In Motion

His main concept is to teach his people, the people of Guatemala, to utilize the land to grow crops organically instead of going to the markets. He is always teaching three main programs; Organic Agriculture, Ecology, and Sustainable Agriculture.  He trains them on his 20 acre farm called La Fortuna (The Fortune). If he didn't train people on his farm he taught in Miami, D.C./Virgina area, Germany, Denmark and will soon be going to Bolivia. Just to give an example of how many people he trains and teaches, he taught 410 people just in the month of November. He figures about 40,000 people have walked through his farm to learn his ways of agriculture. His name is Lázaro Agüin and has collaborated with World Renew in giving training. His farm is in San Martín Jilotepeque but this is not were he became an expert in agriculture. It took him 20 years between Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and El Salvador to learn the skills needed to farm in tropical environments with scarce financial resources. He grows 72 different crops on 20 acres and it's all organic. He showed us some insight on how he keeps unwanted pest from destroying crops; he gets help though.....a lot of help. He has about 5 million little helpers. He feeds worms manure and they give him soil and worm urine. Worms produce great soil, and the worm urine is used as a pesticide. It keeps bugs, and other animals, away and even makes the crops more green in color. He was a great teacher and it was very cool to see the worm compost and other parts of the farm. It is the practices of Lázaro that is trying to be instilled throughout the farms we'll be visiting over the week. It was great insight for us to see and hear his passion of agriculture and it'll be interesting to see the other farms. What a great gift God has given him.
Because of the extended stay in San Martin, we decided there wouldn't be enough time to visit the Mayan Ruins. We then set off for Quetzaltenango. From San Martin to Quetzaltenango it is 103 miles and according to Mapquest.com - 2 hours and 40min. We were on the road for about six hours today- this included a detour for coffee. The back roads are very very rocky and steep and the interstate roads are very very windy. Anyway, we eventually made it to Quetzaltenango and met up with Sadoc, his wife, Becky, and their daughter Rebecca. It was very nice to see them and their new born son, Aaron, who arrived a month early, is still in the hospital. He is doing fine, pending some test, but please keep them in your prayers, none the less. Thank you and God Bless.

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Micah 6:6-8 "With what shall I come before the Lord
    and bow down before the exalted God?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
    with calves a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,
    with ten thousand rivers of olive oil?
Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression,
    the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
    And what does the Lord require of you?
To ACT JUSTLY and to LOVE MERCY
    and to WALK HUMBLY  with your God."