City wide Reformation event in Tijuana

We are joining a citywide event on The Reformation this Saturday, the 1st of November. This is the first ever. We are publishing a 12 page tabloid sized publication which will be distributed to 5,000 people. Please pray for this event. Here is a sample of the front page of the [...]

Adopting a Grandparent…..new volunteers get to serve.

We are expanding our group of volunteers and supporters by giving Tijuana working people and professionals an opportunity to adopt a grandparent from our elder groups. In a city with so much mobility, where more than 80 or 90% of the population wasn’t born in Tijuana, there are many who have their grandparents back in [...]

Day Care Metal Doors go up……

This is the lower level security doors going up this week.  It changes the look of everything. Whoooo-hooooo!
This is the new Lutheran Community Center/Day Care going up that will be a learning center, community day care, and after school center in the neighborhood of 3 de octubre.
Next we tackle the roof!  Please keep this project [...]

Proyecto JOEL at the open market with a new booth

Finally the Proyecto JOEL unveiled their new “booth”…….look at the cool graphics they used for the PJ (proyecto Joel) booth.  They have items of interest to youth, Christian literature of interest to youth and are selling the donated tshirts at $10 pesos ($1Us dlls)……It provides something useful to the community for almost nothing and more [...]

Proyecto JOEL – building for tomorrow

I love these photos of the young people working hard making adobe bricks for their youth center. Can’t you just see the joy of purpose, dedication and commitment?

Pray for Legna…..

Legna is under the weather. The climate changes (and lots of activity) have affected her asthma. Probably all the adobe brick making hasn’t helped either. Legna is leading her youth team to build a youth center out of adobe bricks which they are making themselves! Please pray for her health. [...]

Undie Sunday distribution

Among our elder groups were underwear distribution from the Undie Sunday effort in the PSWD. Our volunteer staff opened the packages so we could distribute 2 pairs of underwear , plus a t-shirt rolled up in a package with yarn. They were delighted. An upcoming distribution will be at a presentation to 38 single mothers [...]

New Volunteers for Elder Care

Our elder groups are growing with new volunteers. These chemists are administering diabetes and cholesterol tests free of charge to the elders. Here too is our volunteer farmacist who distributes donated medicine.

Note: How about these snazzy camera angles?  I think CPTLN staff member Tere Montoya is experimenting with photography. Pretty cool!

New Computer Clinic at IELSFySG

The community compter clinic is being set up at our new lutheran mission: Iglesia Evangelica Luterana de la Sola Fe y Sola Gracia (Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Faith Alone and Grace Alone)

“Where is God?” – a new resource for people in Tijuana

This is a very popular booklet in uncertain times. When we gather with the elder groups or single mothers, everyone has been affected by the killings which have overtaken Tijuana. Last week there were 2 elderly who had family members killed. Often the victims are the very ones involved in the drug trade. However, in [...]