Missions- GYTTE

Missions - GYTTE

The "Give Ye Them To Eat" Program
offers Training for Transformation at the
"Tree of Life"
Training Center for Integrated Development
Tlancualpican, Puebla, Mexico

The Training Center is located 70 miles southwest of the city of Puebla, on a 40-acre hillside a short distance from the village of Tlancualpican. The Center provides a window into the world of development, showcasing the various services offered by the GYTTE program. An Experimental Farm is maintained to demonstrate and teach sustainable agricultural methods. The purpose of The Livestock Unit is to demonstrate environmentally sound livestock management practices and produce animals for distribution. The Learning Center provides space for classes, courses and workshops.

Each year hundreds of Mexican and international visitors come to learn about the program, technologies and development opportunities. Appropriate technology is an essential tool that is incorporated into every aspect of life at the Center from soil conservation efforts, sanitation and hydraulic pumping systems, to the construction methods used. Course participants are able to see how the development opportunities offered by GYTTE can assist people in their endeavor to find ways to transform lives and communities.

Muriel & Terry Henderson
UMC Missionaries at GYTTE

GYTTE Website: http://www.gytte.org/
2009 GYTTE Newsletter
2008 GYTTE Newsletter
2007 GYTTE Newsletter

The GYTTE staff and the Methodist Church of Mexico are grateful to those who volunteer to participate on Alternative Work-study And Reality Experience – AWARE - Teams that come to serve with the “Give Ye Them To Eat” program. Teams of ten to sixteen people come to serve for nine to ten days at the “Tree of Life” Training Center for integrated development.
Besides the various work projects at the Training Center and in the community, the team participates in daily devotions and study segments which are a vital part of the AWARE experience. The team members attend church services in the village of Tlancualpican and/or the city of Puebla. They visit a village project where they have the opportunity to see GYTTE trained community-based health workers involved in teaching villagers the basics for good health. Throughout their time in Mexico the team works, worships and lives beside their Mexican friends and colleagues thus participating in a truly cross-cultural experience. In January 2010, Mike Easterly from NUMC will be joining a team led by Tabernacle UMC from Fredericksburg. Virgina.