Company member Jennifer Thalman Kepler returned from a year in Guatemala in 2004 and LFL started work piloting and creating the Faith Stories Project as an international outreach program to continue to explore the common themes of women’s experiences from two very different cultures: rural Guatemala and urban America. 4 LFL artists traveled to Guatemala for the first time in the summer of 2005 to kick off this project. This project which has since involved annual visits to Guatemala (except during the Covid-19 Pandemic). The initial objective of the project was to empower women in Guatemala and the U.S. by artistically exploring the complexities of how faith affects their lives – asking the question “How does my faith free me, and in what ways do the structures of my faith community oppress me?” Since then, that objective has remained, but the project has grown to also explore and address a myriad of other issues affecting women in Guatemala, with the Guatemalan sisters organizing themselves as Colectivo Teatral Historias de Fe (CTHF) and taking real ownership of the project and its direction. The CTHF, with support and training from LFL, takes their original issue-based plays and workshops to their communities, so that they may explore those issues together, using theatre as a tool for education, community-building and social change.