This summer, KSBJ is inviting you to Go, Live, and Give by becoming a summer missionary.
So far this summer we have focused on registering people to go on a Mission trip to Baja, Mexico with Global Expeditions and encouraged others to sign up to be an online missionary with Global Media Outreach.
To wrap up our summer missionary experience we are asking YOU to help GIVE, by funding the construction of new homes for underprivileged families that we will be helping in Baja, Mexico.
Even though Baja is only a few miles from San Diego, it is worlds apart. You'll notice the landscape drastically change as you enter this world of scarcity and hardship. Often, families of five or more sleep in small shanties built with scrap wood, metal sheets, and broken bricks. The harsh conditions make it nearly impossible for the people of Baja to provide their families with the basic need for shelter.
During the last two weeks in July we're taking some of our KSBJ staff and listeners to Baja, Mexico to participate in an actual build. But even if you can't be there physically, we're asking you to GIVE along with us, by donating to make these homes possible. Each home is equipped with 3 rooms, a loft, durable construction, and electricity! The full expense for one home is an estimated $6,000 and our goal is to build a minimum of two homes with your help. We want to sponsor and build a home on each Baja mission trip, July 17-24 and July 24-31.
We hope you'll join us through your prayers and donations towards these homes.
Mexico City has 1,900,000 underprivileged and street children. 240,000 of these are abandoned children and homeless. (Action International Ministries)
Some 20% of the children survive by begging, 24% by selling goods, & others by doing subcontracting work
8-11 million children under the age of 15 years are working in Mexico. (US Dept of Labor, Sweat and Toil of Children, 1994, citing US Dept of State, Human Rights Report, 1993)
Within the estimated 25.2 million people living in rural Mexico, 57 percent live in poverty and 28 percent live in extreme poverty.
Numerous Mexico Baja families live in cardboard shanties close to the dumps.
Global Expeditions has built homes for families in Baja of 11 family members who called an abandoned car their home.
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