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2017 Guatemala Medical Mission Trip

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In July 2017, my church, along with churches from Tennessee and Alabama, will partner with One Way Guatemala to travel to Planet Kids in Guatemala, where we will provide free medical care to children and families in and around Guatemala City.

Our team consists of a doctor, dentists, physician's assistants, nurses, medical assistants (that'd be me!) and more. We will provide physical examinations, dental care, prescription medication (including but not limited to antibiotics, diabetes and blood pressure medication, vitamins, etc.), eye glasses, and dental care. We are honored to be able to provide these services completely FREE to the citizens of Guatemala City thanks to the generosity of peope like YOU! 

In addition to medical care, our team will also have an outreach group who will travel to public schools around Guatemala City performing skits, giving out toys, shoes, clothing and hygeine kits, as well as a construction team that will help Planet Kids add to their ministry outreach. 

I was able to attend last year's Guatemala trip, and the impact it left on my life cannot be measured. I went hoping to be able to bless some of the families of Guatemala, but the truth is that they blessed me far more than I could ever have blessed them. The families we worked with live in poverty that we, as Americans, cannot begin to fathom. The majority of their homes are nothing more than tin shelters built around a trash dump. Every single day they struggle to feed their children. For these people, medical care is scarce and unaffordable. Despite these things, they have a joy that touched me deeply. The gratitude they showed after recieving medication for illnesses that would otherwise go untreated was so touching, and I left the country forever changed.

The most important work we did for them, and will do again this year, was not the medical care. It wasn't the construction jobs, nor the trips to the public schools. The truly lasting - and most rewarding - work done is that which is done for their souls. Each child we meet is hugged, prayed for, and loved. We want every single man, woman and child to know that they are a son or daughter of God. We pray for every single person who walks through the doors of our makeshift medical clinic, as well each of the hundreds of children reached in the schools, and we continue to pray for them all long after we return to our homes.

God has granted me a heart for the people of Guatemala, and a passion to continue to help them in any way possible - but I need your help. I can't do it on my own. To get there I need to raise the funds, and I can't do that without you. No donation is too small to have a lasting impact on these precious children of God. I humbly ask that you consider donating. By doing so you are coming alongside me to reach the people of Guatemala City. You are standing with us in the medical clinic as we provide healing to their bodies. You are huddling with us in prayer over these cherished brothers and sisters in Christ. You are singing and dancing with the evangelism team, bringing smiles to the faces of the schoolchildren they encounter. You are securing their places in eternity as they embrace the message of salvation. For that, and for your prayers, I thank you with all my heart.

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Stephanie Culler Cook
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Fuquay-Varina, NC

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