I just returned from a mission trip to the village of La Pila in Guatemala. If you’ve ever heard the saying “dirt poor,” it’s most likely referring to this village. To say the people there are extremely poor is an understatement.At first, I thought I was going there to minister to them. But the exact opposite happened. They ministered to me.Let me help put their situation in perspective.Most children will never make it past the sixth grade before going to work in the fields, where they will make less than three dollars per day. At the same time, our average drink at Starbucks is three dollars and sixty-five cents. That’s for just one drink.We stress about what we will wear out with friends and change our clothes every day without fail, and sometimes multiple times
