Today, April 17th, a group of youth and leaders from the Youth Farm Bible Camp started a journey.  A journey to bring hope.  A journey to find hope.  A journey across North America to build a home for a family in Mexico.

The Escobar family is eagerly awaiting out arrival.  They live in a community called "Terrazas del Valle 2" in Tijuana, Mexico.  They own land and have one small house with a bad roof and poor floor.  The Mother, Blomdina (57) owns the small lot with Nobel (son, 33) and Griseydi (20) living with her.  A new house is needed so that Nobel and his future wife can move into the new home.  Nobel is the only one working and earns $70 per week as a janitor.

When we go to build houses in Tijuana, we partner with Amor Ministries.  They typically build a 11' x 22', two room home with a slab floor and stucco finished exterior.  Doors and windows are provided for every house.  An Amor house is a simple design, built according to the standards of the community so that a group without skilled labor or power tools can still complete the project.  Here is a picture from one of our earlier mission trips.

Pray for the group as we travel for the next three days.  We are already in Montana and will be arriving in Idaho later tonight.  Tomorrow we drive through Utah, and a corner of Arizona, arriving in Las Vegas for night.  On Saturday, we will arrive in San Diego and rendezvous at the Amor Ministries office before going into Mexico.

Sunday will be spent at a Mexican Church and spending some time on the ocean.  Monday we start working!!