A Week in Baja California

A large group from the College Church has been going to Ensenada, Mexico for years. Decades, actually. I'm not sure when the first group went or when. I know that our folks worked with the City of Children in many of those early trips. Our people built, painted, cooked, and did all sorts of various jobs to help that work.

City of Children grew increasingly crowded as church groups from across the US showed up to serve and learn. In the process of looking for new ways to serve, some of our folks came across YUGO ministries. They have outreach centers in several communities including Ensenada. Their primary mission is to work with local evangelical churches & pastors to strengthen their ministries. One of their primary tools is house-building.

For 8 or 9 years, the College Church has sent teams to build houses for families. The houses are incredibly modest by our standards. The YUGO folks at the Ensenada Outreach Center have this down to a science. They assign a local foreman to each team. Each house is built over a 4-day period. A 20'x16' house is their most common model. We have built as many as 3 houses in one year.

This year, we took 50 people -- many of them teens -- to learn about service and about the mission of God by building houses. We divided into two teams. Each team built a single house. Jericho worked with the high school group. Julie, Jacob & I worked on a second house, this one for the Guendolay Moralez family. You can see a glimpse of the family in the youtube video below. Imagine a family of 6 in a 320 sq ft house! They couldn't have been more thrilled because it was such an upgrade over their previous living conditions. You can see pics of our work on EOC-YUGO facebook page.


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