Guatemala Mission Trip

Our next trip is June 17-24, 2023 and the cost is $1,500. (The trip cost would include flight, transportation from Guatemala City to San Andres and back, cost for materials for our projects, rooms, and meals. The registration form is below!

Mission Statement:

Catholic Social Teaching reminds us that we are one human family and our responsibilities to each other cross national, racial, economic and ideological differences. While we continually strive to ease the pain of poverty in our own community, no one can truly grasp the degree of suffering that exists throughout the world until they experience it themselves.

Church of the Nativity Guatemala Outreach Mission works to foster awareness of the values and needs of the people of San Andres Itzapa, Guatemala. Our goal is to assist in improving the lives of the poor, while both communities grow and benefit from each other on our shared journeys of faith, hope and love.

There have been four trips over the past two years to San Andres with close to 100 people attending. Our projects range from tiny houses to cinderblock stoves, cinderblock pig pens, chicken coops, concrete floors and visiting the home bound and a special needs orphanage.

If you are unable to serve on our mission trips, you can make a donation. Make your check out to: Church of the Nativity and include Guatemala in the Memo Line. Any amount is appreciated but here are a few specific needs:
 

Project and Price
Tiny House $1000
Stove $175
Concrete Floor $150
Big Chicken Coop $275
Bag for the Sick Visit (each bag) $25
Minister $10

Additional Travel Information:

We have received a few questions regarding shots required for the trip. If you are concerned with any health or travel related questions, we recommend you contact your primary physician and/or the CDC website (http://www.cdc.gov) or State.gov website (http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/go.html) for guidance. Remember, Kansas City Catholic parishes have had more than 20 years of safe trips to San Andres, Itzapa, Guatemala. Over 2,000 people have safely traveled there and back with little or no incident.