemala City. Saturday afternoon we are bracing for a tropical depression off the Pacific coast about 40 miles from the city. The storm is heading to the City. We are expicting more continueos and heavier rain for the next 48 hours. This is causing mud slides,blocking roads and moving houses. Many of the small rivers in and around the city are flooding major roads and highways.
At the same time the volcano Pacaya that many of you have climbed with me in erupting since last Thursday, closing the airport and most business in the city. I have about 2 inches of black snow all over our property and infact all of our community of San Cristobal. The volcano continues to send gas and black snow 2000 meters into the air spreading for miles. One reporter has been killed by a falling rock. Only 2 other deaths have been reported. The US embassy in Guatemala is closed on Thursady and will try to open on Tuesday next. The us embassy advise is to stay in our houses and not go our for any reason.We have had to cancell weekend services.
We want you all to know that the Allan family is fine Knowing that God's loving protection is at hand. I will blog latter tomorrow when we may know more.
In the mean time may you continue to experience the full blessing of God's grace and love and if we are not able to communicate with you before Jesus returns, then, we will see you in heaven.
Sincerely in Christ,
Tom,Elizabeth and Cheryl Leigh Allan.

Short term mission teams

The post made of Scott willifords team did not identify the pics for some reason so here they are
pic#1 distributing clothes in a poor village
pic#2 distributing food to the bamboo hut people.
pic#3 painting the school
pic#4 patients waiting for clinic
pic#5 pharmacy
pic#6 med clinic
pic#7 marimba band

SHORT TERM TEAMS
Hearts for the children ministry was blessed in the Month of April with two short term mission teams. One from RiverStone Church, Marietta Ga and the other from Dahlonega GA.
Brother Scott Williford led the team from RiverStone being there eighth or ninth consecutive year visiting. This was Scott’s fifth or sixth year leading a team to HFTCM. 22 people arrived on April 2nd and spent the next 6 days doing a variety of ministry and outreach.
The highlight of this trip was a visit to the jungle a 360mile round trip from Guatemala City to a Mayan village called CHISEC. Most of the population there does not speak Spanish but one of the 23 languages spoken in Guatemala (Q’eqchi). We had to scurry to find interpreters to go from Q’eqchi to Spanish to English for our medical and ministry teams. All in all a very exciting time driving through the jungle. Our compound, cut out of the jungle where we slept and ate was in fact very comfortable. It was difficult for some to sleep with the crying of the monkeys and the large birds screaming at night.
Our mission was to paint a local school that was in very bad shape, do a medical clinic that lasted till dark, and a vbs. The team painted several rooms of the school as well as the outside. The medical team saw about 300 people and the VBS team presented the story of Jesus via coloring pages. A very successful ministry.
The team had about 300 lbs of beans, rice, sugar etc. On the way back Scott and I had the same vision as to what to do with the food. On the way into and Egolical Park we had visited further into the jungle we passed a village of buildings made of bamboo. We just stopped the bus got out and started distributing, before we knew it the people came out of nowhere fortunately we had enough for everybody. We were invited into the community center that was just a bunch of bamboo sticks held together by ties. One of the community leaders explained that they had no work and no crops therefore no food. We did pray together and were invited into a bamboo hut to pray for a woman with a broken ankle that was just bandaged. Our bus driver a Guatemalan, said this, where I come from we are poor, but compared to this, we live in heaven.
HFTCM does have plans to revisit this population and bring them seeds of corn, beans and vegetables.
The team had an exceptional experience of visiting a park that has a zip line down over the jungle and a lake drop line. We spent several hours visiting the site and having fun on the zip line and the water drop. The most exciting item was visiting a water hole with a cave carved out of the side of the mountain. The Mayans left a box inside the cave with the inscription; this place is the home of the God of the moon. The original box is now in the museum in Guatemala City.
Guatemala is such an exciting place to visit and minister, so put your team together for next year contact us and lets go (preach the gospel).

HFTCM MOTHERS DAY CELEBRATION

A MOTHERS DAY CELEBRATION
Mother’s day is celebrated with as much excitement and enthusiasm as in North America or may be more.
On Sunday May 9th our service was dedicated to the Mothers of our community. As you can imagine the Church was full on that day. The Holy Spirit took control of that service with a powerful anointing of the Praise and worship. We ministered for several hours to the spiritual needs of many. The falling out of so many had such had impact on the entire community. (Praise God)
A Mother’s day celebration in Guatemala is not a celebration without good food and games. There were many prizes for those who took part. Pic#1,2 some of our folks,3,Elizabeth being presented a gift by one of the ex street kids now a prais eand worship leader.

Hearts for the children&Mount Zion Church

HEARTS FOR THE CHILDREN MINISTRY &
MOUNT ZION CHURCH.
Many of you know that construction of our new Church started four years ago however due to an unfortunate set of circumstances the work was halted primarily for lack of funds.
Turning to God and asking for His provision for four years was an interesting journey. The workings of our Lord are so mysterious and at time seem so crazy. Because He is almighty we always need to keep in mind that He is supreme in all things. As we waited and waited He was choosing the people He wanted to use for this wonderful work. Again the most unusual people, from the most unusual places, to do a most unusual work
Our fund raising was low key to say the least. God’s was a much more powerful and in-depth move, that moved in the hearts of His loyal and blessed children.
All donations that came in over the past two or three months went directly into the construction project. We Praise God for all the hearts that blessed this project. The engine that God used to raise the majority of the funds was Dale Hajost and Due West United Methodist Church in Marietta GA. They do give God all of the Honor and Glory.
Although the funding that came in is a blessing, there are always over runs, particularly in Guatemala. We are at 90% of the budget and are calling on our Brothers and Sisters, allied Churches and friends to weigh in. We need between ten and twelve thousand dollars to complete this very exciting work of God. There are very few Churches in Guatemala that are as beautiful as Mount Zion. We are entering the rainy season and our Tent Church cannot hold up much longer. Whatever you can give will be a blessing to our Lord.
The location is divine, high on a mountain top overlooking Guatemala City on the same spot Tom and Elizabeth envisioned building a Church fifteen years earlier. It is a very modern two story building with lots of offices and classrooms, kitchen, washrooms, dormitories for visitors and short term mission teams. The temple is on the second floor with a capacity for five hundred or so. Ramps and washrooms for the handicapped have been incorporated in the construction.
Although the funding is a blessing there are always over runs, particularly in Guatemala. We are at 90% of the budget and are calling on our Brothers and Sisters, allied Churches and friends to weigh in. We need between ten and twelve thousand dollars to complete this very exciting work of God. There are very few Churches in Guatemala that are as beautiful as Mount Zion. We are entering the rainy season and our Tent Church cannot hold up much longer. Whatever you can do will be a blessing to our Lord
May you all continue to experience the full blessing of God’s grace and love and if for some reason we are not able to communicate before Jesus returns then, we will see you in heaven.
Sincerely in Christ,
Tom, Elizabeth and Cheryl Leigh Allan.
Pic #1 Some of the 5000 block needed to finish the Church
Pic #2 Blocking up to the roof
Pic #3 View of the first floor
Pic #4 Oh!how high up they have blocked!
Pic #5 View from the pulpit
Pic #6 Tom&Elizabeth looking over the plans.

Hearts for the children ministry^