Advancing the Kingdom of God through new life in Christ.
New Life Advance International (NLAI) is an interdenominational mission organization dedicated to taking the good news of Jesus Christ to the nations through holistic initiatives. We exist to rescue children, make disciples, and transform families and communities; all for the glory of God.
New Life Children’s Home
New Life Children’s Home (NLCH) in Villa Nueva, Guatemala is a refuge and safe haven for orphaned, abandoned, and abused children. Our passion and purpose are the nourishment and healing of mind, body and soul for children in crisis. We provide love, safety, shelter, food, medical care, education, recreation, discipleship and a family in which to belong.
New Life Christian School
New Life Christian School was founded in 1990. It is an integral part of NLCH’s endeavor to “train up a child in the way he should go,” not only for the children who live at NLCH, but also for those living in the surrounding community. New Life Christian School currently enrolls children in grades Pre-K through 12th grade, with over 600 students!
Missionaries
New Life Advance International (NLAI) has many missionaries behind the work of each of our ministries who share our passion and purpose for the nourishment and healing of mind, body and soul for children in crisis. Without them NLAI could not provide the love, safety, shelter, food, medical care, education, recreation, discipleship and a family in which to belong.
If you desire to support one of our missionaries, please use the view the Missionaries page.
Little Pasos Learning Center
Little Pasos Learning Center, lead by Tara Goodloe Fuentes with the help of her husband William, is a pre-primary school in Villa Nueva that provides a Christian bilingual education to kids ages 4-6. The goal of Little Pasos is to produce students who are bilingual and biliterate. A bilingual education gives students a strong base for the English language in the hopes of better job and educational opportunities in their futures. The school launched in January of 2024 with its first ten students!
Medical & Dental Clinic
Our Medical and Dental Clinic has two part-time doctors, two part-time dentists, a small laboratory, and nurse who runs the pharmacy and shares the love of Jesus with all who enter.
We started what we thought would be a temporary clinic of six weeks to address the physical needs we were seeing: diarrhea, fungus, respiratory problems, etc. Fifty to sixty people would line up to see the doctor. We soon added a small budget-priced pharmacy and dentist to the mix. God used many people over the course of several years to get our clinic to what it is today: a pleasant oasis of care.
NLAI was founded as New Life League Inc. in 1954 by Drs. Fred and Clara Jarvis. They were soul winners who were passionate about reaching the lost. Their ministry began in China in 1946. After a communist takeover, the couple was forced to leave China, and they moved to Japan, where they worked for 24 years.
The Jarvises were innovative leaders who, over the course of their lives, oversaw the establishment of a number of new ministries in Asia, Latin America, Haiti and Papua New Guinea.
NLAI's current missionaries embrace the pioneering spirit and passion for the things of God that the Jarvises modeled. Following their example, NLAI missionaries are committed to proclaiming Christ among the nations — wherever He leads them to go.
