St. Luke's first 2014 construction mission trip to Guatemala is from March 21 to March 30, 2014. 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, March, 2012 and March, 2013. 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, to add a cinder block kitchen to a school in Caserio Rosario (on the outskirts of Lemoa), and to conduct a band camp at the John Wesley School in Santa Cruz del Quiché. We will also be spending time with children in Bible school programs and at the John Wesley School. Look here for the itinerary. See puravida.org for more details about Lemoa.

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Our mission team, and Sisters Connie, Norie and Helen