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This is the weekly update about VFC's Mission to Mexico!

This is the weekly email update for the Mission to Mexico trip. This is our space to share updates, stories, pictures, prayer requests, and ways that you can support our team as we prepare for the trip.

We are taking a team down to Mexico to work with an amazing children's refuge called Misión México.
They have provided a home to over 50 kids who have all experienced abuse or neglect.

"A Father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in His holy dwelling.  God sets the lonely in families..."
~Psalm 68:5-6a  

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mission to mexico team!

From June 2-10th, we are taking a team of 12 people to serve at Misión México, a children's refuge in Tapachula (a tropical part of Mexico on the border of Guatemala).

Andrew Carrier is leading the trip, and team members include Lina Quitasol, Kirsten Odegaard, Josh and Kristy Wilbur, Kerry Weitzel, Adam Galotti, Jeremy and Amanda Almond, Stephanie Stenner, Amanda Sebring, and Lindsey Cooper. 

The role of our team is to serve the kids, volunteer staff, and Alan and Pam Skuse, the couple that runs Misión México. Some of the projects they have asked us to help with are gardening, painting, cement work, carpentry, tutoring, teaching the kids games and crafts, praying with and encouraging the kids in their relationship with Christ, and supporting the volunteers in their daily care for the kids. 

Please pray for us as we prepare for this adventure! Pray that we would have servant hearts, "being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of mind" and that we would "Do nothing out of selfish ambition, or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests, but each of you to the interests of others" (Philippians 2:1-4). 

If you would like to support us financially, please visit the link on the left sidebar. There are options for supporting individual team members, or contributing to the team's fund as a whole. Thank you!

sunday is beach day

Each Sunday, the kids pile into cars and head to the beach (about a 30 minute drive). They surf, play in the sand, and enjoy a day at the beach. 
the children

"Misión México provides a loving, secure home for children of all ages who have been abused, neglected, orphaned or abandoned, and mostly from backgrounds of extreme poverty. The number of children in their care changes constantly but on average they care for between 40 and 50 children on a permanent basis. Almost all of the children have suffered extreme poverty and abuse. Some have experienced unspeakable violence."

"Some children have been tied by their feet and hung upside-down and then beaten with poles or cables. Some have been burnt with cigarettes, with a two year old arriving with scars all over his little body from cigarettes and knives. His face is scarred terribly. By providing a home for two young girls, 12 and 13 years, we have been able to protect them from lives of prostitution."

(from http://lovelifehope.com/about.htm)

about street children

"There are many reasons why children are abandoned and left homeless, such as domestic violence & family breakup, as well as economic migration of the parents to the United States."

Common reasons a child is abandoned:
  • Divorce or separation of the parents
  • Family and domestic violence
  • Personal illness of parent(s) or carers
  • Alcohol and/or drug and solvent abuse by parents or the child
  • Neglect and abuse of the child leading to the child deciding to leave home
  • One or both parents in prison
  • Child unable to work and contribute to the family income. (children with a disability are more likely to be abandoned)
  • Parental lack of literacy skills and schooling
  • Poor social skills and life skills of the parents
  • Mental health, mental disability, and/or physical health problems in either the parents or the child.
  • Poverty or unemployment
  • Parents unable to pay rent
  • Emigration, economic migration of the parents to the US.
  • Single parents unable to combine work and childcare
(from http://www.mexico-child-link.org/homelessness-reasons.htm)
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