What We Do

Porch de Salomon is a response to several families and their friends being called into lives of love and service in Panajachel, Guatemala. We strive to bring the first-century church’s spirit of adventure, risk, service, and even fun to those who live in a 21st-century world. Solomon’s Porch was an ancient, open place where people seeking transformation gathered to explore Jesus of Nazareth’s radical message of love and redemption.

Porch de Salomon is a unique and progressive non-profit which, since 2005, has loved, served, and encouraged “the lost, the least and the last” of Guatemala’s Lake Atitlan basin, by:

  • Hosting short-term service teams: indigenous home construction (136 quality family houses built!), community building construction, medical/dental/hearing aid/eyeglass clinics (over 28,000 patients seen), and relationship building.
  • Providing high-impact, year-round, humanitarian relief to indigenous people: food, clean water systems, environmentally-friendly woodstoves, malnourished infant relief, medicine, school scholarships, substance abuse recovery, counseling, sustainable micro-businesses, and more.
  • Operating Café Hotel California and the Hotel California.
  • Live music outreach and creative partnering in Panajachel’s hippie and expatriate communities.
  • Encouraging high-impact growth in individuals and groups through their involvement in Porch’s work in Guatemala.

If you are looking for an experience or relationship that will challenge you, help start or stretch your faith, and draw you into something bigger than yourself, we welcome you to be a part of what God is doing through Porch de Salomon.