Sponsor a Child

Impact a Guatemalan Child’s Life by providing the means to an Education


Your sponsorship enables a child in Guatemala to attend an Impact Ministries school where they will receive an academic education and be taught to know and love the Lord!

Sponsor a child for $49, $69 or $89 per month. Your sponsorship bridges the gap to the actual cost of providing education and comprehensive care to children in Guatemala, and breaks the cycle of poverty and illiteracy!

What does my sponsorship provide?

what does my monthly donation provide for my child?

How do I choose a child to Sponsor?

walk me through the process of sponsoring a child in Guatemala

How can I stay in touch with my child?

and what communication will I receive as a sponsor?

Important Links

I need to log in to my Sponsorsoft account or set up a donation

Some Sponsor Child Stories

stories about sponsor children shared on the Impact Ministries blog

What does my Sponsorship provide?

In the rural areas of Guatemala, more than 75% of Indigenous people live in poverty. Many Guatemalan children don’t complete elementary school. At a Vida school, Christian teachers – many of whom were once Vida students themselves – are personally involved in your student’s life on a daily basis. We reach out to your child’s family and encourage them to be involved in a local church. Our leaders, teachers and support staff provide godly role models to help your child know the Lord and become all that He intends for them to be!

Your monthly investment helps break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy in Guatemala by providing comprehensive care to your sponsor child:

  • a broad academic education at one of our Vida Christian schools
  • a daily nutritious meal and vitamins
  • medical and dental care through the Vida Clinic for your child’s whole family
  • Christian discipleship and mentoring
  • school apparel and new shoes

You can choose to sponsor at $49, $69 or $89/month or even more:

  • $49/month – minimum sponsorship
  • $69/month – helps bridge the gap between the minimum and actual costs
  • $89/month – covers the FULL cost of education, meals and care for one child

All students receive the full benefit of sponsorship regardless of the amount given (some services are funded through other gifts to Impact Ministries).

You can also bless your sponsor child through your prayers and encouragement!

You can sponsor your child throughout their time in our Vida Schools. For most of our students, this is until they graduate in Grade 10. Some students continue on to the Vida Teacher Training Program or the Vida Extension Program, and they can be sponsored through Grade 12 or 13. We have many sponsors who have been faithful in supporting their child through their entire education! When your child leaves the Vida School program, we will let you know and offer you a new child whose life you can impact through your sponsorship.

How do I choose a child to sponsor?

  1. Click “See Available Sponsor Children” to see Guatemalan students still waiting for a sponsor like you
  2. Personally select your sponsor child from all the students available for sponsorship
  3. Once you click “Sponsor this Child”, you’ll be prompted to login or signup to our sponsorsoft platform to complete the sponsorship process.  There, you’ll have access to your child’s picture and online information package
  4. Don’t forget to set up your monthly sponsorship donation within 48 hrs to ensure that you are matched with the child that you have chosen

How can I communicate with my child?

Communication with your sponsor child in Guatemala is easy through our Sponsorsoft System!

Log in to Sponsorsoft with the email address you used to sponsor your child, and click on messages > compose message to write to your child. You can even attach a picture! Our teachers are great at helping their students answer your letters!

You will also receive a yearly photo update of your child from your child’s teacher.

Important Links

Important Links

Log in to your Sponsorsoft Account
See children still waiting for a sponsor
Give a Special Occasion Gift
Set up your monthly sponsorship donation online
Print a Pre-authorized debit (PAD) agreement form to manually set up automatic withdrawals from your bank account
Renew your annual sponsorship pledge

Sponsorship Month Resource Package

Church Edition
School Edition

Sponsorsoft Information

Sponsorsoft connects you with your sponsor child in Guatemala. This is separate from our Donor Portal.

  • If you currently sponsor a child or class, you already have an account

If you don’t know your password, click on “Lost Password?” and enter the email address you used to sponsor your child to request a password. You’ll be sent a link to set your password, and then you’ll be ready to view your child under the “my sponsorship” tab and find your inbox under the “messages” tab.

  • If you would like to become a sponsor, you will need to sign up for a Sponsorsoft account

Click on “Sign up” and enter your name, your email address and a password. You will be sent a verification email with a link to activate your account, and then you’ll be ready to select a child from our children in Guatemala who are still waiting for a sponsor

No verification email? First, check your junk mail. If the verification email is not there, click “Lost Password?” on the Sponsorsoft site. Re-enter your email address and click the request reset password button. The link to set your password doubles as a verification email.

Having trouble? Contact us at child@impactministries.ca or (250) 434-4350 and we’ll walk you through the process.

Some Sponsor Child Stories

From Grade 3 to Grad Class

The students in this year’s teacher training grad class were in Grade 3 when the Support a Class program launched ten years ago. And there are some class supporters who have been walking alongside them since 2015! The 2025 Teacher Training Grad Class Over the course of ten years, sponsors Henry & Eileen and Jennifer & Shane have been a part of these students’ lives. Some students were in their sponsor class right from the very start, others joined as classes combined in higher grades or as new students started attending Vida school. Henry & Eileen’s Class 10 years ago…

Class Picture of young students wearing blue track pants and white Vida t-shirts or blue sweaters

Each and Every Sponsor is an Answer to Many Prayers!

