Ivanrest Impact Ministries – Guatemala

Here we are at 24 hours before departure.  On Tuesday,  June 17 we will be leaving Ivanrest church via bus to Detroit and after a full day of traveling we should arrive at the remote coastal village, where we will be staying for the first three days, sometime after midnight.

This is the 11^th team that Ivanrest has sent  to Guatemala to build not only earthly homes and care for physical needs but also to build eternal homes and care for spiritual souls.  This is our calling and our mission.

From June 18-20 we will be living in a remote coastal village where many people do not have homes or very poor ones at that.  A year ago mud slides took many of the corn stalk homes that where there.  We will be building five 10×12 homes [The size of many of our sheds] that will become homes to 5 precious families that we will surely fall in love with.  This will be a new experience as we will be living right there with the people while we build.  On Friday we will be having a dedication for these homes where the families will be given an invitation to make their heart Christ’s home.

Friday Night we will be packing up and moving to the second place we will be staying in Chimultinango.  There we will be preparing to travel on Saturday and on Sunday to hard to reach mountain villages where few foreigners have ever been.  While at these villages we will be setting up medical clinics and providing much needed medicine.  We will also be showing the Jesus Film and presenting them with the message of the one who can save both the Body and the Soul. 

On Monday we will start our day at the new base in the mountains and have our personal devotions in the quiet and beautiful Guatemala hills.  We will then have a chance to visit a village that many of the team previously worked at and conclude with some time in Antigua at the local market.

Throughout the week we will be taking time to not only open others to God’s word but we will be opening God’s word to ourselves.  Our focus this week is on becoming “Sold Out” for God. 

We invite you to join us on this journey as we place our hands and feet in God’s hands and give him our all.   We not only covet your prayers but we need them.  Please remember us through out the week and hold us up as we face the challenges and joys that lay ahead. 

We hope to have internet available in the remote village and update with pictures, prayer needs and stories each evening.  This may be a challenge, so please be patient if we cannot update as quickly as we would like.

Welcome along to our adventure!!!  Thanks for being our support!!!

Kevin Van Wyhe