Meeting Them Where They Are
A film for Clubhouse Guatemala

The problem

Clubhouse Guatemala does deep, unglamorous work in the villages around Pacaya, serving kids and families in communities the rest of the world mostly overlooks, where many households live on less than fifty dollars a month. The ministry runs on a partnership model: local Guatemalan churches and families doing the work on the ground, with US churches coming alongside to support it.

That's a hard thing to convey from a distance. The people who fund and volunteer for this ministry are often thousands of miles away, and a wire transfer or a mission trip is abstract until you can see the actual families, the actual place, the actual work. Clubhouse needed a film that let supporters see it, and understand how the local partnership really works.

What we did

We traveled to Pacaya and filmed the ministry from the inside. We captured stories from locals, from the Clubhouse staff, and from the American volunteers serving alongside them, so the film showed every side of the partnership, not just outsiders arriving to help, but Guatemalan churches and families leading the work in their own communities.

The goal was to show the place and the people honestly, the need and the beauty both, so a supporter watching from the US could feel connected to something real instead of a general idea of "missions." It wasn't an easy shoot; one of our team came home with Zika. But that was nothing next to what the people there carry every day, and what we watched them build.

The result

A film that gives Clubhouse a way to show supporters exactly what their ministry looks like on the ground, and how the local-church partnership at the heart of it actually works, so the people who fuel it from a distance can see the families and communities they're part of.