Tijuana Vision Trip
*Additional Vision Trip Resources below: PURPOSE: We invite you to walk the streets of Tijuana and Rosarito with one of our Vision Partners, Tijuana Christian Mission (TCM). The team will experience daily life in TCM’s orphanages, spend time in the women’s shelter, eat and share life with Tijuana’s homeless, engage in justice ministry within the sex trade industry, and interact and share the love of Christ with the community in the Tijuana dump. Jesus invites us to walk with Him, engaging the world around us through a passion for God and a compassion for people. WHERE: Tijuana, Mexico WHEN: March 9-14 (Application/Deposit Deadline: December 15) WHAT IS THE COST: The estimated cost of the trip is $600 (this is an approximate cost and trip cost may vary slightly depending on airline ticket prices.) Don't let finances keep you from applying or pursuing the trip opportunity. Financial assistance is available for vision trip participants who regularly attend Common Ground, and the request form can be accessed here. *Requests will not be evaluated or approved until one month prior to trip departure date. This financial assistance opportunity is intended to supplement trip participant's active engagement in sacrificial giving, fundraising efforts and faithful prayer for financial provision. The submission of this financial assistance request does not guarantee the receipt of funds and each request will go through a review process. For resources on fundraising for Common Ground Vision Trips, see below. TRIP LEADERS: Sarah Moore and Brad Harper REQUIREMENTS:
COUNTRY INFORMATION: The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst recession in over half a century. The nation had been making an impressive recovery until the global financial crisis hit in late 2008. Ongoing economic and social concerns include low real wages, underemployment for a large segment of the population, inequitable income distribution, and few advancement opportunities for the largely Amerindian population in the impoverished southern states. The elections held in 2000 marked the first time since the 1910 Mexican Revolution that an opposition candidate - Vicente FOX of the National Action Party (PAN) - defeated the party in government, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was succeeded in 2006 by another PAN candidate Felipe CALDERON. In January 2009, Mexico assumed a nonpermanent seat on the UN Security Council for the 2009-10 term. (source: CIA - The World Fact Book) HISTORY: Over the past two years we have had the privilege of being led to Tijuana Christian Mission, an orphanage and battered women's ministry based in Tijuana, Mexico. Through a series of visits to their other campus in Rosarito, the City of Refuge, we have been able to see God working through their ministry in an exceptional way. HOW DO I APPLY: Trip applications can be downloaded here. *For questions or additional information, email Vision Trip Resources
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