Enabling the Local Church to Reach Others With the Love of Christ

Empowering indigenous churches in Guatemala

In a country of volcanic vistas and a significant indigenous population, the National Evangelical Primitive Methodist Church of Guatemala is growing. With your support, missionaries like Edwin Campomanes Ramirez are helping this church of indigenous, mostly K’iche’, believers become self-sustaining so that it can reach more communities with the love of Christ.

Campomanes Ramirez was born in Mexico where he worked as a banker. He became invested in mission when a medical team from Tennessee began serving in his hometown.

“[Participating in the mission] was a … life-changing experience for me,” he explains. “… I never would have thought that my skills and my talents were needed in mission. So, the first time [the mission team arrived], that changed me, because I started to appreciate how these foreign brothers and sisters were selflessly helping my fellow countrymen.”

Three years ago, Campomanes Ramirez became a Global Ministries missionary as the assistant to the president for institutional development in Quetzaltenango, a Guatemalan economic and cultural hub nestled at the foot of the Santa María volcano. Here, Campomanes Ramirez helps congregations nationwide develop stewardship and communications policies and procedures. The goal is to move these congregations from dependence on donations to financial security that will not only sustain them but also enable them to do compassionate and evangelistic outreach.

“What I’m doing here, how I’m serving,” explains Campomanes Ramirez, “is enabling the local church to reach new areas of people. By using resources in the correct way, we can actually reach more people who don’t know anything about the gospel and have never heard the word of God.”

Together we are the church on mission.