These are a few photos from my recent trip to Guatemala with Catholic Healthcare West. I hope the photos will help you see, feel and understand some of the many emotions that we felt while we were there. Thank you to our leaders for their incredible planning, and to every member of the team that made this trip the incredible journey that it was. To read more about the trip and some of our experiences, go to the mission blog at: http://missionsblog.chwHEALTH.org/

In the visibility of his sufferings and distress
the poor person is what each human being is
in the privacy of his or her own lot in life…

The sins of the world can be read in the faces of the poor.
The poor have their independence restricted,
they must ask for things, they must wait, and above all
they must suffer inconveniences.

-- Pope John Paul II