Play. Connect. Transform.

Use your energy, gifts, and love for kids to build relationships, serve communities, and share the love of Jesus.

Through VBS-style programs, Bible clubs, sports outreach, camps, games, crafts, worship, and creative activities, you’ll serve alongside local ministry leaders and connect with children and families in meaningful, personal ways.

This trip is ideal for individuals, families, students, and church groups who love working with kids—or simply have a heart to serve, encourage, and share Jesus in a cross-cultural setting. You don’t have to be a professional teacher, coach, or children’s ministry leader. You just need a willing heart and a desire to invest in the next generation.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Partner with local ministry leaders who are already invested in their communities and children.
• Create spaces of joy and connection where kids can feel seen, valued, safe, and experience the love of Jesus.
• Bring ministry to life through VBS-style programs, Bible clubs, soccer camps, games, crafts, music, skits, worship, and creative activities.
• Build relationships through hands-on ministry that opens doors for conversations, encouragement, prayer, and sharing the Gospel.
• Serve in several of Guatemala’s largest cities while staying at one of our local CFCI bases.

You’ll fly into Guatemala City, Guatemala, and stay in a Christ For the City International guesthouse while experiencing ministry alongside local leaders and communities.

Your Love for Kids Can Be a Ministry.

You may come ready to lead a soccer game, teach a Bible lesson, organize a craft, lead worship, or simply sit and listen to a child’s story. God can use all of it.

If you’re ready to use your gifts to serve, connect with kids, and make a difference, inquire on this page to learn more and find out how you can be part of the team.

Build Something That Lasts.

Use your hands, skills, and willingness to serve to strengthen communities, support local churches, and share the love of Jesus.

Through construction and service projects in Guatemala, you’ll come alongside local churches, ministry centers, schools, and community spaces to help meet practical needs while building relationships and sharing the love of Jesus.

Projects can include painting, repairs, building improvements, maintenance, community spaces, ministry facilities, classrooms, churches, sheds, outreach centers, and other hands-on service opportunities based on current needs in the community.

This trip is ideal for individuals, families, students, church groups, skilled workers, and anyone who is willing to work hard and serve in a cross-cultural setting. You don’t have to be a professional contractor. Whether you have years of construction experience or simply know how to show up, work hard, and lend a hand, there’s a place for you on the team.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Partner with local churches and ministry leaders who are already deeply invested in their communities.
• Use practical skills to meet real needs through painting, repairs, construction, maintenance, and building improvements.
• Help create safe, welcoming spaces where children, families, and communities can experience hope, connection, and the love of Jesus.
• Build relationships through service by working alongside local leaders, churches, and community members.
• Serve in several of Guatemala’s largest cities while staying at one of our local CFCI bases.

You’ll fly into Guatemala City, Guatemala, and stay in a Christ For the City International guesthouse while experiencing ministry alongside local leaders and communities.

Your Hands Can Be Part of God’s Work.

Sometimes ministry looks like leading worship or sharing your testimony. Sometimes it looks like painting a wall, building a classroom, repairing a roof, organizing supplies, or helping create a space where a child feels safe and welcomed.

You don’t need to have every skill or know how to do everything. You just need to be willing to serve.

If you’re ready to put your hands to work, build meaningful relationships, and make a practical difference, inquire on this page to learn more and find out how you can be part of the team.

Go. Listen. Share Jesus.

Use your words, presence, and willingness to build relationships, serve communities, and share the love of Jesus.

Through prayer ministry, community outreach, discipleship, worship, family visits, children’s ministry, sports outreach, and conversations in everyday spaces, you’ll serve alongside local churches and ministry leaders who are faithfully reaching their communities with the Gospel.

