We learned about Ben Tino’s music ministry and his wife Scarlett’s deaconess work in Zacapa, Guatemala, in person on Sunday, September 1.
Email Ben to be added to his e-newsletter: [email protected].
The link to contribute to their work is GlobalLutheranOutreach.com/blog/btino. In addition, checks payable to Global Lutheran Outreach can be mailed to Global Lutheran Outreach, 6709 Ficus Drive, Miramar, FL 33023. Contributions toward their family vehicle can also be sent to this address.
Donations of musical instruments such as trumpets, guitars, saxophones, and flutes are welcome. We’ll store them at Shadow of the Cross and deliver them to Ben the next time he returns to the States.
Meet Benjamin and Scarlett Tino
Birthdays
Ben: March 29th.
Scarlett: October 20th.
Jaakko René: born on November 15th 2023.
Starting in January 2025, we began serving as missionaries at the Lutheran church in the city of Puerto Barrios, Scarlett’s home congregation. Upon our return to Guatemala in September, the Lutheran church of Puerto Barrios extended us a call, and after much discussion and prayer we have decided that is where God wants us to be for the next several years. The church music status of Puerto Barrios is about where Zacapa was six years ago: None. They have nothing. Just a few instruments collecting dust in a closet and many CDs they sing along to. My goal is to change that.
Being at a new church I have also begun the process of creating an easy to ready music book for the upcoming musicians. Very similar to the one I did for Zacapa, this one is basically an edited version of that one which I hope to start getting printed by the end of this year. I am also piecing together two other songbooks for both the church in Barrios and Zacapa to use, which are just about ready to print. So when I am not teaching, practicing trumpet, or playing with Jaakko or with my dogs, I am on my computer working on music!