Mario’s Story

For the first time after almost 8 years of pain and a gradual loss of mobility, Mario Yos is finally seeing a glimmer of hope for some relief.  As a young man of only 18, Mario first began noticing pain and swelling in the joints of his fingers, followed gradually by pain and gradual loss [...]

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 [...]

240 Children Receive Gifts for Christmas

On Monday morning in Nueva Esperanza, squeals of excitement erupted from the assembled children of the community as the clown, Payaso Clavito, entered the room, and the laughter and excitement didn’t stop throughout that day and the next, as Mission Guatemala celebrated Christmas with the children of Nueva Esperanza, Chutinamit, and Pacaman, as well as [...]

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 [...]

Magdalena Receives a New House

We first found out about Magdalena a few months back, as Alejandra, our community development and social worker, was searching out families or individuals who did not have stoves and who were cooking over open fires in their homes, as these individuals were eligible to receive one of the Ecocomal stoves that had been donated [...]

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 [...]

New feeding center opens at Pacaman

Kites rose above the caserio of Pacaman as we descended the narrow, twisting road that wound across the face of the hillside and down into the village.  Soon after we arrived, however, the kites began to be pulled down and put away, and children of the community began to converge on the school. Though November [...]

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