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A Short Video....
Three out of every five years Eastern Guatemala is in drought. This worsens the already poverty stricken area where the Chorti Indians live. An average meal often times consists of 2 tortillas and salt. The Lord has moved on our hearts as well as our partners to begin opening feeding centers so that the children will not die or go hungry.

A Typical bowl of Food

Some Actual Pictures of the children

Here is a picture on one little girl who has lost most of her hair due to malnutrition.

We also teach the children how to have a real relationship with Jesus

Bloated bellies and swollen cheeks, the results of parasites and malnutrition

A couple of Success Pictures

before after
Before & After

El Jute Feeding Center

El Jute is my oldest feeding center, it opened in 2003. It is in a village that lies just a few minutes walk from the Honduran border. It is located on a well known contraband road. This road is used to traffic illegal drugs, coffee, and bananas.

The people from this village earn their living strictly from agriculture. The main crop is coffee, with corn running a close second. Coffee is grown for exportation. While working the fields picking coffee beans the local workers earn $2 for picking a 100 lb. bag. As you can well imagine they are not able to pick that much in a given day. The majority of the fields are on the side of the mountain.

A high percentage of the people live in bamboo or bajareque (mud covered bamboo) huts. Normally with one main room that everyone sleeps in and an outside kitchen. If they are lucky they have an outhouse. This entire village has no running water and just received access to electricity.

We have 50 children in this center. Since it has been in operation for 7 years we have watched many children grow up and cycle through the program. It is such a joy to see them healthy and serving God as a result of the feeding center!

Nueva Esperanza Feeding Center

In 2009 the Lord moved in a very special way and a very special individual donated the money to open and feed this center with 50 children for a year! In that year we built a kitchen and an eating area. There is no electricity there so use a propane refrigerator.

Naranjo Feeding Center

Naranjo Feeding center opened in 2006. It was birthed out of a long time desire to enter this village with a feeding center. We first went to Naranjo in 2002 with a medical team in the height of the 2002 drought. It was devastated with illness and hunger. Our hearts were forever impacted by the needs that we saw there, tattered clothing, swollen bellies and crying hungry children. That is really one of the first things that the Lord used to propel us into the feeding center ministry. Since that time we have always had a desire to go back to where it all began. Now the Lord has opened the door for us to work with a church that we were also able to build in that village. The 2 ministries have meshed perfectly to combine the outreach to the children and the ministry of the church. Truly, the feeding centers are an evangelistic tool in the hand of the churches. In the first year alone we saw 40-50 salvations, and we continue to see so many give their hearts to the Lord as the children are learning about the God that loves them so much that he sends them food! Please lift up Sister Syria as she is in charge of this new ministry.

La Prensa Feeding Center

Praise the Lord for people with a heart to help. In the fall of 2006 once again our partners took on the challenge of another Feeding Center. With your help we were able to build the feeding center in La Prensa, Olopa in October. It is a huge blessing to the community. We started out with an estimation of accepting 50 children into the program, but it is so hard to say no to hungry children.

At last count there are 97! We have one little girl, whom we started giving formula before we even opened the center because she was severly mal-nourished. Her little tummy bloated with parasites, and her thin arms...but thanks to you and the feeding center, today she is a thriving healthy little girl! In Jesus name we will make a difference in her little life and many others.

We now have running water at the feeding center! So we do not have to haul water 3 times a week just to wash dishes and cook and clean. That is fabulous!

Pacren Feeding Center

Pacren Feeding center is in the heart of the Chorti Maya culture. Many of the people do not speak Spanish....they speak Chorti.

This feeding center opened in Spring of 2008. It has 100 children, many are in serious condition physically due to malnutrition.

Tizamarte Feeding Center

Soon after Pacren opened we were busy with another feeding center! In July 2008 we were so pleased to open a new feeding center in the village of Tizamarte! This is our sixth feeding center. Opening day was filled with puppets and bible stories. We took bios on all of the children. We started with 50 children even though the pastor wanted to take 87! Our home church, Generations Church sponsored 50 children for the first 2 years for this feeding center. But we quickly grew to 87, and then 100. We are currently in need of sponsors for this center.

February 2009 we dawned our brand new kitchen and were able to move out of the provisional adobe room that we were using. Thanks to so many who care we are now looking to take even more children in this center.

We know that the children will get hungry day after day and that need will never end, but we also know that as we fill their stomachs with food we are also filling their hearts with the word of God-and that never goes away! So, please lift up Pastor Furgensio as he and the ladies of the church take on this ministry outreach to the children of Tizamarte. We declare that they will all serve the Lord!

You can make a difference in a childs life, whether they eat and live, or suffer needlessly, won't you consider becoming a partner today?