Short-Term Mission Trips
Give your time to lift children and families to HEALTH.
Experience the joy of making a lasting difference in the life of an orphaned child, a hungry family or a poor community who lack the basic necessities of life.
Bring your love to a dark and desperate place
Give joy to a child at God’s Grace Children’s Home (Hogar de Ninos). God’s precious orphaned children find comfort and peace in the loving arms of volunteers like you.
Serve children, families, and communities in Guatemala
through practical, Christ-centered projects
• House Projects: Help build a safe home for a family in need.
• Cookstoves: Provide safer, more efficient cooking for families.
• Water Filters: Help provide clean drinking water.
• Vacation Bible School: Share God’s love through Bible lessons, crafts, songs, and games.
• Sports Camps: Build relationships with children and teenagers through sports and activities.
• Medical Missions: Serve communities through medical and dental outreach.
• Construction Projects: Help with needs at Child Beyond’s new property as opportunities are available.
Experience the beauty, culture, and history of Guatemala
Mission teams usually set aside one day during their trip for sightseeing
• Antigua: Explore historic streets, local shops, restaurants, and optional activities such as ziplining, ATV tours, and coffee tours.
• Lake Atitlán: Enjoy breathtaking lake views, visit nearby villages by boat, and consider activities such as ziplining.
• Pacaya Volcano: Hike one of Guatemala’s most well-known volcanoes, with options such as horseback riding, roasting marshmallows, and enjoying pizza cooked with heat from the volcanic rocks.
• Iximché Mayan Ruins: Discover an important Mayan archaeological site and learn more about Guatemala’s history and culture through a guided visit.
Tourist Day gives teams a meaningful opportunity to rest, enjoy fellowship, and experience more of the beautiful country they have come to serve.
Questions?
Child Beyond is located near San Cristobal, Guatemala. Missions teams typically fly into Guatemala City and travel to San Cristobal where they stay at the Child Beyond International Team housing center. Teams work with villages in the rural areas surrounding the city.
You'll work as a team to build homes, build cooking stoves, install water filters, and share God’s love with children and families. You’ll complete projects that advance our work at the children’s home. You’ll have some time for sightseeing and shopping. But most of all, this trip is focused on reaching beyond yourself to others, with Jesus’ love and grace.
Most trips are about 7-10 days.
Mission trip cost varies, but most are between $1200-$1300 (Not including round-trip airfare)
This includes all of the following:
- Lodging in a comfortable, secure mission team housing center
- All daily transportation, including airport pickup and drop off
- Local project manager, translator and equipment for all projects
- Daily breakfast, lunch and dinner
- A donation to help with the loving care of our orphans at God’s Grace Children’s Home
- One day touring Antigua, the famous Spanish colonial city or another tourist destination.
Mission Team Project Costs
Any supplies needed for outreach projects such as stoves, water filters, the building of homes, etc., will depend on what your team decides to do. The project cost is covered by your team.
The cost for these life-changing projects are as follows:
- Efficiency Stoves: $300
- Water Filters: $55 each
- Two-bedroom Home: $4,600.00
Children age 8 and up are permitted to travel with an adult. A valid passport is required. Up-to-date immunizations based on your doctor’s advice are recommended, including Typhoid and Hepatitis A.
For more information or questions: Before your trip, please contact our Mission Teams Coordinator, Renee Mueller: admin@childbeyond.org
Once in country, please contact our Missions Director, Jorge Garcia: missions@childbeyond.org
Renee, our Mission Team Coordinator, would love to talk with you.
You can email her directly: admin@childbeyond.org
Credit: Slade Weaver
Go beyond your comfort zone
to change someone else’s life
