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Even in the United States, we’re accustomed to constantly dealing with funding issues in the public school systems, as it seems that every year budget constraints force restrictions in available classes or activities.  And while these issues in the US education system are a definite cause for

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.