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Newsletter, Winter (December, 2003) Page 1;
Page 2,
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PUEBLOS HERMANOS
Presbyterian Border Ministry
Vol. X, No. 1, 940 Hilltop Dr., Chula Vista, CA 91911 - Tel & Fax:
619-429-8851, www.PueblosHermanos.com Winter, 2003
A collaboration of the Presbyterian Church
(U.S.A.) and the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico promoting church and
community development, mission education and bi-national relations in
Tijuana, Baja California, and the USA
We’re on the Web! More information and updates at
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Sharing the
Gospel and Growing Churches
Evangelistic Event a Huge Success!
The Nueva Vida congregation, along with a six-person mission team from Lake
Grove Presbyterian Church of Lake Oswego, Oregon, hosted a fantastic
evangelistic campaign the weekend of October 18, in which 12 adults and
youth and 8 children accepted Christ as their Lord and Savior. It
was a breakthrough in reaching adults in the neighborhood (20 new adults
came to the event) and the congregation’s participation (more than 20 church
members worked at different tasks to make the event a success).
Home Bible Studies Reach New People
Just a year ago, Pastor Enrique started a series of home Bible studies. Four
people volunteered their homes for meetings. More than thirty people have
come to know Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior as a result of
attending one of these meetings. Several have started coming to church.
Continued, and more on Churches, on page 4 .
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On the border, most people join a
Presbyterian church because their lives have changed accepting Jesus Christ
as Lord and Savior. |
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The last two years more than 300 children received a
nutritious breakfast each morning in the three schools where our Nurse
Martha works, involving more than 20 volunteers she has trained.
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The Gospel Lives in Service
Needy Kids Get School Breakfast
Where there is no one like Pueblos Hermanos Nurse
Martha Gonzalez to make it happen, the Mexican government’s offer of low
cost breakfasts to needy children remains only a promise. Thanks to Martha’s
organizing, supervising, persuading, interfacing and financial accounting
for both families and the DIF (Mexican family services), children of La
Planicie and Altiplano neighborhoods of Tijuana have enjoyed breakfast at
school for $1.20 a week. Basic to this work is not so much our program’s
expertise, but the trust Martha has earned in the community as an honest
broker who represents an entity who identifies with the interests of the
people.
Continued and more on service, on
page 2 . . .
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Living Out the
Gospel Together
Mission Teams Partner Across the Border
In 2002 & 2003 there were 51 groups bringing 94 teams for a total of
1,216 persons coming to Mexico, but also two teams including 21 Mexican
Presbyterians who did mission in the U.S.
These wonderful people spent time sharing in and enhancing the life and
ministry of the churches of Tijuana, Mexicali, Tecate and Ensenada as well
as the Casa de Esperanza Orphanage. They built houses, bathrooms, fellowship
halls, school rooms, a handicap ramp, remodeled substandard housing. They
put on Vacation Bible Schools, did youth recreation outreach, and
evangelistic campaigns. They worshiped, fellowshipped, prayed, played and
ate with their Mexican brothers and sisters. They built ties of friendship
across barriers of language, class, race and culture, enhancing
understandings of who we all are as God’s children and what God calls us to
be and do.
Continued, and more on Mission Teams on page
3 . . . |
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Teams do some construction work contributing
physically to the churches, but the emphasis of mission teams is on learning
to be the church together with our Mexican brothers and sisters.
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