After 20 years of working at Casa Bernabé, an orphanage in Guatemala, teaching, discipling and preparing children for ministry outreach, Vivian has stepped out to be full time director of Music Camp Guatemala as their programs are expanding.
MUSIC CAMP GUATEMALA 
A not for profit ministry in Guatemala aimed at reaching at-risk youth with special attention to orphanages with the purpose of discipleship training as well as musical training and performing arts training.
McG (Music Camp Guatemala) has 2 main programs. The first has been going strong since 2012 and is a one-week live-in summer band camp/ discipleship training camp. The other is an after school program called SOFAMA (School of Fine Arts and Musical Arts). While using music and the performing arts as the vehicle to grab the interest of kids from ages 12-20, we also spend 1/3 of our class time doing discipleship training. Our goal is to make an impact on Eternity through music and the arts!
Besides being the director of Music Camp Guatemala she is also one of the teachers and teacher trainer. There are many other projects that she organizes besides summer camp and SOFAMA. They include the International Staff concert tour in December, The BANDAS UNIDAS concert tours in Guatemala in the spring and the fall, The CORNO-QUETZAL CONNECTION Concert series, and other various music making, discipleship training activities. Teacher training for both the summer camp and the SOFAMA classes is another big part of her outreach to impact eternity through music. As she trains the teachers to be disciple-makers, they in turn teach the students how to be good disciples. Her calling is both to the students participating in McG as well as to the Spiritual & Musical development of the staff. 
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Home Church: Bethel Church of Cleveland Heights, OH
MORE DETAILS ABOUT MUSIC CAMP GUATEMALA AND VIVIAN:
One of the ways we raise the funds to support these 2 programs is by taking select members of the McG staff on tour to the USA. This is very helpful to them as musicians as well as teachers; giving them a chance to experience another culture, and perform for a more discerning audience. They get to make connections representing McG by telling stories/testimonies of what they have seen God doing as he transforms the lives of the students through discipleship and musical training. This is our chance to share what God has been doing in Guatemala to bring glory and fame to His name, and also to see if He might touch hearts to become regular monthly supporters or one time donors. It gives the staff members a chance to put into daily practice what it means to be a disciple and a missionary. It is a spiritually stretching experience for everyone involved.
The summer music/discipleship camp has historically been geared toward band but sometimes includes piano, voice, classical guitar, Guatemalan marimba, hand bells, and worship band instruments. This is a week-long intensive program to immerse in music in a Christian environment where we do all for the glory of God. The staff for the camp is made up 1/3 N. Americans who come as a short term missions trip and the other 2/3 are Guatemalan students and musicians volunteering their time and talents.
The staff for both of these programs are mainly Guatemalans who have or are just finishing the equivalent of High school and /or are studying music in the university. Some already have jobs teaching music in public schools. These teachers who volunteer their time during their mid-year break, cannot give up afternoon teaching jobs to teach at SoFaMa for free, so we are paying the SoFaMa teachers. The funds for that come from the concert tours that we do in the winter and other fund raising projects we do throughout the year.
SOFAMA (School Of Fine Arts & Musical Arts) works with various orphanages and kids at risk teaching music and discipleship training. It is an almost year round, after school music and discipleship training program that will be offered in satellite locations so no orphanage should have to drive more than 1/2 hour to attend.
Both of these main programs have the same goal and use many of the same techniques and classes to engage the kids; the difference is that one is ongoing, giving a longer term sense to what it means to be a disciple of Jesus and the other is intensive in a 24/7 camp situation isolated from other distractions so that all can better hear God’s invitation to a deeper intimacy with Him. We do a lot of team building activities, as well as musical theory building blocks in addition to the goal of performance and sharing what we have learned. For the summer camp, the last morning of camp we have a big concert. For Sofama we have a concert series in November.
Modeling and mentoring, testimonies and worship are all components of how we will do discipleship training. Evangelism is part of the discipleship training. For some, growing up in Christian environments they have heard the gospel but never made a decision, and for these kids the discipleship training process brings them to the point of decision. For others who have never heard the gospel, they will not only hear, but see it acted out in the staff and other students. Our goal is to impact eternity through music, so that the participants will have deep roots of faith and become instruments in God’s hands for His will to be done on earth and bring glory to His name!
