Mission Guatemala Constructs Sinks for School

Can you imagine a school with 200+ students and only two faucets to serve the entire school? That was the challenge facing the community of Chuti Estancia!  The school was working with a Peace Corps worker trying to teach the children the importance of washing hands and brushing teeth.  However, the school was also faced [...]

120 Families Receive Christmas Food Baskets

With the Mission Guatemala old red Toyota pick-up truck loaded full of colorfully wrapped food baskets, the staff of the mission began distributing Christmas food baskets to 120 families in the communities of Pacaman, Nueva Esperanza and Chutinamit. This was an undertaking that had begun weeks earlier with the purchase of plastic baskets and the [...]

Getting Ready for Christmas

The Mission Guatemala staff has been very busy getting ready for Christmas! Thanks to the generosity of many southern Indiana United Methodist congregations, 100 poor indigenous Mayan families will be receiving food baskets to brighten up their Christmas celebrations.  Shortly before Christmas, the baskets will be given to families in the communities of Nueva Esperanza, [...]

Preschool Students Graduate

There was a wonderful feeling of excitement in the room as it began to fill with children and parents!  The day had finally come!  It was time to celebrate the first graduating class from the Mayan Families/Mission Guatemala preschool.  The graduates were straightening their hats and the teachers were making sure the graduation robes were [...]

Dr. Chumil Joins Mission Guatemala

Mission Guatemala is pleased to welcome Dr. Luis Edwin Chumil to our clinic staff as our main clinic doctor! Dr. Chumil had been working one day a week filling in for our regular clinic doctor.  However, in October, the full time clinic doctor needed to leave his position with us and Dr. Chumil was willing [...]

Stove Project Continues to Change Lives

The story was written by Rusty Allanson, Lead Pastor, The Promise Church, Fishers, IN The two women-the mother and the grandmother-were huddled in the little shack because of the rain. The single room, maybe 20 feet by 12 feet at most, had only two beds, an old curio cabinet, and a glorified campfire in the [...]

Christmas in July

There will be many children in Guatemala with smiling faces this Christmas thanks to many churches in southwest Indiana. During the month of July many churches helped Mission Guatemala by celebrating Christmas!  During this special Christmas in July celebration, the churches collected gently used and new toys for children in Guatemala.  The result was spectacular!  [...]

Families Receive New Stoves!

Many families around San Andrés Semetabaj are now enjoying the thrill of cooking on a stove for the first time in their lives! Thanks to a generous donation from a Mission Guatemala supporter, Mission Guatemala has been able to purchase 100 efficient wood burning stoves.  These stoves have been installed by visiting teams and will [...]

New Home for Preschool Family

With the help of many teams from the United States, Mission Guatemala has been constructing a new home for one of our very poor families with a child in our preschool.  The home is finally nearing completion! The father of the family of five has a debilitating disease that causes him great pain.  The mother [...]

Indiana Conference Team

Mission Guatemala in San Andrés Semetabaj was the destination of 25 Indiana and Nebraska Volunteers in Mission from July 16-25. The team members provided medical care and vision screening by an Optometrist; held VBS for 100 children in Nueva Esperanza; and assisted in building a home for a Mayan family. ¿Why Guatemala?  Rev Tom Heaton, [...]

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