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?
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?
- Click “See Available Sponsor Children” to see Guatemalan students still waiting for a sponsor like you
- Personally select your sponsor child from all the students available for sponsorship
- 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
- 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
Sponsorship Month Resource Package
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
A Special Bond
“Every team member replied back individually that they felt sponsoring the class in Vida Nueva was the right decision! To me it felt like God was orchestrating it the whole way!” Rock Prairie Church decided to support a class after their first Impact Trip. In Guatemala, Brittany McCorkle had seen the impact of worshiping alongside the Vida children and visiting their homes. “My desire was to see the kids at our church grow in their awareness of God’s heart for people all around the world,” she says. “In that moment, I felt that God was telling me that we need…
“You See God’s Love Through Sponsors”
Have you ever wondered what Vida Teachers think of sponsors? Teacher Gustavo was once a sponsor child in our program and he now teaches at Vida Chijacorral as a junior high teacher. He’s featured in our Spring Newsletter: In the Grade 8 classroom, each student excitedly shouts out ideas. They have just received a letter from their class sponsor, and now it’s time to write back. There is a buzz as they compose the letter that will be transcribed into the Sponsorsoft system, translated, and then sent to their sponsor. And they will eagerly await a response. Sponsor letters are…
