Impacting a Community
One Life at a Time
In 2020, Alejandro and Kathryn Ortiz, members of Central Church, heard the call to serve God in Alejandro’s home in Guatemala. Answering the call, they moved their family to Cubulco, a small town in the mountains north of Guatemala City. There, they are bringing the Good News as Alejandro ministers to a congregation in the mountains outside town.
Facts About Cubulco Guatemala
- Population of 54,869 of which 80% are of Mayan descent
- The unemployment rate is high
- Many men leave their families for 3 to 6 months and travel several hours away on the coast to work on sugar and coffee plantations. The conditions on these farms are very poor.
- Upon their return home, many men are in poor health due to poor working conditions. Much of their earnings are spent to treat their illness.
- The water that is available and collected every morning is not clean and contains many parasites causing illness.
The Ortiz Family
Starting in 2020, Alejandro & Kathryn along with their 4 children moved to Cubulco. They spent a couple of years serving the the Mayan Achi community in Cubulco, Guatemala.
Alejandro is originally from this community and still has family living in the area. In the late 90’s he worked in church planting, Bible translation, community development as well as literacy and a weekly Christian radio program in the local Achi language. It was during that time that Alejandro met Kathryn, the daughter of missionaries working in the area. After 10 years he and his family moved to Canada, where he volunteered with a local mission outreach to seasonal migrant workers in addition to participating in the Mission Committee at Central.
Since their return to Cambridge, the Ortiz family, along with Central, have continued to work to make a differences in the lives of people living in Cubulco.
These efforts are the genesis of the Chicken Project, an effort to improve the self-sufficiency of people struggling to make ends meet amid the poverty that surrounds them. Our efforts are focussed on real and practical demonstrations of God’s love in action. This is our purpose and our mission.
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