Cary and Rita Sills: JULY 2026

In July we were able to assist in two surgery weeks at Clinica Ezell. The month started with eye surgery and concluded with Ocular Plastics, General, and Gallbladder surgeries. Over 100 patients received operations that changed their way of life. We had many go home seeing for the first time in years and others leaving without constant pain. We love our time at Clinica Ezell and are blessed each and every week we get to serve the Guatemalans there.

There is a time each day where we are able to sing to the patients

Just taking a short break with friends.

In addition to serving two weeks at Clinica Ezell we were able to build 3 homes for families in Santa Maria and 14 rain catchment systems were installed. The town of Santa Maria still only turns on the water 2 days a week for 4 hours each day. Those living on the mountains must come down and fill their jugs and haul them back up to their homes to have water for drinking, cooking, and cleaning. It is a daily routine that those in Santa Maria endure without complaint

Maria Hernandez standing if front of her home before we built her and her family a new home,

She had bamboo and plastic for walls to keep the rain and wind out.

Maria and her family in front of their new home.

Blanca and her husband and daughter had a small concrete room on a small lot. The concrete room was built on the side of a mountain and had water flowing in all along the wall that was on the dirt path.

The family during our prayer of thanksgiving and blessing for the home.

Yeraldi is a precious little 6 year old girl who has not had the opportunity to go to school.

She so wanted to learn

Blanca and her extended family made lunch for us on the second day of the house build.

We were able to get Yeraldi enrolled in EDUMA, a pre-school and after school program, thanks to generous donors. She will be able to learn and get ready to start 1st grade in January.

Blanca and family in front of their finished home

Marta Chavez and her family were living with relatives, she only had a small space where she cooked and they stored their belongings.

Marta and her family in front of their new home.

The rain catchment systems we install are much needed at this time due to the water shortage in Santa Maria. We have many, many on the list for systems and are able to get about 20 a month installed. We hope to have over 200 installed by the end of the year. Here are a few pictures of the ones installed this month. Each family also receives the Gospel message of Christ, a bible, and is invited to church here in Santa Maria if they do not already have a church home.

In addition to the construction and medical clinics we were able to feed the children at Campos. It is such a joy to serve these precious children each and every week.

This is a picture of some of the surgery team from Clinica Ezell that spent a few hours Friday afternoon with us feeding and serving the children.

Belinda used to be a child that came to the feeding center, then became a worker at the center and is now studying to become a nurse. She was having vision issues and we were able to provide her with a pair of much needed glasses.