Guatemala

Scott and Susan have traveled to Guatemala every year since 2014 — over a decade of unbroken, personal commitment. Not as donors writing checks from afar, but as volunteers on the ground, doing the work with their own hands.

Year after year, they return to rural communities where they install wood-burning stoves (replacing dangerous open fires that fill homes with smoke), set up water filters for clean drinking water, and support pre-K through adult schools, job training programs, and healthcare services.

Twelve years in, this isn’t a project the family does — it’s part of who the family is. The next generation is deeply involved: Kendrick leads the associate board for the Guatemala work, and siblings, partners, and extended family have all joined the trips over the years.