2010-Present
Eyes Wide Open Ministries began in 2010 with Brandi, Daniel, their two year old son Levi, and their four month old daughter Mary Kathleen. In 2011, they were blessed with another son named Uriah. Eyes Wide Open is focused on training and equipping leaders and pastors to lead their communities and churches in the rural, mountainous regions of Chiquimula and the surrounding areas. For three days at a time, the McIntyres would host pastors or women or youth in their home where they would feed and house them and also partner with trained pastors from the states and Guatemala in order to bring sound teaching principles as well as material to enable them to lead in the fullest capacity. They were also given the opportunity to go into the national hospital here in Chiquimula where they could pray for the patients and also hand out hygiene essentials and toys to the women, men, and children as well as biblical literature for them to read. Along with these ministry opportunities, they were also given the chance to go into many of the local schools to share lessons with biblical principles and play with the students. The ministry was able to buy some land in the same village where they were able to host the first seminar and have been blessed to build a fully functioning learning facility and a home for the McIntyres as well. All of these ministries continue to prosper and have each grown in their own capacity. The ministry is hosting groups from the states almost every week through the summer as well as a few in the fall and the spring and continues to grow! These groups help in many of the areas listed above such as the hospital and schools as well as visiting families in the villages and delivering food bags, installing stoves, and occasionally helping out with various construction projects. Eyes Wide Open continues to grow and is constantly given new opportunities to minister and they look forward to the opportunities to come!
