From August 21-26, 1998, an eleven member team traveled to Guatemala for Peace Officers For Christ International. The goal was to see if the door was open to train officers and present the Gospel as previous teams had been able to do in Caracas, Venezuela. The First Lady of Guatemala had specifically invited POFCI to provide training to academy cadets and to explain that they could be officers and Christians! The Lord was obviously working mightily within the Guatemalan government due to years of peayer and faithful service of missionaries who had gone before us. The original invitation came through the efforts of Reed Olson, who is the Latin American Outreach Director for Focus on the Family. Focus on the Family graciously provided 2500 Spanish Bibles for our first outreach into Guatemala.

The results of this first team effort were truly historic and blessed by the Lord. A small POFCI team trained more than 1400 police officers in just five days. During that time they witnessed approximately 800 officers make decisions for Jesus Christ in the middle of the National Police Academy!