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Mission - Maya Quiche Presbyteries Partnership

Alianza Presbiterios Misión - Maya Quiché
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Get Involved!
How to donate money or needed items, join a mission trip to Guatemala, or meet with CESSMAQ visitors to Texas.
  • Alternative gifts - for Christmas, weddings, memorials... Your tax-deductible donation can sponsor an elementary school teacher, provide Quiche-language Bibles, or help a farm family improve their production.
  • Shop online for Guatemalan crafts to support CESSMAQ, or make a donation in honor or memory of a loved one.
  • Books and videos about Guatemala and the church. Reading lists compiled by partnership participants and Institute of Latin American Studies faculty.
  • Learn online about Guatemala and the church
  • Why travel to Guatemala? Former Victoria resident The Rev. Kathy Anderson describes "significant moments of worship, reflection, work, insight, study and dialogue".

People and Experiences
Activities, reflections, and photographs
Projects
In agriculture, socio-productive infrastructure, children and youth, organizational development and leadership, theological formation, health, and education.
  • CESSMAQ is leading the Hurricane Stan Relief Effort for 33 of our partner churches and communities in Guatemala.
  • 2005 Operating Plan
  • Water purification inexpensively provides clean water for drinking and washing
  • 2004 Operating Plan
  • 2003 Operating Plan
  • July 2002 update
  • Basic reference library for newly ordained Maya Quiche pastors, provided by the Committee on Ministry of Maya Quiche Presbytery
  • Coffee replanting with new variety that reaches maturity faster and has a greater yield. Note: Unfortunately, world coffee prices are at a 100-year low. CESSMAQ is no longer supporting the effort to add more coffee plants or coffee processing plants to their program.
  • Pig raising through microloans to women from a CESSMAQ-community bank
    Mission Presbytery supports the livestock project through pennies for piggies
  • "Seeds of Hope", CESSMAQ's five-year plan, details these and other projects.

Behind the Scenes
Links to other PC(USA) Guatemala partnerships, and hosting and maintenance of this website
  • Partnership agreement between Mission Presbytery, PC(USA), and Maya Quiche Presbytery, National Presbyterian Church of Guatemala
  • "Seeds of Hope", CESSMAQ's five-year plan, includes background information on Guatemala's history and formation of CESSMAQ, geographic area covered, goals for each project, commitment to community-based methodology, and organizational structure.
  • Partnership team members
  • Information on management of funds and donations

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El comité de compañerismo con Guatemala solicita sus plegarias, su apoyo y su colaboración para esta obra, para sus proyectos y para el pueblo maya de Guatemala. Si su congregación o grupo está interesado en uno de nuestros "minuto para la misión" o en uno de nuestros videos (20 min.), comuniquese con el comité de compañerismo.

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