Missions Frontier is a Christian development organization providing administration and resources that encourage local initiative in business and education.
Missions Frontier is a non-denominational, non-profit organization that provides leadership, administration and support to the local people of Guatemala. Missions Frontier intentionally focuses their efforts on projects that will produce long-term solutions and are sustainable without on-going dependency on American funds. Missions Frontier seeks to empower God's people to fulfill His "Great Commission" by developing the gifts He has given each believer, by providing appropriate opportunities to utilize those gifts and skills, and by assisting with resources to support those opportunities. Missions Frontier is able to assist the local people of Chichicastenango through business development, education, home construction, medical clinics, and other community development projects. To find out more about missions frontier please visit website at www.missionsfrontier.org.
KINGDOM BUSINESS
Self-sustaining Business Development. Dependency can be defined as the unhealthy reliance on foreign resources, personnel, and ideas, which stifles local initiative. Missions Frontier is intentional about creating opportunities and jobs with which the local people can support their families and their local churches. In Chichicastenango, the average worker supports 8-10 family members. (Employing one person
theoretically supports 8-10 people.).....
CASA DEL REY HOTEL - The hotel is a vital hub for Missions Frontier, from which flow multiple ministries.. The hotel itself is the location for short term trips, conferences, a bilingual school, a school for missionary children, English camps for Guatemalan children/orphans a missionary church. Each year over $300,000 has been poured into the local economy through normal business operations. The hotel has provided an additional $100,000 of direct financial support through the projects completed by short term mission teams. The hotel provides over 50 jobs for local residents at a wage dramatically higher than the average daily wage in the area. In 2007, the Hotel Casa Del Rey was able to donate land for a New Water Tank to the city of Chichicastenango. www.hotelcasadelrey.com .
CAFE PADRINO - Through the purchase of Café Padrino coffee, the Perez Plantation is able to improve the standard of living for their employees and their children, providing better housing, health care, training and education. Cafe Padrino is a division of Missions Frontier, Inc., a 501c3 not-for-profit organization. Grown at the base of the Acatenango and Fuego Volcanoes in the Acatenango Region of the Central Highlands of Guatemala. Ideal rainfall patterns, high mountain ranges, and rich volcanic soil provide the perfect environment to grow one of the best gourmet coffees of Guatemala. Café Padrino gives the taster the richness of elements to enjoy in a delicate balance of acidity, body and aroma.
HEALTH CARE & SUPPORT MEDICAL CLINICS
We provide equipment support, provide channels for affordable prescription drugs, initiate and support medical teams and provide health care training. Medical clinics focus their efforts on reaching villages that have little access to physicians and hospitals and health care.
COMMUNITY HOUSING PROJECTS
Aiding the local community through the construction of homes for those most in need. Using the local Church, we construct homes for widows and families most in need. Community housing projects are designed to help families overcome the obstacles to home ownership by facilitating home loans and construction.
CASA SALAZAR
Casa Salazar is run by Jose and Shari Salazar with a mission to provide a stable and loving Christian based home for up to 8 displaced children. The primary purpose of "Casa Salazar" is to provide children who are unable to remain in their natural birth homes because of extenuating circumstances, a safe and loving, stable Christian family environment that instills Christian values. Casa Salazar is committed to raising each child until adulthood at which time we hope they can become positive role models and contributing members of the church and community.
ENGLISH CAMPS
Each year we host English camps for orphans, children from the Guatemala City Dump and other special needs children. While at camp, children have opportunity to learn English and experience their country and have a Christian summer camp experience. While in Chichi, children enjoy games, campfires, devotions, swimming, excursions to Lake Atitlan,and of course -English Classes.
SHORT-TERM MISSION PROJECTS
We arrange short-term mission opportunities for churches from the states. Short term trips give groups an opportunity to use their individual gifts to serve the Guatemalan people, to aid the local Christian Church and to hear and see Christ at work in and through the Guatemalan people. Plan Trip
Mission Trip information http://www.missionsfrontier.org/missiontrips.html