MISSION: to reach the youth of Guatemala with the gospel of Jesus Christ and to train them to be passionate disciples of Jesus using music and arts training that would not just help them to develop their God-given talents but to also equip them with Christian values and life skills.
VISION: Establish an organization that uses music and discipleship training, coupled together, to reach the at-risk-youth and orphan population of Guatemala in order to impact eternity through music and the fine arts.
HISTORY: Vivian Douglas first became interested in missions through attending the Urbana Missions Conference in 1990. After a series of unfruitful attempts to go into missions, she put it on the back burner. Then in January 1995, God spoke to Vivian very clearly that He was going to do something new in her life. She started job hunting and before she knew, God had directed her efforts into a missions organization hunt. After a short-term mission trip to Russia with a choir and orchestra, she was totally convinced that God wanted her to go into missions. She felt compelled and her church confirmed that she was indeed called to GO! She spent time in prayer and fasting; calling prayer meetings for her friends to come and pray with her and for her for Gods direction.
With a Bachelors and Masters degrees in Music Performance and an unfinished Music Education degree in addition to many hours of self directed reading and many certifications in early education, Vivian is prepared to teach music to all grade levels, and has experience in teaching not just music but academics and performing arts as well. What she thought was her worst nightmare (being a band director) has turned out to be one of her greatest joys. Amazing how God redeems even what we deem as undesirable to use for HIS glory! She continues to use the talent God gave her in music to perform whenever she gets the chance.
In 1995, Vivian joined Mercy Ships (at that time part of Youth With A Mission – YWAM) to teach in their International Christian School and to work on the evangelism team as well as the worship team. In 1997, she attended a YWAM Discipleship Training School in Belize, which is an intense six-month missions-prep program of classroom and practical training. Then she attended a Spanish language school in Guatemala. After two years in missions, she felt released enough that she sold all of her household possessions, which included a large collection of music which was waiting for her to transcribe into horn duets or quartets.
In 1998, Vivian joined the staff at Casa Bernabé. At first, she was the teacher for the class that was made up of pre-kindergarten through first-grade. The following year, she was also given the responsibility of teaching art and music, as well as being the librarian and supervisor over playtime with toys. The year 2000 brought a special education program called PACE (Processing And Cognitive Enhancement) to her attention, and she was able to get the training and apply it at the orphanage training teachers as well as working with students. She continued with Creative Arts classes and also added in teaching music classes in the school for all grades once per week. In 2000 she also began a band program with all the instruments being donated and each having its own little miracle story behind it. Vivian spent the year 2003 in the USA on furlough, splitting her time between Ohio and Texas.
In 2004, Vivian’s role at the orphanage became more defined to music and arts training as she began a Performing Arts Group (PAG) to train kids in such things as drama, puppets, dance, clowning, music, stilt walking, juggling and others. Discipleship is the main goal of the PAG, with outreach excursions being an end product. Her other main role besides teaching PAG, was as the band coordinator, supervising up to 3 other teachers and herself teaching up to 3 bands. These responsibilities continued through 2017.
After taking kids from the orphanage to the USA on concert tours and to attend band camps there, Vivian was impressed with the impact of the camps on the kids’ spiritual lives and wanted to be able to give each of her students that opportunity. So along with 2 friends she began a Music Camp in Guatemala. 2012 Music Camp Guatemala (McG) held its first one-week summer camp with 3 schools participating and 30 students with 1/2 of the students from the Casa Bernabé band. Each year McG expands or develops more the original vision for doing discipleship training in the context of musical training. Some years, besides the band that has included piano, voice, classical guitar, marimba, bell choir, choir, and most recently worship band instruments/ technique. Part of the original plan was to also do after school discipleship/ music training.
2014 God began to reveal a plan to put to better use all the resources that were being donated to the band program, and bit by bit a vision took shape for Vivian to step out of Casa Bernabé and work full time with McG to get SOFAMA (School Of Fine Arts & Musical Arts) up and running with the hope that all the Casa Bernabé band kids would continue their musical training now through SOFAMA and many other orphanage kids could receive band and arts classes as well. 2016-2017 Vivian experimented with pilot programs at Casa Bernabé and by Oct. 2017, Vivian had closed down the band program after the last concert which was for the Graduation of the Casa Bernabé School. SOFAMA started classes in March of 2018 with the first satellite location being in Villa Nueva. In 2019 a second session will begin at the same site offering classes both to beginners as well as intermediate students.
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