2010-Present
We have been missionaries in Chiquimula, Guatemala for eight years now. We moved to Guatemala in 2009 with our two year old son, Levi, and four month old daughter, Mary Kathleen. We also have another son, Uriah Nathan, who was born in 2011 in Chiquimula. We all work and serve the Lord together, and in 2010, God led us to name the ministry Eyes Wide Open Ministries and encouraged us to keep our eyes open to what He is always doing.
Our main focus is to have rural pastors, leaders, both men and women, and youth from all over Guatemala come to our house and stay for three days to receive Biblical leadership training. We work together with trained pastors from the United States and from Guatemala to provide these pastors, leaders, and youth with education classes and material to help them train others in their congregations.
We also visit the National hospital here in Chiquimula to pray for the admitted infants and children. We give out toys, clothes, toiletry items, and Biblical literature to the children and to their parents.
We also minister in five public schools to teach and play with first to ninth graders. We use Bible stories to teach the students moral values and about the love of God. We host missionary teams from the United States. The teams go with us into the villages in the mountains to visit families at their houses and hand out food and clothes and to pray with them. Our desire is to work with the local pastors to help them minister to their communities. The teams also visit the hospital and schools, and the children love to interact with the groups. When possible, the teams help us with construction projects, including the Eyes Wide Open’s mission center being built in El Morral, Guatemala.
