CESSMAQ, Centro Evangélico de Servicio y Socorro Maya Quiché (the Evangelical Committee for Service and Support of Maya Quiche Presbytery), provides a ministry of church planting, literacy and theological education, advocacy for community health, and agricultural economic development projects, transforming lives throughout the highlands of western Guatemala.

While CESSMAQ is a Presbyterian organization and agency of the Maya Quiche Presbytery of the National Presbyterian Church of Guatemala, CESSMAQ works ecumenically with and has received support from many Christian traditions, and is committed to communities in need regardless of their faith tradition.

Aid to CESSMAQ is provided by several organizations in the USA including the PC(USA) Mission Presbytery Guatemala Partnership Committee who manage this web site. This committee contains members from a wide collection of (mostly) Presbyterian churches in Central Texas and works to raise funds for CESSMAQ programs in Guatemala and to increase awareness of the needs of the Guatemalan rural poor through presentations, outreach activities and mission trips.

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