These are the impressive testimonies of the group from Alaska, United States, which visited the CA4 field from January 17th to 24th 2014. This is the first missions group, in the history of Guatemala, which participated in traveling on motorcycles to the missionary areas, where these would be donated to the Missional Zone planters of the North Petén District and East Gaza District, and Alta Verapaz District in Guatemala.  This drew the attention of people because it was something they have never seen before. The group ministered through high-impact activities in the communities such as Maximum Mission and the presentation of the Jesus film. 175 people received Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.

Testimony in the village / Nueva Esperanza community

In this village, we held a Maximum Mission outreach that consisted in helping to paint a school. The group had the opportunity to paint the       two rooms that make up this school. Simultaneously, we held a piñata event for the children. All of these activities caused a great evangelistic impact, for the glory of God. It was even more impacting when at the end of the painting and piñata activity we projected the Jesus Film. This attracted the whole village. They stood expectantly as the film developed. We realize that the faces of the people were astonished at the part of the movie when Jesus was crucified. It was a touching scene. Then we made the call to receive Jesus in their hearts. Immediately, the children passed to the front and adults also raised their hands; including men, women and young people. The response of the people was something admirable. The Alaska Group witnessed this event and were filled with joy to know how much need of Jesus there is in these missional zones. More than 75 of the people received Jesus and were saved that night, at the Nueva Esperanza community of Santa Elena Petén. A new mission was opened, in this community, for the glory God.

Community testimony/ Chimeja village

In the village of Chimaja (Quekchi Name), we also held a Maximum Mission with church planters from the East Gaza District of Alta Verapaz. We repaired and painted a community house that function as a meeting place for the villagers. We also held a workshop on dental cleaning education, where the whole Alaskan group participated teaching the children how they should brush their teeth. At night, we presented the Jesus Film. The place was completely full of people. It was a surprising event! The group made a comment in relation to this time, they remembered the passage where Jesus was teaching in a house and the crowd was great. So many people were in this place that it was very difficult to move. We had over three hundred people! We held the event in the community house that we had just repaired and painted because it was raining at the time of the presentation. This time, we made the call to receive Jesus and had more than 100 converts; just like in Nueva Esperanza, a new mission was opened.

Summary

We thank God for this project. An estimated 175 people received Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and were saved through the tools of the Jesus Film and Maximum Mission in these districts. This is just an example of the great things God is doing in the CA-4 Field in the Mesoamerica Region. In addition to all this, the Alaska Group had the privilege of witnessing the organization of a new church in what will soon be a new district in the Sayaxche Zone, North Petén District. This is the result of our CA-4 Field Missional Zone Planters, Glory to God! In this experience the Alaska group saw two important events: The birth of two new missions that in the future will be two Nazarene Churches, and the organization of a church type mission that began as a preaching point and is now a Nazarene Church. It will join the Petén District.

Finally, we visited the Coban Bible Institute (IBN) where we delivered the motorcycles to the Missional Zone Planters (MZP). This was a great blessing, something to be remembered. We held a consecration ceremony for the motorcycles and the Jesus Film equipment brought by the Alaska group. Also, we had the presence of our Evangelism Regional Coordinator, Dr. Bernie Slingerland, who expressed satisfaction and joy of being able to reach this important moment in a time of thanksgiving and unity with the MZP, the Alaska group, and part of the CA-4 evangelism team.

For: Rev. Roger Lemus,  Evangelism CA-4 Field team