Village Church Construction for Plan de Agua Fria!

Funds Needed: $6,700 of the $25,000 has been raised! We praying for the remaining $18,300 needed to complete this church!
Project Info: Once the body of believers outgrows the temporary structure for a meeting place we begin praying for God to provide for a permanent block church! It signifies the value they hold in God’s eye’s that He would provide a lasting building through the body of Christ!

Village Church Construction for Cerro Chiquito!

Fully Funded!!! $25,000
Project Info: Our pastors have been hiking to this village for over a year now! The believers there in this village have outgrown their little structure and we are eager to build them a permanent meeting place with the funds God has provided!!!

“Food For Thought” – Educational Feeding Program

Funds Needed: $1,325.00 per month
Project Info: The Food for Thought feeding program encourages families to send their children to school, rather than putting them to work at an early age. Usually, it is necessary for the families to work their children from a young age in order to survive, but since the Food for Though program was started the villages families now have a great alternative, that both puts food on the table, and ensures the education of their children.

The program allows families to send their children to primary school, and in exchange the the families receive monthly packages of rice, sugar, beans and incaparina (a highly nutritional drink), which is an important supplement to the conventional diet for the entire family.

In order to gain employment in the cities of Guatemala you need at least a high school education. Our village schools provide up to 6th grade. We have found that there is no lack of interest or ambition for higher education. We have sponsored many students over the past 10 years. These sponsorships have been a complete success. 6 students from Matasano and Pinalito have graduated. Four as teachers, one as an accountant and one police officer.  We cover expenses for food, school uniforms, shoes, school supplies, books, and transportation.

Widows Feeding Program

Funds Needed: $966.00 per month
Project Info: There are many widows in the mountain villages we serve in. They have no source of income and no family to help provide shelter and food for them. The majority of their daily time is spent gathering firewood for their small huts. We have the privilege to help give these widows food supplies for themselves and their children if they have any. It is such a blessing and we ask that you would consider partnering with us to feed them!

Village Church Support

Funds Needed: $200 each month per village church. This supports the pastor and his family and enables them for the full-time work of ministering in their villages.
Project Info: As the fellowship of believers has organically grown through the years, God has raised up leaders and teachers among us! We have a need to support two pastors and their families so that they may dedicate their lives to the encouragement of the saints and building strong bonds of faithfulness within the local body of believers. The cost to support an entire family is only $200.00 per month.

Pilas

Funds Needed: $250 per pila
Project Info: Pilas are water holding tanks that enable the villagers to hold water to do their wash and also to bathe.  Each pila will provide water to one home.

Smoke-free Stoves for Families 

Funds Needed: $250 per stove materials
Project Info: It is so essential to the entire families health, especially for the mother and babies, to have a clean cooking area. The science behind these stoves allows for less wood than an open fire, and it also cuts the amount of wood they need to haul in order to be able to cook.

We completed a stove project many years ago, but would like to initiate it again for this summer. There are many new villages and new families who have never had the opportunity of being selected for this a stove project.

Homes for Huts

Funds Needed: $2,000 pr/ home
Project Info: Many villagers live in small huts built out of adobe and sticks. These huts provide little protection against the elements and poor ventilation from the open fire pits. Your $2000 donation will provide a family with a new safe home, built out of cement block, with a poured cement floor, and a tin roof.

Rio Dulce Mission Base

Funds Needed: $2,000 per month
Project Info: This needed amount of funding is to cover all of our overhead expenses that we must pay for keeping the mission base up and running.

Zacapa Dormitory

Funds Needed: $2,000 per month
Project Info: This needed amount of funding is to cover all of our overhead expenses that we must pay for keeping the mission base up and running.

House Boat

Funds Needed: $180,000
Project Info: A fifty foot pontoon house boat for use by the mission to serve up the Rio Dulce tributaries. Currently we spend 3-4 hours each day transporting teams back and forth from Rio Dulce to the villages we serve, at a great cost, and loss of time.  This boat will provide a mobile base from which to launch teams of medical and dental professionals, construction and evangelism teams that wish to minister to the remote and isolated villages on the river tributaries.  The boat will allow us to bring teams up the rivers for extended periods of time, and give us access to villages where no missionaries ever have gone before.