Missionary Tim & FamilyI was with a mission team in Antigua last week, a marimba band was playing so I took this clip to share with you. After so many years here, I've fallen in love with the traditional Guatemalan music.
Some beautiful, traditional, marimba music in Antigua, GautemalaMissionary Tim & Family2016-03-18 | I was with a mission team in Antigua last week, a marimba band was playing so I took this clip to share with you. After so many years here, I've fallen in love with the traditional Guatemalan music.2020 Ministry Review.Missionary Tim & Family2020-12-10 | Highlights of what has accomplished in our ministry in Guatemala in 2020. Thanks to each and every one of you who helped to make all this possible. www.missionarytim.comEveryone has something to give and can do something to help.Missionary Tim & Family2020-06-27 | Youth in our ministry are serving others in the Covid-19 crisis in Guatemala. Cadanino.2020 Mission Trip Overview.Missionary Tim & Family2020-01-23 | Just what does it look like to go on a mission trip to Guatemala and serve alongside timothy & Sharie Martiny at the Cadaniño Ministry.Sponsor a child, cadanino, Guatemala!Missionary Tim & Family2019-10-10 | Sponsor a child, change a community, change the world.Christmas Ornament 2019Missionary Tim & Family2019-10-05 | Christmas ornaments made by students in our workshop at an orphanage in Guatemala. Ornaments are sold and all profits go to the students who make them. Give them a hand out not a hand up. www.missionarytim.com/storeCadaniño student shares what he has learned.Missionary Tim & Family2019-08-30 | Hear from one of the Cadaniño students in our community center on what he has learned and how being in our program has helped change his life. Sponsor a student today, change a life for eternity. www.cadanino.net/sponsorHelp equip and launch our new community center in Guatemala.Missionary Tim & Family2019-02-19 | Guatemala is a country where 2 million children in Guatemala do not attend school.
Of those that do, only %40 complete their secondary education, 9th-12th grades.
Many students struggle in school and need assistance.
Studies show that after school programs improve academic performance.
By providing services to vulnerable children and families, in their communities, we bring valuable help where it is most needed.
We have the oppourtinty to implement our model at a second community center in the town of San Jose Pinula.
Over the past years we have refined a model that has an incredible impact in the lives of the most vulnerable children and families in Guatemala.
Students come in for three hours a day three times a week for an hour of Bible classes, and hour of computer classes and an hour of help with homework.
By focusing on the three pillars of Spiritual Formation, Educational Reinforcement and Family Strengthening, we can have a transformation impact that can help to break the cycle of poverty into which these children are born by giving them the tools they need to excel in developing the gifts and talents that God has given them.
We have a program backed by proven results in which kids who were failing in math are now getting first place in their class, students who had never touched a computer are learning web development, coding, Java and Wordpress, valuable skills to help them break the cycle of poverty into which so many of them are born. Best of all, children and parents who didn’t know about God are having regular Bible classes, memorizing scripture, learning to worship him, coming to an understanding of who he is as their father and how he wants them to live.
We now have a wonderful opportunity to implement this program at a second location and need your help to make it possible.
We currently have 77 children enrolled in the program and we held a soft launch on February 4th. However we need to properly equip the facility in order to be effective in running our program.
Wood for Desks and Shelves, Chairs and Curtains: $475
Signs, Uniforms, Teaching Materials:$390
Total: $2,000
Please help us change these kids lives and break the cycle of poverty into which they are born.
Tim and Sharie MartinyCada Niño 2018Missionary Tim & Family2018-10-02 | Ministry serving the orphaned,vulnerable and disabled in Guatemala.Martiny Family Missionaries 2018 Mid Year ReportMissionary Tim & Family2018-06-26 | 2018 Mid-Year Report. This has been a busy year for us so far! Our ministry has grown substantially, not just in the numbers of those we serve, but in depth and scope. Looking back on the 15 years we have been here, it’s amazing to see how so many things played into laying the foundation for where we are at today. Watch this short video to see all that God has done.Equip Our New Community CenterMissionary Tim & Family2018-01-22 | Help us equip our community center serving children in the slums of Guatemala City. We have been running a community center for several years in Colonia Santa Fe, one of the "red zones" of Guatemala City. 125 children come in the afternoons for Bible classes and computer classes. They learn typing, office applications, email and internet skills, programming and webs design. We have rented a bigger facility and are expanding our program form 1 1/2 hours to 3 hours. By providing the children with a safe place to learn, we keeping them safe from the drugs, gangs and violence they are surrounded by and learning valuable life skills that will enable them to break the cycle of poverty. We need funds to properly equip the facility so we can start classes on the 25th of January. We need $2,000 to get it ready for classes by the 25th of January. Funds will be used for: Paint=$350 Desks and shelves for computer classroom=$470 Electrical Wiring for computer classroom=$350 Lighting fixtures and wiring=$200 Bookshelves for library=$150 Cement work and masonry=$250 Fixing the roof=$135 Signs=$95