This trip is ideal for individuals, families, students, youth groups, and church groups who want to grow in evangelism, discipleship, and cross-cultural ministry. You don’t need to be a professional speaker or have all the right words. You simply need a willing heart, a desire to listen, and a willingness to point people toward Jesus through both words and actions.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Partner with local pastors and ministry leaders who are already deeply invested in their communities.
• Create opportunities for people to experience prayer, encouragement, discipleship, community, and the love of God in tangible ways.
• Share the Gospel through relationships by listening to stories, having meaningful conversations, sharing your testimony, praying with individuals and families, and serving with humility.
• Serve through a variety of outreach opportunities including community events, family visits, street evangelism, worship, sports, children’s ministry, youth outreach, and VBS-style programs.
• Serve in several of Guatemala’s largest cities while staying at one of our local CFCI bases.

You’ll fly into Guatemala City, Guatemala, and stay in a Christ For the City International guesthouse while experiencing ministry alongside local leaders and communities.

Your Story Can Point Someone to Jesus.

Evangelism isn’t about having the perfect presentation or knowing exactly what to say. It’s about loving people well, listening to their stories, serving with humility, and being willing to share the hope of Christ.

You may pray with a family in their home, encourage a child through a soccer game, worship alongside a local church, share your testimony, or simply take the time to listen to someone’s story. God can use every conversation, every prayer, and every act of love.

If you’re ready to grow in evangelism, build meaningful relationships, and share the love of Jesus, inquire on this page to learn more and find out how you can be part of the team.

Create. Worship. Connect.

Use your musical gifts to build relationships, encourage others, and share the hope of Jesus.

Through worship, music workshops, community outreach, children’s programs, discipleship, and relationship-based ministry, you’ll serve alongside Guatemalan ministry leaders and use music as a way to connect with children, youth, families, and communities.

This trip is ideal for musicians, worship leaders, singers, bands, students, young adults, church groups, and individuals who want to use their musical gifts in a cross-cultural setting. Whether you play guitar, piano, drums, or another instrument, sing, lead worship, or simply love making music with others, there are opportunities to serve. You don’t have to be a professional musician. You simply need a willingness to share your gifts and connect with people.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Partner with Guatemalan ministry leaders who are already deeply invested in their communities and the people they serve.
• Use music to build relationships through worship, music activities, workshops, performances, and creative outreach.
• Encourage children and youth through music lessons, group activities, songwriting, games, and opportunities to discover and develop their own gifts.
• Support local churches and ministries through worship, discipleship, prayer, testimonies, and community outreach.
• Serve in communities throughout Guatemala while experiencing ministry alongside local leaders and churches.

You’ll fly into Guatemala City, Guatemala, and stay in a Christ For the City International guesthouse while experiencing ministry alongside local leaders and communities.

Your Music Can Open a Door.

Music has a way of bringing people together. A song can start a conversation. A guitar can gather a group of kids. A worship set can create space to encounter God. A shared musical experience can build a relationship that lasts far beyond the moment.

You may lead worship, teach a child a few guitar chords, help with a music workshop, play alongside a local church, sing with a group of young people, share your testimony, or simply make music with others. You don’t have to perform perfectly. You just have to be willing to use what you have.

If you’re ready to use your musical gifts to serve, build meaningful relationships, and point people toward the hope of Jesus, inquire on this page to learn more and find out how you can be part of the team.

Support. Encourage. Bring Hope. 

Use your skills, compassion, and willingness to serve to support healing, strengthen local ministry, and share the hope of Jesus. 

This trip is ideal for mental health professionals, churches, students, professionals, and individuals who want to support a ministry bringing hope and healing to their community. Because counseling is deeply personal and confidential, short-term teams do not typically participate directly in therapy sessions or patient care. Instead, teams can support the ministry through encouragement, prayer, resources, facilities, professional training, and other practical ways.

What You’ll Be Doing 

• Partner with Guatemalan ministry leaders and professionals who are already deeply invested in the emotional and spiritual well-being of their communities.

• Support the Psychology Clinic through prayer, encouragement, supplies, therapeutic materials, facility improvements, and other practical needs.

• Encourage and equip local professionals through specialized training, professional mentorship, collaboration, and development opportunities when appropriate.

• Strengthen the ministry behind the scenes by helping create peaceful, welcoming spaces where people can receive care with dignity, privacy, and respect.

