St. Luke's first 2013 construction mission trip to Guatemala is from March 16 to March 24, 2013. The work will be centered in Lemoa in the department of Quiché near the highland center of Chichicastenango. Our previous construction mission trips were in March, 2005, March, 2006, March, 2007, March, 2008, March, 2009, March, 2010, March, 2011 and March, 2012. Most of the population there is indigenous Mayan. Lemoa was especially hard-hit by massacres and destruction of villages during the years of "La Violencia", guerrilla rebellion and army repression which ended just recently in 1996. We will be working with local people to build a home for a needy family and to add cinder block classrooms to a school in San Jose Pacho (on the outskirts of Lemoa) . Photos of the work are available here. We will also be spending time with children in Bible school programs and at the John Wesley School in nearby Santa Cruz del Quiché. Look here for the itinerary. See puravida.org for more details about Lemoa.

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