International Bathroom, Reaching Culture and Guatemala
Doing Life Together · Jason Shirley
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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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