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Nine-year-old Chile, daughter of student Ricardo Santay Canto, makes tortillas outside her family’s Guatemala City home.

Kirby and Misty Hartman from the Johnson Avenue church, San Angelo, Texas, pose in downtown Guatemala City.

Misty Hartman from the Johnson Avenue church, San Angelo, Texas, in front of a mural of Jesus and children at the North Pineras church, Guatemala City.

Martha Alvarez and her daughter, Leah, 10, inside a benevolence supply room at the North Pineras church, Guatemala City. Their husband and father, Roberto, is the church's minister.

Minister Roberto Alvarez at the entry to the North Pineras church, Guatemala City.

Isaac, 7, son of minister Roberto Alvarez, at Sunday school at the North Pineras church, Guatemala City.

Students at the Guatemala City campus of the Biblical Institute of Central America.

Luis Fernando Mendez leads singing at the Guatemala City campus of the Biblical Institute of Central America. Mendez is a student at the institute and an elder at the North Pineras church.

Carlos Rene Mendez Hernandez, a member of the North Pinares church, Guatemala City, operates a rehabilitation center for alcoholics.

Bill Johnson, an elder with the Fairmont Park church, Midland Texas, poses with an armed guard and a Ronald McDonald statue outside a McDonald’s in Guatemala City.

Ted McKissick, left, a deacon with the Belton, Texas, church prays along with Roberto Alvarez, minister of the North Pineras church, Guatemala City, for a woman needing a prescription for a child. McKissick and Terry Justice, a member of the Fairmont Park church, Midland, Texas, helped the woman, who lives in Teculutan, Guatemala.

Roberto Caal, left, minister of the church at Las Tres Marias, Guatemala, listens as a church member addresses visitors from the United States.

Children at the church in Las Tres Marias, Guatemala.

A little boy at the church in Las Tres Marias, Guatemala.

Bill Johnson, right, with the Blue Starr church, Claremore, Okla., greets a church member at a village in the mountains of Guatemala.

Horses graze along a street in Choluteca, Honduras, with a neon Wendy's sign in the background.

A little girl watches from behind a fence as Elmer Garcia, a 17-year-old student from the Biblical Institute of Central America, joins in a campaign meeting on the outskirts of Choluteca, Honduras.

Samuel Vasquez, director of the El Progreso, Honduras campus of the Biblical Institute of Central America, in a village on the outskirts of Choluteca, Honduras, site of a recent campaign.

Junior Euceda, 16, is baptized in a kiddie pool during a campaign by Biblical Institute of Central America students in the outskirts of Choluteca, Honduras.

Beto Alvarez, 14, son of Roberto Alvarez, minister of the North Pineras church, Guatemala City, poses in front of a tourist-attraction map in his hometown.

George Hall hugs 19-year-old Laura Carolina Ixehop Ixcayau after praying with her. A student at the Biblical Institute of Central America in Guatemala City, she has been battling painful back problems. Seated is Roberto Alvarez, the Guatemala City school's director and minister of the North Pineras church.

Misty Hartman is baptized by her husband, Kirby, in a hotel swimming pool in Guastatoya, Guatemala. Misty was baptized in a denominational tradition earlier in life, but decided she needed to be baptized for the forgiveness of sins after studying with George Hall. The Hartmans attend the Johnson Avenue church, San Angelo, Texas.