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, [...]

Celebrating Independencia

After allowing me to be a part of their Nina de la Paz celebration a couple weeks ago, the director of the Nueva Esperanza school extended a further invitation to me to accompany them for another segment of their Independence Day celebration.  On September 14th, the day before Guatemala´s Independence day, he explained to me, [...]

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!  [...]

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 [...]

Chutinamit Receives New Beds

The families that make up the community of Chutinamit are literally  sleeping a little easier these days.  Recently, Mission Guatemala with the help of a team from  Roswell United Methodist Church delivered new beds and mattresses to the displaced community. The people of Chutinamit were forced from their homes in June of 2010 after Hurricane [...]

Chutinamit Receives New Water Filters

Each family in the the displaced community of Chutinamit is now drinking clean water through brand new water filters! Thanks to the children in the Awanas program of First United Methodist Church of Alabaster, Alabama, Mission Guatemala was able to distribute the water filters to each family.  The water filters provide an instant source of [...]

Mother’s Day in Guatemala

Just as it is in the United States, Mother’s Day is a very special day in Guatemala. Each year on May 10, schools all across Guatemala have special programs and celebrations to honor mother’s. This year, Mission Guatemala helped our friends at the Nueva Esperanza school and Chutinamit school celebrate this special day with a [...]

A Different Spring Break!

Spring break for the Leonhardt family usually consists of a trip to Florida for some relaxation at the beach and thrills at Disney World.  But this year, an opportunity came along for our family to spend our vacation doing something a little less self-indulging.  My husband, Keith, our sons, Reed and Ian, and I joined Blue Grass United [...]

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