Guatemala Medical Mission Trip October 2026

Join our partner's, M4 Institute, medical mission team to bring healthcare and hope to remote, rural, and underserved communities in the western highlands of Guatemala. Over one week, M4 Institute medical teams run multiple clinics, treating hundreds of patients with virtually no access to medical care. What does the typical patient look like? From newborns to the elderly, people eager to see a doctor flock to the clinics with complaints of headaches, gastritis, skin disorders, diarrhea, diabetes, infections, and nutritional issues, among others. These conditions are treatable only because someone who cares has come to their village. Your skills and passions will make a positive impact in the lives of so many whose needs will go unmet unless someone like you answers the call. All skill levels are welcome – your presence makes a difference.

Why This Trip Matters

Our patients range from newborns to the elderly—men, women, and children who walk long distances for the chance to see a doctor. They come with treatable conditions such as:

• Headaches and chronic pain
• Gastritis and digestive issues
• Skin disorders and infections
• Diarrhea and nutritional deficiencies
• Diabetes and other chronic illnesses

These are conditions that can be treated—only because someone cared enough to come. Without visiting teams, these needs often go unmet.

Who Can Go?

You don’t need to be a medical professional to make a difference.
All skill levels are welcome. Whether you serve medically, administratively, logistically, or simply through presence and compassion, your skills and passions will be used to bring healing and hope.

This is an opportunity to step into God’s work—meeting physical needs while reflecting Christ’s love to those who are often forgotten.

Trip Cost: ~$2,100
Airfare:  $900-1,200 
In-country cost, $950, which covers:

• Ground transportation
• Lodging
• Meals
• Medical and evacuation insurance

Deposit $300 Due June 28, 2026
Final Payment Due September 27, 2026

Why We Go

At Grace Point, we believe missions is about more than projects, it’s about holistic discipleship. The gospel restores broken relationships with God, self, others, and creation. We go to serve, to learn, and to partner with the local church as the primary means of God’s mission in the world.

About the area and our partners:

Beneath the beauty of Guatemala’s land and people, malnutrition, which has been called the silent killer, robs children of the opportunity to experience the healthy, full lives God intended for them.

In the Western Highlands of Guatemala, 67% of children under the age of 5 are chronically malnourished.  Malnutrition stunts cognitive and physiological growth in the first 1000 days of life, and the stunting is irreversible.

M4 Institute has been working with the Maya in the Western Highlands of Guatemala since 2011.  Their access to impoverished remote highland communities is provided through a partnership with the Guatemalan Ministry of Agriculture (MAGA) and local municipalities.  Their partnerships provides opportunities to serve in: 

• Food production
  • constructing micro greenhouses which grow over 6000 vegetables (teams can build four greenhouses in one week)
  • Rabbit husbandry
• Nutrition training and cooking demonstrations
• Hygiene and sanitation instruction
• Small business development and best practices
• Medical clinics
  • Physicians, PAs, NPs, Nurses, Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapisits. Audiologists, Dentists, medical students, etc.
• Church training