Day Nine

A team from our group went to the former dumps of Tijuana to feed people breakfast early this morning. They also had a tour of the surrounding area and heard about the local church's plan to build a community centre and rehab facility. It is encouraging to see how God is moving in different parts of the area through different ministries.

Some of us spent the morning at Casa de Luz, holding babies, doing crafts, building lego towers and playing soccer. The children of Casa de Luz did something special for our entire team. Over the past few months the children have been doing extra jobs to raise money so that they could buy the Canadian team a gift while we are here. They did not ask their parents for any money, but instead, worked and saved the money and gave it to Marta, their amazing teacher who collected it for them. Today they presented each of us with a chocolate bar that was decorated and labelled with each of our names. It was so special to receive the gifts from these children who wanted to bless us and thank us for what they have received at Casa de Luz this year.

The construction crew worked on the building this morning and we are happy to report that we are very close to lockup stage, which was our goal for this team.

This afternoon we broke into groups and teamed up with translators from La Hermosa church and headed into different areas of the city to deliver gift and food hampers to families in need. Some of the situations that we saw were dire and a lot of the people were hungry. We were able to pray for each family - for healing, for provision, for health and for the love of Jesus to permeate each household and each life. We also invited them to our city-wide outreach event tomorrow.

Please pray for the outreach event tomorrow! We have invited a lot of people from the community. There is going to be a barbecue, face-painting and activities for children, bouncy houses, a mechanical bull and a Mexico verses Canada soccer game and hockey game. There will also be live music by one of the bands of La Hermosa Church and Pastor Daniel is going to speak about the love of Jesus! Last year we saw many people give their lives to Jesus and get into community at La Hermosa Church and we pray for an increase of that this year!

Thanks for praying with us! Good night from Primo Tapia!