Michael and Heather Montgomery live in Chichicastenango, Guatemala, a small town northwest of Guatemala City. Michael is working to develop a written language for the local dialect of K’iche’ and will translate the Bible for the approximately 150,000 K’iche’-speaking people in that area. His wife Heather ministers to the children of their community through teaching English, the arts and other activities. They are in the process of building a children’s activity center with an adjacent house for their family.

How we know Michael:

Michael Montgomery earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He has lived in Puerto Rico and Peru, and now in Guatemala, and is fluent in Spanish. He was formerly a guest helper with Wycliffe Bible Translators providing technical support in Waxhaw, North Carolina and Lima, Peru. Michael is our board chair’s brother.