Samaritan Project

 Our Samaritan Project has been a wonderful testimony of how to teach our local churches about the importance of reaching out to those in need in their communities. The culture here is a “hand to mouth” and everyone is looking for the way to just survive. This culture does not, by nature, volunteer their time or talents to reach out to others. We have a donor who provides the materials to provide a tin roof for those who are in need of better housing. His only requirement was that the church people provide free labor and asked me if I thought this would work in Guatemala. I am happy to say that it does. Our churches have learned the joy in giving to others and in working side by side with others in their church to form deeper relationship and great fellowship. So many testimonies have come out of the candidates that have been selected to reach out to. The churches reach out to Christians and non-Christians alike with no bias on their choice of church or other criteria. We have seen people’s reaction to being shown the Christ like love and how it affects them and hope to be able to keep doing this outreach.

Samaritan Project Update for October 2022

We were able to do our normal 2 Samaritan Projects this month.

Samaritan Project Update for the Village of Matazano

Jose Gutierrez Vasquez is 61 years old and has been a widower for several years. He works in the fields, doing agricultural work and earns an average of $40 a month for his support. His house was in very poor condition and the church in Matazano reached out to assist him. His comments “I thank God for the opportunity to have a tin roof on my house, to live for the rest of my days that I am on this earth in a good house. Thank you Sister Nancy for your support and may God bless you.”

Samaritan Project Update for the Village of Dos Quebradas

 Juana Garcia is 63 years old and has been a widow for 10 anos. She still has a 20 year old daughter who lives with her, who is going to school. Juana does washing and ironing of clothes for people, earning about $40 a month, to support them. Her house was in disrepair and the church reached out to change that. Her comments “I give thanks to God first for this huge blessing that I was given. I also want to thank Sister Nancy and the pastor for taking me into account, to help me in this way. Thanks to you, I have a worthy house to live in and I am grateful. May God bless you in a big way!” 

Below is a table that shows how many people have been helped through this Samaritan Project through our Servant Ministries churches partnering and working together to impact people in their communities; showing the love of God in a tangible and practical way!

Note:  The projects that are showing an asterisk (*) depict those projects that were done with funding outside of our normal funding for this outreach.