Brothers & Sisters, in Guatemala, we’ve been celebrating sponsorship this month. As Operations Managers here in Guatemala, we want to say thank you for sharing the love of Jesus with our children! The love you share is reflected in the smiles of the kids and their teachers when they hear they are being sponsored by brothers and sisters like you! The Love You Share is Reflected in the Smiles of Children and their Teachers We still have more children and classes waiting for sponsors. Will you keep praying with us and help us identify those who God is calling to…

A Guatemalan girl with her eyes closed, hands folded and head bowed praying at her desk. Behind is another child in a blue Vida school sweater and a tan hat also praying

Coming Alongside a Whole Class

This year, as we celebrate sponsorship throughout the month of May, we want to make sure we’re also celebrating all our class sponsors. Class sponsors come alongside a whole class of students and provide essential resources for the class like school supplies and educational materials – even teachers’ salaries! One of the neatest things about sponsoring a class is that you become part of a cluster of sponsors, surrounding your class with love and support. That means you can choose to sponsor the same class together with friends and family and share the connection and the excitement! Sponsor a Class…

10 Years Ago, Impact Launched Support a Class

10 years ago, Impact launched the Support a Class program, asking ten sponsors to come alongside each class in our Vida Schools. 10 years later, the reasons why still sound all too familiar: the gap between what child sponsorship covers and the actual expenses to care comprehensively for kids in Vida Schools new laws in Guatemala driving up educational expenses the implications of the global economy a heartfelt desire to take better care of Vida staff who sacrifice so much for the sake of the Gospel  Support a Class 10 years ago, sponsors stepped up. In 2015, 104 sponsors became…

We See Incredible People Who Are Inspired To Love And Sponsor Our Children

“I used to be a student at one of the Vida schools – at Vida Purulhá,” Teacher Cindy shares. “I remember clearly that there were only a few classrooms. But every year, more groups of students would arrive, and new sponsors who wanted to support the children came.” Teacher Cindy’s childhood school when it had only a few classrooms Every May, we celebrate sponsorship at Impact Ministries. In the midst of celebrating 25 years of Impact, there’s so much worth celebrating!  the first Impact child was sponsored in 2001 Cindy was matched with her sponsor in 2009 in 2015, sponsors…

Isn’t God Absolutely Amazing?!?

2025 marks 25 years of Impact Ministries serving in Guatemala – can you believe it? In the year 2000, Les and Rita stepped out in faith and drove from Canada to Guatemala with their three young children. In the year 2000, they moved their family into the little A-frame house in the highlands of northern Guatemala and started exploring where and how God would have them minister. In the year 2000, a student named Hector graduated Grade 10 from the little Christian school in Tactic that would soon become the first Vida school. Twenty-five years later, Hector is the lead pastor of…

A crowd of children and teachers looking up and waving. 25 Years of Impact Logo in top right corner

The Difference a Hug Makes

Have you ever seen photos of friends hugging kids on a mission trip – or even hugged some kids yourself – and then wondered if it really makes a difference? Is short-term missions really worth it? Delmi thinks so. Delmi attended our schools as a child. She remembers receiving some of those hugs! We shared her story in our Fall Newsletter, and it made me cry. I thought you might want to hear Teacher Delmi share her story in her own words – of a childhood with no hugs, and of how God used her teachers, her sponsors, and teams who visited to…

Guatemalan children receiving hugs from members of a missions team

Marco Quit School This Year

Marco quit school this year. It’s not that the 12-year-old didn’t like school. In fact, he’d been doing reasonably well in his sixth grade class. But Marco couldn’t concentrate. His mom was sick and he was worried. She was having trouble doing the washing she takes in and collecting firewood – their only income, since his father had abandoned them last year. So Marco came up with a solution. He went to the principal to tell him he wasn’t going to continue studying. He wanted to help his mother work to help her earn a little money. Yes, in Guatemala,…

Thank You Sponsors!

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for celebrating sponsorship with us last month! 15 children and 19 classes found their sponsors – that’s even MORE than a sponsor a day for the month of May! And there’s been another 7 sponsorships in the first few days of June! Our Vida principals want to say thank you and let you know just how much your sponsorship means to them and their students! Principal Evelin even shared her thanks in English: https://youtu.be/DMaRN-2XF10 Here’s thanks from a few of the others: “We want to say thank you very much for thinking of our…

Children in a Vida classroom raising their hands

Praying for Children in Guatemala

Have you ever wondered what to pray for children in Guatemala? Maybe especially for your sponsor child or the children in the class you support? I came across a prayer, based on the words from the Psalms and Proverbs, and I knew I wanted to share it with you! The words struck me as being exactly what we need to be praying for kids in Guatemala. Whether you pray it all at once, or whether you pray a verse a day, I hope you’ll find it as helpful as I did: Lord, I pray that children in Guatemala will love…

Children praying during a Vida devotional

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