As someone who lives in Latin America and has traveled to Guatemala, I greatly admired the humanitarian work that Leslie Baer Dinkel and her teams were involved in. Guatemala is a beautiful country with kind and selfless people who at that time, greatly needed and deserved help with their education, medical and housing. The author felt a calling to assist the Guatemalan people in those areas and she organized teams to travel there and do just that.

The writing was a bit slow for me at times, almost as if taken straight from her journals, however, I did find her various accounts of the many challenges they encountered interesting and dramatic. All in all, Hope Dancing is a good read that reminds readers of the humanitarian work that is already being done but is still needed around the world.