Build a Brighter Future

for children in Guatemala right now, and for years to come!

Until the end of 2023, every dollar you give (up to $100,000) will be matched!

This December, you can double your impact while building a brighter future for children in Guatemala right now and for years to come!

Double Your Impact

Provide educational programs in Guatemala – along with the capacity to expand into a new community!

Impact Sites

See where the Vida schools are – including the Impact land for Vida Mestela

Impact Stories

What does building a brighter future look like? These stories will help you learn more

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Build a brighter future for kids in Guatemala – right now and for years to come!

Double Your Impact


In Guatemala, distance, family responsibilities, and lack of opportunities can all come between a child and their education. Your donation to Build a Brighter Future helps bridge that gap. Right now your gift provides educational programs – and so much more – for children in Guatemala!

And right now your impact is doubled! Until the end of the year, when you give $1 to build a brighter future for kids in our schools, your donation will be matched by $1 to build a brand new school Vida school in the community of Mestela!

Impact Ministries has purchased land in this Q’eqchí community which is a one-and-a-half hour walk over the mountains from the closest Vida school. There are hundreds of children who need the opportunity to learn and who need to discover how much God loves them – and the community is inviting us in. We anticipate starting construction of Vida Mestela early next year, and hope to welcome students as early as January 2025.

Your gift to Build a Brighter Future makes sure that the current Vida school programs are well-supported, so that we have the capacity to expand – and the match goes directly towards building the new school.

Will you build a brighter future for kids in Guatemala – right now and for years to come?

Impact Sites

Impact Stories

There’s So Much Going On in Guatemala!

School is back in session in Guatemala, and the kids are settling into their school routines. The Vida School theme this year is “Be An Example” (based on 1 Tim 4:12) and our students are learning how to set an example “in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.”…

Happy New Year from Guatemala!

What an amazing year it’s been for Impact Ministries! In 2023 we saw: a new junior high open at Agua de Vida Chijulhá team numbers return to near-normal levels, with 30 short-term missions teams coming to Guatemala 16 individuals baptized in Vida churches over 1800 students attending Vida schools over…

Did You Know You’re Impacting Generations?

When you give to build a brighter future in Guatemala, you are impacting generations. So often, our teachers themselves have been students in our schools, and the gifts you gave years ago are now building into the brighter future of the next generation. Build a Brighter Future Like through Teacher…

Wishing you a Wonder-Filled Christmas

Do you have a child-like excitement for Christmas? Christmas is just made for wonder, isn’t it? The presents under the Christmas tree, the Christmas goodies, the carols, the sparkling lights: https://youtu.be/LZ6UVqIgE9c The Christmas story, too, is made for wonder. Angels, a bright star, a baby in a manger. A Christmas…

Are You Ready to be Part of the Launch of Vida Mestela?

By now you’ve probably heard that there’s a brand new Vida School coming! Are you ready to be part of the launch of Vida Mestela – a new school in an unreached community?!? This Christmas, every dollar you give to build a brighter future for kids in our schools will…

Will You Build into Aroldo’s Future this Christmas?

Did you receive Les & Rita’s Christmas letter in your mailbox already? Building a brighter future is never a quick process, but I’m so excited that we can see glimpses of Aroldo’s brighter future already. Will you build into Aroldo’s brighter future this Christmas? And, by doing so, will you…

Aroldo in front of his home

So Much to Celebrate!

Guess what?!? The sale just went through for the land where the NEXT Vida School will be built!!! After much prayer and consultation, Impact Ministries has acquired a piece of land in Mestela, a community about an hour and a half walk over the mountains from Vida Chamché. This is the village…

land for Vida Mestela

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Build a Brighter Future

Will you help build a brighter future for children in Guatemala – right now and for years to come?

Until the end of the year, every dollar you give to build a brighter future for kids in our Vida schools (up to $100,000!) will be matched to build a brand new school in a new community!

Give the Gift of a Brighter Future

This Christmas, put the gift of a brighter future under a loved one’s Christmas tree!

A printable card that you download at the end of the donation process can be used to share your gift.

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