• Serve alongside the broader CFCI ministry base through community outreach, prayer, and relationship-building opportunities.

Your Support Can Help Create Space for Healing. 

You may pray with staff, help furnish a counseling space, provide needed supplies, offer professional training, support outreach efforts, or simply encourage the people faithfully serving this ministry. Every act of support helps strengthen a place where healing can begin. 

If you’re ready to support a ministry that is bringing compassion, dignity, healing, and hope to people who may have nowhere else to turn, inquire on this page to learn more and find out how you can be part of the team. 

Love. Encourage. Empower. 

Use your time, compassion, and presence to build relationships, support families, and share the love of Jesus. 

Through Bible studies & mentorship, prayer ministry & encouragement, grocery bag & food distribution, relationship-building & listening, testimony sharing, women’s ministry, and community programs, you’ll serve alongside local ministry leaders and connect with teen moms, young women, girls, and families in meaningful ways.

This trip is ideal for individuals, families, students, young adults, women’s groups, and church groups who want to encourage young women and families while growing in cross-cultural ministry. You don’t need to have all the answers or be a professional counselor or childcare worker. You simply need compassion, humility, and a willingness to love people well.

What You’ll Be Doing 

• Partner with local ministry leaders who are already deeply invested in the lives of young women, mothers, and families.

• Build relationships with teen moms and girls through mentorship, encouragement, shared meals, activities, and meaningful conversations.

• Support children and families through childcare, daycare assistance, games, VBS-style activities, and practical care.

• Create spaces of belonging and hope where young women and their children feel seen, valued, safe, supported, and reminded they are not alone.

• Serve in several of Guatemala’s largest cities while staying at one of our local CFCI bases.

You’ll fly into Guatemala City, Guatemala, and stay in a Christ For the City International guesthouse while experiencing ministry alongside local leaders and communities.

Your Presence Can Remind Someone They’re Not Alone. 

Many young mothers and teenage girls in the communities we serve are navigating poverty, instability, limited opportunities, broken relationships, addiction, abuse, or a lack of support. Sometimes the most powerful ministry is simply showing up consistently. 

You may care for children, lead a game, help with a craft, assist with a women’s program, share a meal, encourage a young mom, pray with a family, or simply sit and listen. Every conversation, every act of encouragement, and every relationship can become a reminder of God’s love.

If you’re ready to serve, build meaningful relationships, and encourage young women and families with the hope of Jesus, inquire on this page to learn more and find out how you can be part of the team. 

Equip. Encourage. Transform.

Use your skills and compassion to build relationships, affirm women, and share the hope of Jesus.

Through hair styling and beauty services, manicures, aesthetic care, discipleship, mentorship, and community outreach, you’ll serve alongside local ministry leaders and create meaningful opportunities for women to experience connection, encouragement, and care.

This trip is ideal for individuals, families, students, young adults, church groups, and women’s groups who want to use their talents to serve women in a cross-cultural setting. You don’t have to be an expert or have everything figured out. You simply need a willingness to serve, learn, and connect with others.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Partner with local ministry leaders who are already invested in the women and families in their communities.
• Provide beauty and personal care services such as hair styling, manicures, skincare, and other aesthetic services.
• Build meaningful relationships through conversation, mentorship, prayer, and discipleship.
• Create welcoming spaces where women feel seen and valued while offering encouragement, practical care, and opportunities for connection.
• Serve in several of Guatemala’s largest cities while staying at one of our local CFCI bases.

You’ll fly into Guatemala City, Guatemala, and stay in a Christ For the City International guesthouse while experiencing ministry alongside local leaders and communities.

Sometimes Confidence Starts With a Conversation.

For women facing poverty, limited opportunities, and difficult circumstances, a simple act of personal care can become an opportunity to slow down, connect, and feel valued. What happens in the chair can be about much more than hair, nails, or skincare.

You may style someone’s hair, give a manicure, offer skincare advice, share coffee and conversation, pray with a woman, or simply take the time to listen. These everyday moments can open the door to encouragement, friendship, discipleship, and the hope of Jesus.

