Wesly & Katie Sanchez 

WESLY & KATIE SANCHEZ

GUATAMALA

Missionaries proclaiming the Gospel of Christ to remote villages in the Quiche region.

OCTOBER 2024 UPDATE

Our work has continued as before, sharing the Gospel and providing Bible education to believers of the villages in the remote, mountainous region of Quiche, Guatemala. Our mission focus is to strengthen and grow the church in our region and also activate the members of the churches to be the church outside its walls. The Bible classes we offer are at little to no cost to the participating students and we have added a half day of discipleship meetings for our younger students. The number of students for this year has increased to 50 and half of those students will be finishing up their studies and graduating at the end of the year! The rest will hopefully continue to the next level for the following year. We also have 20 pastors in our ROAR classes we offer in partnership with NRP. 

Our children's ministry program is going strong with 18 churches participating, 32 teachers, and over 400 children attending! Investing in and training up the next generation has been a great need in our area, and praise God we are seeing so much fruit in these efforts! We hear reports of changed behaviors in the children and also the teachers are growing so much in their understanding and application of God's Word! 

Prayer request:

We are looking forward to taking several of our students on a missions trip to the neighboring country of Honduras this November. This is a great opportunity for them to allow God to stretch them and activate their faith and giftings, so please pray with us that God will use this trip to grow them spiritually and please pray for their safety as well. 

Praise report: Our daughter was born last October 16th and it was a joyful, wonderful birth to a beautiful, healthy little girl, who we named Amayah Abrielle. Thank you for your prayers!

Wesly & Katie Sanchez 

OCTOBER 2023 UPDATE:

Aloha Calvary! First, thank you for your faithful prayers and support! 

We are so grateful for this opportunity to share and we hope this brief update encourages you. Our work is expanding beyond ourselves and even our mission. We have pastors from other missions and churches receiving and signing up for Bible classes with us (made available to us through partnering ministries in Guatemala and the USA). Most of our pastors, as well as leaders and workers have graduated and we are seeing the fruit of their studies in leadership and Bible as they continue pastoring/laboring together. Even more exciting is some of the youth students who have graduated from the Bible classes went on their first international mission trip to Honduras. They were challenged and stretched, used by God and changed in powerful ways. We hope to send more youth on both national and foreign mission trips in the future! 

We are so happy to share we have a children's ministry program now running for almost two years in 18 out of 26 villages. Teachers meet every other month for training, encouragement, and to recieve materials. Over 500 children or more are being reached with the Gospel by local teachers, where before they were nearly forgotten. We hope to see more leaders be called forth by the Lord with passion to see the next generations know and follow Him!

Our prayer requests are first, for our growing family. As we write this, our fifth child is yet to be born in October and we would appreciate continued prayers for health, recovery, and adjustment to being a family of 7. Please pray for more teachers for Sunday school, particularly in the remaining 8 villages where we have church plants. And finally for more youth to be raised up with a hunger to know God and a passion to serve Him and reach the lost. Thank you! 

Wesly & Katie Sanchez