Members from Apostles Lutheran Church, Gloucester, joined a Partners in Development mission team that traveled to Guatemala the week of March 8 to provide medical care, medication, counseling and to distribute water filters. Medical clinics were held in Xojola and Ixtacapa. Many patients were treated and several water filters were handed out. Health kits, toothbrushes and toothpaste and glasses were given to patients. In addition, several computers and monitors were installed in the school in Ixtacapa. This is an annual trip; plans for next year’s trip will begin in the fall. Above, the women of Westville Christian Women’s Fellowship prepared health kits to be donated. They are, from left, Mary Beth Almond, Darla Sutton, Frankie Edmondson, Maurine Frank and Diana Swenson. Below, the Medical Mission and Construction Team through PID arrive in Guatemala City with health kits, glasses (donated by the Mathews Lions Club), seven used computers and medicines. Team members came together from ...