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🎙️ NEW EPISODE | Doing Life Together Podcast

“30 Years in Guatemala: The Real (Messy, Beautiful) Life of Long-Term Missionaries”

with John & Tracy Bachelor

We sat down in a Guatemala City hotel room with John & Tracy Bachelor — missionaries here since July 10, 1996 (almost 30 years!).

This isn’t a polished highlight reel. It’s raw, funny, tear-jerking truth about:

- Raising kids (and now a granddaughter!) on the mission field

- Why God keeps us uncomfortable on purpose

- The day God told John, “All of this wasn’t about YOU — it was about your kids”

- How Guatemala changed them way more than they changed Guatemala

- Going deep instead of wide in ministry

- Why ministry is messy, smells like sheep, and still smells like hope

- Seeing people the way Jesus does… while they still “smell like pigs”

- Building trust that opens doors with mayors, engineers, prisoners, and market ladies

If you’ve ever wondered what authentic, long-term, fruit-bearing mission life actually looks like after three decades — this is it.

John & Tracy are the real deal: fully immersed, fully Guatemalan at heart, and still saying yes to Jesus every single day.

✈️ Filmed on location in Guatemala City

⏰ Officially our longest episode ever — and worth every minute

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