A group of six from Crossroads Bible Church spent five days on a trip to Guatemala. This is the first in a two-part series detailing their mission.
A team from Crossroads Bible Church spent a busy five days at the end of January spreading the word of God throughout a number of small towns in Guatemala.
They worked in conjunction with Servants Hearts Ministries of Synder and alongside a dentist from Plano in groups of two to twenty people.
Day one was spent filling up bags of food for delivery to 20 families throughout several villages, according to Carolyn Stone, who was one of the five on the trip. She said, the bags of food consisted of 10 pounds of corn, black beans, and rice along with five pounds of oatmeal, cooking oil, sugar, onions and pineapples. The bags would feed a family of four up to four weeks and cost $20 U.S.
“What a joy it was to present these bags to needy families and what gratitude was shown for the kindness,” Stone said.
This was the first mission trip for Stone and Cody and Cade Kaufmann and the fourth for trip leader Kinley Mueller.
On day two the group built a house for a family in El Rodeo. Before the 14x17 building was erected, the family had lived in a structure that had a tarp roof with a dirt floor.
A team from Servants Hearts poured a concrete slab and brought the two small windows and door for installation. The walls were covered with 1x12 green pine boards screwed to studs and a tin roof. The kitchen was a tin lean-to built outside with a concrete block stove consisting of a wood fire-box and a metal cook top.
“If this sounds primitive to you, it is luxury for them,” Stone said.
The cost to build a house is $1,600 and the outdoor kitchen was $250 U.S. While the Rockdale team built one house another team of 60 from Florida was there and built eight homes.
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