If you’re ready to use your talents to serve women, build genuine relationships, and make a difference, inquire on this page to learn more and find out how you can be part of the team.

Play. Mentor. Transform.

Use your love of sports to build relationships, encourage others, and share the hope of Jesus. 

In Guatemala, sports are more than games—they’re a bridge to relationships, mentorship, community, and the hope of Jesus. Through soccer and basketball outreach, sports camps, team practices, tournaments, discipleship, community events, and relationship-based ministry, you’ll serve alongside local leaders and connect with children, teens, women, and men in meaningful ways.

This trip is ideal for sports teams, churches, schools, students, young adults, families, and individuals who love sports or simply enjoy encouraging others. You don’t have to play competitively or be a professional coach. You just need a willingness to show up, build relationships, and use sports as a way to serve others.

What You’ll Be Doing 

• Partner with local ministry leaders who are already deeply invested in their communities and the people they serve.

• Use sports to build relationships through soccer outreach, tournaments, camps, clinics, practices, and team-building activities.

• Create positive spaces for kids and teens where they can experience belonging, encouragement, mentorship, teamwork, and the love of Jesus.

• Build relationships through discipleship and outreach by sharing testimonies, praying with others, encouraging spiritual growth, and investing in young people.

• Serve in several of Guatemala’s largest cities while staying at one of our local CFCI bases.

You’ll fly into Guatemala City, Guatemala, and stay in a Christ For the City International guesthouse while experiencing ministry alongside local leaders and communities.

Your Love of Sports Can Be a Ministry. 

For many young people, especially those growing up around poverty, family instability, violence, addiction, and limited opportunities, sports can offer something different: a place to belong, people to trust, a team to be part of, and a community where they can discover purpose and hope.

You may lead a soccer practice, organize a basketball tournament, encourage a young athlete, pray with a family, share your testimony, or simply spend time getting to know someone. Every game can open a door. Every relationship can create an opportunity.

If you’re ready to use sports to serve, build meaningful relationships, and point people toward the hope of Jesus, inquire on this page to learn more and find out how you can be part of the team. 

Bring Your Gifts. Make an Impact.

Use your passions, skills, and ideas to build relationships, serve communities, and share the love of Jesus.

If your team has a passion, skill, idea, or ministry vision, we would love to help you use it to make an impact. Through CFCI Guatemala, churches, schools, sports teams, young adults, families, creatives, professionals, and individuals to serve in a wide variety of ministries throughout the year.

At CFCI, we believe the Gospel is holistic. That means we care about both spiritual and practical needs—serving communities through relationships, compassion, discipleship, creativity, education, encouragement, and the love of Jesus.

Some teams serve through sports outreach and kids’ clubs. Others lead art workshops, English classes, after-school tutoring, construction projects, leadership training, medical outreach, family visits, women’s ministry, or evangelism. Some teams bring supplies and teach practical skills. Some organize games and camps. Some paint murals. Some mentor students. Some simply show up ready to love people well and serve wherever needed.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Partner with local ministry leaders who are already deeply invested in their communities.
• Use your team’s gifts and passions through sports, art, music, education, construction, medical outreach, children’s ministry, women’s ministry, leadership training, evangelism, and more.
• Build relationships with children, teens, families, pastors, and communities through hands-on ministry that meets both spiritual and practical needs.
• Serve where you’re needed most while exploring creative ways to use your team’s unique skills and experience.
• Serve in several of Guatemala’s largest cities while staying at one of our local CFCI bases.

You’ll fly into Guatemala City, Guatemala, and stay in a Christ For the City International guesthouse while experiencing ministry alongside local leaders and communities.

Your Passion Can Become Your Ministry.

Maybe you love sports. Maybe you’re passionate about education, art, music, construction, medicine, mentoring, or evangelism. Maybe your team has a completely unique idea or skill set. Whatever you bring, God can use it.

Some of the most meaningful moments happen when people simply use what they already love and place it in God’s hands.

If you’re ready to use your gifts to serve, connect with communities, and make a difference, inquire on this page to learn more and find out how you can be part of the team.