Category: Blog

  • Your Support Is Changing Lives!

    We continue to increase our presence and impact in Guatemala. It is amazing to see how a church of a couple hundred can have a huge impact in a village in a third world country in the middle of Central America. Your support has made huge difference already in Guatemala. We have been able to…

  • Sponsorship Program FAQs

    Sponsorship Program Frequently Asked Questions Sponsoring a child or family through Indy Metro Church’s Love Guatemala ministry is an excellent way to perform an act of justice and make a difference in a someone’s life by rescuing them from a life of poverty and despair. Your sponsorship will ensure that children and families in Guatemala…

  • Announcing: New Sponsorship Ministry

    Another way we are going to continue to increase our involvement and love Guatemala better is through a new ministry we will be starting soon. This is a sponsorship ministry in which for just $30 per month you can sponsor a child in the art school or a lady in the cooking school. This sponsorship…

  • Upcoming Trips

    One of the ways we invest in our work in Guatemala is through regular trips there. The trips my contain various things such as building chicken coups, working in the art and cooking schools, building homes, or painting, but most importantly investing in the lives of the people there by building relationships with them. Our…

  • The Hope of Jesus

    One of the toughest parts of being in Guatemala is the emotions you experience through seeing the extreme poverty, the neglect, and sometimes the abuse.  This is especially difficult when it is the kids that are experiencing this neglect and abuse.  This precious boy to the left is the younger brother of one of the girls…

  • Want to Go to Guatemala?

      One of the ways we love Guatemala is through regular trips there throughout the year.  We took our first trip to Guatemala almost three years ago and have been going at least 2 times per year for the last 3 years. This year we decided it would be best to take multiple trips there. Why?…

  • Sustainable Stoves Project

    One of the accepted health risks for Guatemalans is open flame cooking inside their homes. The open flames fill the homes with smoke and cause major pulmonary health issues for children. We're researching a simple, inexpensive stove which will prevent major health risks to these families, and 1k Per Day Formula: $250 Payouts we want…

  • Big Announcement!!

    We have been praying for over a year now about having someone move to Guatemala and be there full time.  We have by God’s grace been able to do so much and have had such a huge impact in Magdalena over the past couple of years and we know that having a family there full…

  • ~Back home in Indiana~

    Hey all!  I just wanted to let you all know that I'm back home safe in Indiana….however, it was difficult to leave my new friends and family back in Magdalena. It seemed that when I began to really get the contentment piece, that is when my trip ended. Although I was there for 5 weeks,…

  • Magdalena-Week 3-4

    Today is Tuesday….in one week from today, Kristen and Allen will be joining me here in Guatemala 🙂  And in exactly a week and half from today (next Friday), the three of us will be heading back to the states! Hard to believe I have been here for almost 4 weeks now. This past week,…