Every day, children receive meals at partner centers. Through our local partnerships in Guatemala, children receive free medical checkups, many for the first time. When urgent needs arise, whether for food, medicine, or crisis support, relief reaches families quickly because our partners live in the neighborhoods they serve.

Relationships are at the heart of everything we do.

As Bryant Myers writes, “Poverty is the result of relationships that do not work, that are not just, that are not for life, that are not harmonious or enjoyable. Poverty is the absence of shalom in all its meanings.”

By offering their presence, the team in Guatemala enters into stories of deep poverty, suffering, abuse, and marginalization. They offer friendship, love, and shalom.

They visit homes, letting people express their pain and give voice to wounds. They show up in the darkest moments of suffering, sickness, evil, and need. They take food to homes when parents are unable to provide enough. They plead with the gang member contemplating retaliation for his recent gunshot wound. And they celebrate the growing number of faithful people who want to see their city healed and whole.