I AM GRATEFUL – GRACIAS SELF PORTRAITS By: Amelia Moore // Photography By: Emily Foss, Bev Abma & Kathlyn Chan The I AM ART projects are intentionally planned to help participants discover more about themselves and explore the world around them while developing creative and mental skills, strengthen their faith and develop personal identity. While […]
Serving My Little Heroes! I enjoyed the Casa Bernabe Camp as much as my first camp, I like to meet new people because you never know how amazing people are in this world. I learned so many things from this camp. An important thing I have learned is how important it is to help others. […]
SPOILER WARNING Greetings from my first week back in Guatemala! This is my fifth visit to the country within the past four years and every time I come back, I am always surprised by the same things upon my arrival. Soon, I will get used to this way of living again, but first I wanted […]
Your Problem is Boredom Athentikos team member Kati Korosuo asks herself some of the hard questions that traveling, volunteering, and mission work can bring up, and identifies Athentikos’ efforts to exist as an ethical organization in this sector. Kati is a dancer, choreographer, and artistic director from Finland, Europe. I ended up going to Guatemala […]
Why You Should Join an I Am Art Camp Former Athentikos intern Courtney Noya reflects on her unexpected participation with I Am Art, and how anyone can join despite doubt and inhibitions. When I first began working with Athentikos in 2016, I didn’t quite understand what kind of path I was starting to journey down. […]
This post was written by Guatemalan team member Diego Armando, a Spanish teacher from San Pedro La Laguna. Diego served as a translator and photographer for the camp Athentikos’ is an amazing mission because it’s a way to know how much can I do for other people. My experience with Athentikos at the jungle school […]
This post was written by Athentikos Alumni Jen Galvin. She has participated in several I Am Art camps, both in Virginia and Guatemala, and returned this December to serve with Athentikos at The Jungle School. The Jungle School and the children that go there have really left me feeling like I need to do more, […]
This Blog was written by Danny Rodas, a Guatemalan translator who has participated in two I Am Art camps. “Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.” – Proverbs 22:6 Jesus told his disciples that they are the light of the […]
This blog was written by Mafer Farnes, a Guatemalan translator who helped with the Casa Bernabae I Am Art camp in October of 2018. I give thanks to God because despite the difficulties that happened to me during the year, God has blessed me with experiences like this, and I can say that my year […]
This post was written by team member Bethany Cok who currently resides in Guatemala I leaned against the concrete wall of the high-ceilinged room we’d decorated to the rafters with balloons, streamers, and chalk art, the explosion of color matching the explosion of chaos that descended on the room every afternoon at 1:50. I watched […]