For more information you can contact Timothy Martiny at tim@cadanino.net, www.cadanino.net, www.missionarytim.com 504-322-3334Dar una Mano Canal 23Missionary Tim & Family2017-12-28 | The Cadanino community center was featured on TN23 a Guatemalan TV station.Martiny family missionaries 2017 ministry report.Missionary Tim & Family2017-12-15 | A report from the Martiny family missionaries mission work in Guatemala in 2017 serving the orphaned, vulnerable and disabled.2017 Christmas Ornaments made by students in our workshop at the orphanage.Missionary Tim & Family2017-10-17 | These Christmas ornaments were made by students in our woodworking shop at the orphanage Fundaninos. They worked of their own free will, invested their own money, worked hard to learn the equipment and %100 of the profits go to them. Visit our online store to buy one and help them learn that hard work pays. www.missionarytim.com/store By Timothy MartinyMartiny Family Misisonaries, 2017 mid year highlightsMissionary Tim & Family2017-06-26 | A slideshow of the highlights in our ministry in the first part of this 2017.Empowering women thorough woodworkingMissionary Tim & Family2017-05-23 | So, yes it’s about making pens, but it’s about so much more than just making pens. It’s about empowering girls who live in a society often dominated by machismo. It’s about showing them what they are capable of. It’s about helping them realize their full potential. It’s about showing them that they have value, not just as a wife or mother but as smart intelligent human beings who can think, dream, design, produce and create value. It’s a step in helping them understand that they are the daughters of God.Students from the orphanage learning to serve.Missionary Tim & Family2017-04-04 | The high school students from the orphanage Fundaninos visited the Skills for Life Community Center in Colonia Santa Fe to hold a VBS for the children who are enrolled in afternoon classes.Day for Guatemala 2017, IMAGINE...Missionary Tim & Family2017-03-10 | Imagine a Church that reads the Bible, prays, and finally, more than anything, imagine a church that serves! Timothy and Sharie Martiny, working with members from our Guatemalan church, to serve the children in our community center in the slums of Colonia Santa Fe.Teaching engineering to orphansMissionary Tim & Family2017-02-16 | Students in our pre-engineering class at the orphanage fundaninos, learning to design and cut projects on a shop both Cnc router.Christmas 2016 ShowsMissionary Tim & Family2017-01-12 | Shows and songs at retirement homes in New Orleans, December 2016.2016 Christmas Ornaments made in our workshop at the orphanage FundaninosMissionary Tim & Family2016-09-27 | Check out the work done by the students in our Skills for Life vocational training program. See the production process of the Christmas Ornaments they designed and are selling. %100 of the profits go to them, the only cost is materials, and they deposit into their personal savings account so they can build themselves a better future.Woodworking & Engineering ClassesMissionary Tim & Family2016-09-27 | Here is an overview of the work being done in our Skills for Life vocational training that teach woodworking and engineering. The classes benefit the children living at the orphanage Fundaninos.
Funding for expanding this program by purchasing needed equipment and supplies in 2016 was provided by the World Orphan Fund.Outreach with Mosaic mission team and teenagers from FundaninosMissionary Tim & Family2016-06-17 | We visited a hogar de ancianos in San Jose Pinula to share love food, snacks cookies and art with the people there.Cooking classes at FundaninosMissionary Tim & Family2016-06-11 | Sharie martiny teaching cooking classes to the children at the orphanage FundaninosCutting boards on cncMissionary Tim & Family2016-05-26 | Cutting board made by chupete in the workshop today, it's his own personal design, soon to be for sale, he but 3 of them todayWoodworking in our carpentry workshop.Missionary Tim & Family2016-05-12 | A short video I put together of our classes, making pens and bracelets and on a lathe and CNC work on the Shopbot desktop.Understanding why orphan care should be important to Christians.Missionary Tim & Family2016-05-06 | ...Day 3, la mission summer camp, fundaninosMissionary Tim & Family2016-04-30 | Games, activities and classes for the kids from fundaninos at thr la mission summer camp run by Timothy martiny and sharie martinyDay 2, La mission summer camp, fundaninosMissionary Tim & Family2016-04-26 | Worship, classes, games and crafts from the morning of day 2. Timothy Martiny, Sharie MartinyTimothy Martiny carpentry classes at FundaninosMissionary Tim & Family2016-03-01 | Some of the amazing work done by students in the workshop at fundaninos this weekMartiny 2015 year end reviewMissionary Tim & Family2016-02-01 | A year end update and overview of our mission work in Guatemala.Worship today at our church in Guatmala, Casa de LMissionary Tim & Family2016-01-31 | Worship at the church we loveskills for life woodworking academyMissionary Tim & Family2016-01-30 | Boys in the workshop making beautiful pens on a latheCasa de libertadMissionary Tim & Family2015-10-11 | Celebrating the 8th year anniversaryLearning scripture at vbsMissionary Tim & Family2015-10-08 | Precious moments school and orphanageLearning scripture during VBSMissionary Tim & Family2015-10-08 | ...Raquel teaching VBSMissionary Tim & Family2015-10-08 | Vacation Bible school at the precious moments school and orphanageOur kids performing a song in ChurchMissionary Tim & Family2015-10-05 | They did such a wonderful job, I'm so proud of them.Games after Bible study with girls from FundaninosMissionary Tim & Family2015-10-05 | Playing "whack the fruit" with the girls form the orhange fundaninos and volunteers from a mission team. We had a blast!VBS at Precious Moments School and Orphanage 8/2015Missionary Tim & Family2015-10-05 | Great VBS at the Precious Moments School & Orphanage. I was so proud of this girl for getting up and reading verses in front of her classmates.