Guatemala Mission Team 2009

(By Maria Kovaleski)

We are therefore Christ's ambassadors … 2 Corinthians 5:20 (NIV)

Missionaries from US and Guatemala

Love your neighbor as yourself….. Matthew 22:39 (NIV)

Boys waiting for us impatiently

He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Mark 16:15 (NIV)

Church congregation has multiplied since 2007
From 38 families to 147 families
We had people outside….

Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.“ Matthew 19:14 (NIV)

Children waiting for their Sunday School class

Medical day

"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these  brothers of mine, you did for me.‘  Mathew 25:40 (NIV)

Baby with chicken pox and Dr Rivera

Medical day

Everyone gets a vitamin shot by John RN

Using all resources available

Part of the Medical Team Dr Soerries,  Dr Rivera and Dr Pidherney and Sylvia resting and getting ready to start again

Dr Vallejo (Cynthia’s brother) Cynthia, Betty and Vivian

Health Report

2007 VS 2009

2007 Josue in the middle, heart condition due to malnutrition  - 2009 Josue healthy

Orphans and widow
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world
James 1:27 (NIV)

Orphans and widow get food, clothing and shoes

Day in Purulha
Queqchi Mayan families
“Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me”  John 17:25

Left: Church day Queqchi tribe - Right: Bibles that they had prayed for…

Elizabeth (11 yrs old), a part of the US team, and new friends

Ken and Silvia getting the right fit for a pair of shoes for a baby girl

Team work:

Maria called families name; Cynthia, Marsha passed bags of food, Silvia, Merry, and Marisol  and Elizabeth handed food to families

Elizabeth passing out candies and toys

Day at a Guatemalan Christian school for impoverished single mothers children

(Kent, Guatemalan teacher, Marisol singing, Silvia playing guitar, Merry, John, Marsha and Maria)

Marisol was adopted from Guatemala thru AHH in 2007.

She is 3 yrs old and also was a BIG part of this mission trip her parents are Merry and John.

“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them” Psalm 139:13-16

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions, want to join us or would like to help.

You also can send us your donations or donate on line.

Blessings,

Maria Kovaleski