Coastal Work HTI supports a network of clinics in the Suchitepequez Department of Western Guatemala. The majority of patients in this area are of Mayan descent and have little access to health care. Like the Clinica Promesa, it includes programs of primary health care treatment, spiritual health care, appropriate technology development, and the training of Christian health care promoters. Dr. Sergio Castillo, a Guatemalan Christian physician, is HTI's Guatemalan medical director. The Meadowbrook Church of Christ in Jackson, Mississippi, sponsors him and his family.
Sponsors receive a photo and biographical sketch of the child they commit to sponsor.
The children write letters to their sponsors periodically throughout the year, and sponsors can write or visit their child in Guatemala if they desire. About 250 children from several different congregations are currently enrolled in this program. If you would like to be a sponsor, contact the coordinator. They also receive hands-on field training, working side by side with full time medical evangelists as they carry out appropriate activities. Students help with such things as immunization campaigns, community development projects, and primary care mobile clinics in remote Mayan villages.